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Today I had my group crit – only half the class was in attendance. I received a lot of constructive criticism – some of the comments that really hit hard included one person’s belief that I wasn’t fulfilling my role as an artist to render the experience due to too much randomness and not enough [...]
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Tony Clennell sent me a link to Heidi Kreitchet, one of his former grad buddies from Utah State. I had been thinking of taking the work to a more guttural place. This is my first attempt for the salt kiln. I plan on pushing it further for the wood firings. Soul can be a wooly [...]
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I had made three cone 6 sculptures on the racks – and had spent over a week ruminating on how I wanted to finish them. I had tested a number of glazes and decided upon a metallic series – a decision that was cemented when I saw Greg Payce’s series of three vases in a [...]
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Greg Payce from ACADU came to Sheridan today and gave a few of us 20 minutes of his critique. What struck me was how quickly Greg tuned into my wavelength – probing me with questions that I needed to know the answers to, like “why that type of shape”? and encouraging me to challenge the [...]
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When Linda Sormin did a brief crit with me two weeks ago she said that she had a feeling that I wasn’t finished with the agate-ware like that of the piece I completed at Metchosin that is up in the gallery at Sheridan at the moment. She was right. I started playing – first with [...]
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Proud to trumpet the fact that a couple of my maru (circle) sculptures were selected by the heads of the Crafts & Design departments to accompany the OUTSTANDING work of the Furniture studio students’ Sheridan display booth at this year’s Interior Design Show at the Metro Convention Centre. For info and tickets check out IDS2012. [...]
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I submitted my images to the National Potters’ Council at the last minute and was selected as October on the Member’s Sculpture Calendar! Check it out here
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Well – almost unanimous – hate the room temperature paint. OK – but not giving up – might try feathering, might try less obvious colours. People don’t like pink – lots of associations and baggage. The dry ash piece was the most successful for people - largely as it achieved a “lift off” and ascension [...]
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Ever since I saw Karen Haris’ dry ash frame come out of the kiln, I’ve known I wanted to try it for my sculpture. On Thursday I painstakingly brush painted my piece on the structure on which it was bisqued – Gord suggested kiln wash in layers under where it was touching (better to put [...]
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I headed out today with the intention of getting to the 80 Spadina group show featuring Julie Moon’s work. I walked to Dovercourt and Queen and popped in on Craft City – it was a madhouse, but I zero’d in on Julie Moon’s work, and went and introduced myself and had a great connection with [...]
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