How can it be March already? After concentrating on getting tiles and lots of Raiders' plates fired recently I am now trying to catch up on making lots of my own work. There are jugbirds to be made but I have to confess that the idea of painting the new plate shape myself was rather intriguing. So I have been applying colours without having a planned…
The last two artists who painted plates for the Western Front's Gala Auction are WF resident and founding member Eric Metcalfe and WF curator Jacquelyn Ross. Eric, of course, organizes these 'Raids' to Port Moody and invites the artists. But this time he decided to let the other four come out without him, and Jacquie, although invited to participate in the 'Six' had to be…
Today 5 Vancouver artists came here for the day to paint plates and platters I'd made for them. Paul Mathieu brought along two platters he'd painted last time to show us how they have been finished with outlines in silver lustre. I'll just show those two first and make a second blog of photos of artists painting next. Paul had painted bone dry plates with…
A perfect day to be in the studio - rainy but not cold. Once again Eric Metcalfe arranged for a group to come out to Port Moody to paint plates. Monique Fouquet was the driver for Eric and Paul Mathieu. Plates requested were a yellow and a grey for Eric, two white for Monique and two larger white platters for Paul so I made them…
Last Thursday I opened the glaze kiln so I had some new plates, jug birds and mugs for ArtWalk. And finally the plates painted by my visiting artists Eric Metcalfe, Allyson Clay, Monique Fouquet and Eli Bornowsky were finished. Al took these photos and the artists seem pleased with the results. I make them by slumping a slab of red earthenware clay into my wheel-thrown…