I fired my kiln with only a partial load this week because I can’t keep the airport Crafthouse shop waiting any longer. This afternoon Alan took photos of the latest work to emerge.

There are two pieces by Eric Metcalfe using a new bold combination of turquoise, red and black on Naples yellow. They’re quite striking! He’ll be donating the large platter to the Western Front for a presentation.

My jugbirds are my standard size and designs, photographed many times, but always slightly different. I’ll choose 12 assorted from these and three others already fired – an eagle, a robin and a green job and take them out to YVR tomorrow.

At the opening of the latest show at Port Moody Arts Centre last night Zoe, Agata and I were discussing drawing and as usual I confessed to not exercising my drawing muscles often enough. Zoe made the suggestion that I draw around my photos and writing on my blog. How I wish I could. In the days when we wrote letters home from boarding school every Sunday I filled the space around my writing with drawings. Already I had decided that I’d be an artist when I grew up. Any ideas how one could add random (not iPad or scanned drawings that would still appear as a rectangle) sketches and doodles in this system?

Incidentally the show this month at PMAC features the instructors. There are drawings, paintings, fibre art and lots of ceramics. I enjoyed fine paintings by Agata Teodorowicz and clay work by Clive Tucker (look up!), Pauline Doyle and Otto Kemansek (this year’s resident clay artist). Do check it out.