I've been noticing the quietly elegant mugs, teapots and pouring vessels made by Sarah Pike for a while. The pieces are well-thought-out and uncomplicated. At first I thought they were wheel-thrown, but no, they are all fabricated with slabs, impressed stamps and hand-built additions. Her glaze palette is restrained and remind one of the ancient rocks in her surrounding environment in Fernie, BC. On my…
Back in the early seventies Alan and I bought our first and only jade plant from the window of a Chinese restaurant in Vancouver. Believe it or not we still have said plant and several of its offspring. Every year I take them outside for the summer so that they can enjoy shade, fresh air and some attention. They survive the winter grudgingly on a…
This is the second of two blogs on the new show at West Vancouver Museum. The previous one showed some of Sally Michener's sculptures. In this one I am posting work by Tam Irving. I first met Tam when he was long-time president of the BC Potters' Guild. It was a comfortable fit for him and for us in the clay community because the…
I've been looking forward to attending the opening of the current show at West Vancouver Museum for quite a while. Burnaby Mountain resident Dorothy Doherty and I drove the roughly one hour to West Vancouver and found the museum in a charming stone house. The museum's mission is to promote art, design and culture, and not, as I had slightly expected, to showcase local history.…
Four of us decided to travel in to Vancouver and Burnaby together last Thursday evening. That way we only needed one parking spot on Granville Island. June MacDonald drove Ysabella Choung, Dorothy Doherty and me. Dorothy and I have pieces in the Gallery of BC Ceramics's current member show 'Testing.. Testing 123' and we met up with Keith and Celia Rice-Jones as we entered. They…