What a fine way to spend a 75th Birthday! Last year it happened to be Eric's birthday when a 'raid' was scheduled and he decided that passing the day with like-minded artist friends was what he'd like to do again. I had opened the glaze kiln on Saturday so there was a collection of all the plates from July's raid all ready for the 'raiders' today.…
Here are some photos from last Wednesday's 'Raid'. Mina, Renée, Monique and Eric were deep in concentration, painting their plates. Again, we enjoyed our lunch out on the deck. What could be nicer? I wasn't about to start anything new before I leave on Tuesday but was happy to help Renée make a large dish/platter from a found…
I managed to get the latest batch of work dried, bisqued, glazed and fired again in spite of the recent heat and opened the kiln yesterday. So I was able to let Eric Metcalfe and Monique Fouquet have their work from the last raid today when those two artists and also Mina Totino and Renee van Halm were here for another busy creative day. Eric had…
Three 'raiders' were here yesterday. This time Eric was joined by Renée Van Halm and Monique Fouquet. Alan was over in Victoria to be the External Examiner at a thesis defence at UVic so there were just four of us to have lunch together here. While I worked on getting a couple of jugbirds painted with my usual slips Eric painted his oval plates with underglazes. I had…
I asked local potter Pauline Doyle to help me to lift the shelves into my kiln on Tuesday. The glazing had gone well but I knew that loading the fairly heavy shelves into the kiln would be silly. How lucky am I that the Port Moody Arts Centre where Pauline happened to be working that day is only two blocks away? Thanks Pauline for giving…