Our speaker at last night's monthly meeting of TriCity Potters was Mary Fox. We are lucky she was in town from Ladysmith delivering work to her new gallery on Robson Street, Vancouver. Stewart Stephenson Modern Art Gallery opens on December 12th. http://stewartstephenson.com Mary had to wait a while before starting her presentation as we needed to make sure members had all the information about the…
For our final meeting before the Summer break the TriCity Potters were asked to bring in their favourite moulds, stamps and materials they use to give texture to their clay surfaces. I think that it was a useful sharing of ideas and a marvellous opportunity to discuss what we've found or have been shown over the years. Several people showed their homemade stamps and we…
Last Wednesday was the final meeting of the year for TriCity Potters. We were pleased to have about 15 people there seeing it was also the actual Stanley Cup final game. But as it turned out those who came don't particularly care for hockey and we were all better off not watching Vancouver's debacle and the shenanigans afterwards. To celebrate our first four years in…
It's a rainy day today so I'm not tempted to be out in the garden. My clay work began with my inserting spouts in the 4 earthenware jugbirds I threw on Saturday. They'll firm up overnight. Then I threw some candle-holders to reaquaint myself with how I used to do that. Wednesday's TriCity Potters' meeting will focus on the making, either by throwing or hand-building,…
TriCity Potters' meetings are held at 7pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Port Moody Senior High School 300 Albert St, Port Moody, BC V3H 2M5 All are welcome to attend. Tomorrow's presenter is Rob Bush. The information below is taken from our newsletter. Thanks as ever Linda for getting the word out to members - in spite of having spent the weekend at…