Thrown

My friend Ron recently sent me this book, Thrown, British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries.  It's worth looking at if you're interested in Leach/Hamada and their influence on Canadian West Coast ceramic practice during the '50's, '60's and '70's (and to the present!).  It's a collection of essays inspired by the show of the same name at the Belkin Gallery in Vancouver in 2005.  It's well written and heavily illustrated, including lots of photos from the time.

And here's a photo of one of Ron's beautiful pouring bowls.

Recent visitors to the studio

We recently had a huge mama moose and her rather large offspring wander down the driveway and past the studio. Needless to say, they were wild about the work!

Mixing Clay

Every year we mix this giant vat of clay in our horse watering trough. It's a lot of heavy work but for half a days work we get about 1500 lbs of clay that's ready to use in 2-3 weeks. Rankin & Ruggles were kind enough to send me instuctions for the drying racks and for the mixing. I'll gladly pass these on to anyone who's interested.