I bisque and glaze-fired these plates shortly after the last Raid but I seem to have had a number of special events that I wanted to record since then. There was Circle Craft Christmas Market, the soda firing, its opening and then my work. But the Raiders are anxious to see the results of their painting day so finally, here they are. First up is…
August kiln load On the last day of August I was finally able to unload glazed pots from the kiln. The plates painted by 'The Raiders' the other day helped to fill it, along with the dozen jugbirds I'd made and stored damp since May! Covid and holiday travels kept me from the studio.I'll post photos of plates painted by my guests first, and below…
Yesterday was the day we finally hosted another 'Raid'. Vancouver artists used to 'raid' my studio several times a year, before Covid, but last year we had just one gathering in September. Now we decided that Eric's 82nd birthday would be a perfect day to get together again. The weather forecast was for a slightly cooler day, so we felt that if we worked with…
I had an interesting email request the other day. Woojae Kim, a Vancouver resident who is currently a grad student at Bard College in NY state, asked me about finding local clay in Port Moody. Somehow he had found a blog which mentioned that I had found clay near our home in old Port Moody. Two stories here: In the first our house was very…
This latest glaze firing was just a mixture of whatever I had made during August. I knew I needed to get some more jugbirds made, I started on orders for teeny plates, I threw with marbled clay and I made a selection of blue things.. just because. With the Raiders' plates I had the kiln filled. Blue plates? I really wanted to make another…