I can't resist a challenge so when I read that the Potters Guild of BC were hosting a one-day show of plates during the Canadian Ceramics Symposium I needed to quickly make a dinner plate. Having already made enough pots to fill my reserved two cubic feet of space in the soda firing I decided to experiment with sgraffito again and booked a space in…
During 2022 I've been following the news about firings in the Potters' Guild of BC gas kiln. Funding was secured and the current board purchased a big Bailey kiln from Emily Carr U. Thanks to the enthusiastic manager of the Mergatroid Artists Studio building, Morley Faber, it has now been installed on a levelled, covered concrete pad next to the building. Technicians have been trained,…
Our Sunshine Coast Art Crawl continued with a short drive down into the village of Roberts Creek. There we parked beside Gumboot Restaurant and took a stroll down to the ocean. I wanted Linda to see the community Mandala. Local people re-paint it every year. After a very good lunch, sitting outside at the Gumboot Restaurant (the Gumboot café had no sandwiches!) we resumed our…