On our way into Vancouver last Saturday we stopped off at Gardenworks for a trellis and a few more plants. I was able to get some planted on Sunday but since then it has rained continuously so the last two plants are having to wait. We're told that this June is shaping up to be a record for rain and cold. So I'm glad we…
What a relief to open the kiln this morning and find that all the work is bright and buttery smooth! I was firing plates painted by Paul Mathieu, Monique Fouquet and Eric Metcalfe as well as my own work and dishes and tiles painted by my niece and great-niece when they were here from Texas. Here are the plates, all made of white earthenware this…
A perfect day to be in the studio - rainy but not cold. Once again Eric Metcalfe arranged for a group to come out to Port Moody to paint plates. Monique Fouquet was the driver for Eric and Paul Mathieu. Plates requested were a yellow and a grey for Eric, two white for Monique and two larger white platters for Paul so I made them…
Last night I took sky train from Lougheed Town Centre to Granville station and emerged on Dunsmuir Street. Satellite Gallery is at 560 Seymour street, just nearby. I took the elevator up one floor and was just in time to say hello to fellow potters and take a seat before curator Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo introduced speaker Paul Mathieu at 6pm. To see the invitation and read…
From the BC Potters Guild newsletter, for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9th. PANEL DISCUSSION: "THROWN", Vancouver MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The North-West Ceramics Society is pleased to be sponsoring a special panel discussion on the exhibition and subsequent catalogue "Thrown: British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries" published by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia. "Thrown" was recently reviewed…