Remind me not to plan a trip to Cambridge on a Monday! On the last Monday of our European holiday Al and I lumped my pots from South London onto the train to Cambridge to keep an appointment with Jeremy Waller of Primavera Gallery. Trouble is, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Cambridge Archaeology Museum and Kettle's Yard Gallery are all closed on a Monday. …
After the last gathering of 'Raiders' (Vancouver artists) here in my studio on August 22nd I could see that their painted plates would fill my kiln for the glaze firing at least twice. Some pieces needed to be bisque-fired one more time to burn off wax applied to resist underglaze so that took up some room. But my top priority for the first firing…
After the busy Friday evening of Shuffle in Port Moody I was pleased to relax over the weekend. Friends dropped by on both days to see my display before I cleared up the space for it to become a studio again. But on Monday morning I packed ten good jugbirds into a wine box and trundled out to Vancouver Airport. Several weeks…
For the last few weeks I've been focussing on the goal of getting a small flock of jugbirds ready for Crafthouse YVR and preparing for Port Moody's 'Shuffle'. Last Wednesday I opened the kiln and was pleased to find that my thirteen jugbirds had fired well, so ten were put aside and tomorrow I'll pop out to Vancouver Airport with them.…
The most recent Raiders to my studio have had to wait a few weeks to see the results of their painting day. I needed to finish a special order for the end of the month. As it turned out the kiln was perfectly full, with nothing left out. So here are the plates from Mina, Michelle and Pierre (see my…