Today’s blog includes notes on pots, the garden and a reminder to TriCity potters to bring a pot for ‘Show and Tell’.

Here it is half-way through June and I’m finding myself often distracted and not getting to my studio. The garden is growing apace, with glorious flowers and less-glorious weeds competing for my attention. The delphiniums are, as usual, astonishingly blue.

For our upcoming TriCity Potters’ meeting this Wednesday I have suggested members bring along something ceramic and tell the story of its creation or aquisition. We’d like to see something splendid or interesting, or a piece that isn’t quite what the artist intended and discuss ways it could be improved. I do hope you’ll all put some thought into which pot or sculpture you’d like to show us. It always makes for an interesting exchange. Perhaps I’ll keep which pot I’ll bring a secret for now.

A visiting friend admired the Dandy Digger Bird that I’d made for the Burnaby part of ‘World Bird Art Installation Day’ and I gave it to her. Here is a photo she sent me of DDB in his new home.

I’ve finished my stoneware pieces for the July salt firing. The photo here shows some of them just after I’ve sprayed them with slips and removed the masking latex. That’s the little pile in front. As soon as I have some earthenware pieces to fill the next kiln I’ll get them bisqued.

So with that in mind I managed to get nine more jugbird bodies thrown and their spouts extruded. I have several patient people waiting for birds and I need to make a selection to take to Primavera, in Cambridge later this year.