Four of us decided to travel in to Vancouver and Burnaby together last Thursday evening. That way we only needed one parking spot on Granville Island. June MacDonald drove Ysabella Choung, Dorothy Doherty and me. Dorothy and I have pieces in the Gallery of BC Ceramics's current member show 'Testing.. Testing 123' and we met up with Keith and Celia Rice-Jones as we entered. They…
Members of the BC Potters' Guild have been invited to submit work for a September show which will illustrate parts of the artist's process. Potters need to know so much about the huge variety of ways of working with clay. Starting with hand-building or wheel-throwing, the potter then needs to understand ways of finishing their work, whether with the use of slips, underglazes and glazes, or…
My usual Woodpecker jugbirds are the right colours but I decided that I'd like to try to replicate the long neck and broad shoulders of the real bird. So I recently threw parts for said project, including two tubes to be his feet - just to see how that would work out. The photo shows the pieces, plus bodies for two…
I like sharing the space in my kiln with all those painted plates. It means that I can fire however many of my pieces are ready without wasting electricity or waiting until I have made enough to fill the kiln. Last week I added Bill Thomson's large plate for a re-fire and then when all the packing was done I found that I had one…
My local galleries have been neglected lately so I'm pleased to have fired another group of jugbirds in with all the plates painted by my 'Raiders'. Most of the birds will be delivered to the Gallery of BC Ceramics and to Circle Craft Co-op this week and I'll drop off the plates at Eric's home in the Western Front. But taking the time to go in to town is…