Read more about the article My SHUFFLE
Art shows / Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery / pottery studio visits / Soda Firing

My SHUFFLE

Port Moody's version of a Culture Crawl/ArtWalk, our SHUFFLE, happened last night. We worried as the marvellous volunteers brought signs and a feather flag, in the rain, but the skies cleared for the duration of the Shuffle. TriCity potter Jade turned up in the afternoon with baby Jet and filled my bird vase with tall flowers from my garden. They really lent a festive air…

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June 15th, 2024
Read more about the article Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024
Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery / pottery studio visits / Soda Firing

Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024

Deadlines are good! I booked myself in to join a soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's Vault kiln on May 22nd. So, at the beginning of May, I cleaned the red earthenware out of my wheel and started work with Plainsman H555 and Georgie's Umpqua cone 10 stoneware clay. I made my two cubic feet quota of ware, including carved bowls, jugbirds and more, and bisque-fired…

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May 26th, 2024
Read more about the article TriCity Potters in JingdeZhen
l to r Hannah, Kay, Grace, Carlene & Eliza
pottery / pottery studio visits / presentations / travel / TriCity Potters / workshop

TriCity Potters in JingdeZhen

Fourteen years ago, in October of 2010, five members of TriCity Potters spent an amazing two weeks in JingdeZhen, the famous porcelain-production city in China. Last Wednesday these intrepid potters, Grace Siu, Carlene Akester, Kay Bonathan, Hannah Chan and Eliza Wang, presented their experience there to us and then spoke a little about how the residency has influenced their own work. Kay introduced the five,…

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April 24th, 2024
Read more about the article Our Crawl
G Lohan sculptures
Art shows / local pottery shows / pottery / pottery studio visits / Vancouver Art

Our Crawl

The weather was perfect for this year's Eastside Culture Crawl, with no rain or snow. Alan and I chose to drive in to Vancouver on Friday evening to begin crawling. The annual Visual Arts, Design and Crafts Festival is now enormous so we made a list of studios to visit on our first planned crawl for this year. I had hoped to post my blog…

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November 22nd, 2023
Read more about the article West Country days
Salty pots on the top shelves
English Pottery / Family / Gillian's work / pottery / pottery studio visits / Salt Firing

West Country days

Let's see if I can complete the accounts of my English holiday with this blog. I had just three days to spend with my sister Mary, enjoy Salisbury again, see some friends and find another potter. On the Monday I'd arranged to have lunch with my god-daughter Amanda and her husband Clive. Their new home is Mallard House so of course I needed to make a…

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November 7th, 2023