Earlier this year Vancouver sculptor Debra Sloan was an artist-in-residence at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives. Debra has taught pottery and sculpture for many years and can certainly make pots on the wheel, but she did not make Leach-inspired pots while she was in Cornwall. It turns out that Bernard Leach did in fact make clay sculpture as well as his writings, wheel-throwing and…
The current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics 'Put a Bird On It' is open to all BC Potters' Guild members. The slightly fanciful title of the show refers to a quotation from the popular TV show, Portlandia. I gather that it's an often mentioned suggestion for marketing! But it has allowed us to produce slightly silly creations for this show. Certainly it seemed…
Opening the kiln the other day was, as usual, rather exciting. Not only did it contain the tiles painted by TriCity Potters but there were a dozen of my jugbirds in it too. The freshly mixed glaze behaved properly. I set the end 'soak' for 30 mins this time to try to make sure there were no bubbles from the melting, and no, there weren't.…
This is just a quick little blog to wish you all a happy Christmas day, wherever you are and however you celebrate it. I like to go for a walk and find pretty Wintery berries and evergreens to make a little decoration. When we were children in Shroton I remember being taken to Everley corner to pick masses of holly to take to the church…
When I was in the Gallery of BC Ceramics last week I had no idea that Kinichi Shigeno's show was coming down the next day! The members' sale was on the Thursday and I believe the plan is to use all the gallery space for a Christmas display until the end of the year. I took some photos of Kinichi's show so if you didn't…