'Contemporary embroidered textiles on the related themes of sailing, navigation and weather'. Bettina Matzkuhn is an embroiderer. She is a painter with fabric, linens and threads. I wondered how she would fill The ACT/Maple Ridge Art Gallery with embroideries so I chose to take myself out to Maple Ridge to see her show, on the Saturday afternoon when she was scheduled to give an…
I didn't go to the Saturday opening of the Fraser Valley Potters' show at Maple Ridge Art Gallery. We had a young man here tidying up our 100-yr-old cedar tree and removing low branches. It was too tempting to stay here and take advantage of an unusual dry day, watch Brian up the tree and putz around arranging bricks next to my garden. Al tackled…
Finally we had some sunshine today - no warmth! But it is cheering not to be looking at rain or even hail. A full bisque kiln load turned itself off around lunch time so I spent a happy afternoon working in my studio on those things you don't want to do when pots need work. I mixed up a batch of wadding and 'Yellow Salt'…
Tonight June MacDonald and I plan to drive out to Maple Ridge for this year's Fraser Valley Potters Guild jurying evening. For many years Fraser Valley PG has been the only local guild to host an annual members' show for which they bring in an outside juror. It is always an interesting exhibition of the multitude of processes we all use. Galleries around the Fraser…