Here are some photos taken at last night's Opening at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. This month's show is titled 'Celebration' and it marks sixty years since the BC Potters Guild was formed. I have to admit being a member back in the early seventies, but I am not a founding member! Current members were invited to submit up to three pieces to the show…
On Wednesday I was able to empty a very full kiln load. My pieces were on the top shelf and all the lower shelves were filled with twenty plates painted by my recent 'raiders'. In the next day or two I'll post nice photos Al took in our light box of all the work. Yesterday I packed up all the plates and took them in…
When I was in the Gallery of BC Ceramics today to buy two more tickets to Saturday's BC Potters' Guild 60th Anniversary Dinner I was able to have a preview of the current show. The four BC clay artists who will be the featured presenters at 'Dig This' on Saturday at Shadbolt Centre have been invited to show some of their work on Granville Island…
There were seven of my jugbirds in that firing of all the plates. As Don Hutchinson and I chatted at the opening of 'Two for Joy' I asked him how he could be giving up making pottery after all these years. But after a career teaching at Langara and then continuing as a partner in Bob Kingsmill's pottery shop for another decade after that,…
Keith Lehman and Carole Henshall are an item, have shared a studio and a home, are both potters and are in fact, married. They've worked together for Craft Fairs, as a team when it's their turn to staff the Kingsmill Pottery shop and side by side in their shared studio space behind the Gallery of BC Ceramics, on Granville Island. But this is the first time…