My recent kiln firing included work by four TriCity Potters and Burnaby artist Bill Thomson. Felicia Hsieh usually works in cone 10 stoneware at Shadbolt Centre and has had her work fired in their reduction gas kiln and in the salt/soda kiln there. So her day with earthenware was a new experience for her. She worked very carefully, using two red earthenware oval plates, applying…
I extended an invitation to TriCity Potters to join me in my studio last Saturday. Last year we had such fun. Only four friends were free to come this time but actually it was just fine, with lots of plates, tiles and space. On Thursday Linda Lebrun and Gay Mitchell came here to use my slab roller to make lots of plates and 6" tiles…
Ray Tse is this year's Ceramic Artist in Residence at Port Moody Arts Centre. In return for a small studio and use of all the equipment and materials in the ceramics department Ray will be invited to do some teaching and be available to supervise and help at Clay Drop-in sessions. In addition he will be invited to have a solo show in the 3D…
Our guest at Wednesday's monthly meeting of TriCity Potters was Linda Doherty. We had a full agenda because it was time for our AGM and we had also asked members to bring in their completed flower pot donations. I have known Linda for a great many years and have always admired her gas-fired production work. I was one of the proof-readers when she, Carol Mayer and Deborah…
Recently Keith and Celia Rice-Jones approached TriCity Potters with an idea for a workshop. They proposed bringing a large selection of their private collection of pots to us with the intention of using them for a discussion of their form, function and process. Our members had been asking for a workshop to jumpstart creative energy for the Fall potting season so together with Port Moody…