Last Wednesday Al and I went in to Vancouver. I had made a late-afternoon appointment to drop off a new selection of work at Circle Craft. If you pop in there you'll see that I left jolly earthenware jugbirds and several special soda pieces. Before going down to Granville Island we stopped in at Pulp Fiction Books so that I could deliver the 'Constructivist Yunomi'…
I booked myself a glazing spot for noon at the Potters Guild of BC gas kiln last Saturday. Four pots were already glazed in my studio so it didn't take long to dip the last one in the guild's Malcolm Davis shino. It seems stupid to join the firing for so few pots but I fancied a Vancouver day anyway. Next Saturday I'll see how…
Kate Metten is a potter and a painter. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art & Design in 2017 and has recently completed an apprenticeship with Vancouver clay artist Gailan Ngan. Her studio pottery is finely thrown and meticulously glazed in quiet colours. But when she has joined the Raiders here in my studio she has taken the opportunity to paint abstract designs on…