Monday was my day to deliver new work to Circle Craft shop and the Gallery of BC Ceramics. At the latter I was pleased to find the Alberta Potters’ show ‘Wide Open’.

While this show of small work travels to several locations in BC our ‘BC in a Box’ show is being shown in Red Deer and Medicine Hat, Alberta. I think their potters may have had a slightly larger box that the work had to fit in than we did – or is that an illusion?

The theme ‘Wide Open’ can convey the openness of prairie landscape, but also it may simply have meant that artists had a ‘wide open’ theme to work on.Certainly there is a large variety of methods, firings and ideas to be seen. I photographed the pieces that for one reason or another appealed to me. In some cases I was lucky enough to have met the artists in Medicine Hat last year and others I like because they celebrate Alberta and some just because they’re unusual and they work. Sorry I couldn’t document all the pieces. To avoid labels wandering too far from their image I’ll put the rest on the next blog.