Alan and I took the ferry over to Victoria last Wednesday. Al has packed up lots of his archaeological material and was ready to deliver the boxes to the Royal BC Museum as the repository. I had completed a group of jugbirds for a new gallery (for me). Vijaya at Eclectic Gallery in Oak Bay had seen my work, found me through my website and…
Of course we had to find the studios of Wayne Ngan, Heinz Laffin and Gerhard Kozel. I think we first visited Wayne and Heinz on a camping trip to Hornby Island in the early seventies. There are two potteries on Ostby Road, north of the Co-op. First, on the right, we found the studio shared by Heinz Laffin, Gerhard Kozel and Mette Wullum. Just as…
My pots for Wednesday's salt firing are all wadded and packed into boxes ready for the drive out to Abbotsford tomorrow to load the kiln with Dave Dobie and Herman Venema. Nora Vaillant drove out here today with her mother Judy (who is holidaying in Vancouver from her home in hot Arizona) to leave her pieces for the firing. This will save her one of…