Only three artists came out to paint the other day. I invited them to help fill my kiln and as usual it was a productive day. While Sally Clay, Katie Lyle and Eric Metcalfe concentrated on their plates I was busy getting my jugbirds painted. Katie had asked for a large platter this time and she spent all day making sure the…
One of the four February artists visiting my studio was Sally Clay. After she had painted a regular oval plate Sally chose to paint this spherical vase. I had thrown it for her some time ago and, like the plates, it was bone-dry. On the whole these visiting painters tend to ignore the shape of the plate or the rim and take colour across these…
Last Thursday I opened the glaze kiln so I had some new plates, jug birds and mugs for ArtWalk. And finally the plates painted by my visiting artists Eric Metcalfe, Allyson Clay, Monique Fouquet and Eli Bornowsky were finished. Al took these photos and the artists seem pleased with the results. I make them by slumping a slab of red earthenware clay into my wheel-thrown…
Before and after the crazy few days of NCECA I made some simple oval slab plates again. Last Thursday 4 artists came out to Port Moody to spend the day painting said plates. It was really a lot of fun. Eric Metcalfe had again initiated the visit, bringing along previous guests, his ex-student Eli Bornowsky and Allyson Clay (Sally). The new guest was retired ECUAD…
The tight schedule for the last week seems to have paid off. A week ago I spent the day frantically applying terra sigillata to the bases of all my pots. With the plates painted by those artists on the previous Thursday there were 43 pieces to cook. On Monday I had my flu shot and then spent all afternoon unloading warm pots, waxing, glazing and…