Posts from the ‘Process Journal’ Category
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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Ayumi Horie spent two days at Sheridan this week. I got to hang with her at the Gardiner and the ROM – we spent some time trying to find a pre-Columbian pot that she’d seen 15 years ago that she wanted to revisit, and headed for the bat cave. I learned a lot about “being” [...]
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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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Yesterday Nurielle, Ali and I went to Alfred. It was overwhelming. The place reminds me a lot of UNB, in my hometown, but it’s a village, and the enormity and pervasiveness of ceramics felt a bit suffocating. It’s really a lot like Sheridan only five times as big – five times as many studio spaces, [...]
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Today when I had my one on one with Ying-Yueh I really felt that another layer of the onion came flying off … all of a sudden I could see the possibilities of what I’m trying to achieve in large-scale and multiples and in gallery spaces in ways that just a few weeks ago I [...]
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Growing up in the Maritimes, my family spent many summers camping, and I spent many hours begging to stop to see one more artists clay studios. I still have a collection of 10 miniature pots that I collected from the ages of 5 to 12. Life has a way of unfolding in its own time, and it took me thirty years to realize that clay was my ultimate calling.
Three years ago, it hit me like a thunderbolt. Click here to read Heidi's Story. Two years ago I went to India for three months of intensive skill development at the Andretta Residency and in the spring of 2010 I began in earnest my new life as a creative artist. I am currently studying at Sheridan College.