I booked myself a glazing spot for noon at the Potters Guild of BC gas kiln last Saturday. Four pots were already glazed in my studio so it didn't take long to dip the last one in the guild's Malcolm Davis shino. It seems stupid to join the firing for so few pots but I fancied a Vancouver day anyway. Next Saturday I'll see how…
This was the day to make a final delivery of pots to Circle Craft to top up my stock there before Christmas. I had a drop-off appointment for 2.30pm. We woke to two inches of wet snow and I don't relish driving in that, but it was melting and I risked it. It was sleeting when I stopped off at the Western Front to deliver…
A Circle Craft customer requested a Stellar's Jay jugbird and a Crow so my version of each were in my recent earthenware firing. There is already lots of my work in the Granville Island Co-op shop but staff said they'd like these two brought in. The sun began to emerge so I opted to drive in to town and give myself a change of scenery.…
With encouragement from staff at the Gallery of BC Ceramics I have made some bird mugs. Earlier this year I made a few mugs which were not any specific bird, just a jolly combination of greens with white chest and red spots. They have a little beak which is not a spout but otherwise take just as long to make and paint as my jugbirds do. I wondered…
When I was in Circle Craft Co-op last Wednesday I saw that Friederike Rahn had just finished setting up a display of work by those Shadbolt Centre instructors and staff who have fired their work in the wood and soda kilns there. Last Cone Standing is one of many ceramic shows all around the Lower Mainland which have been organized to coincide with the Shadbolt's…