Nov 2011 • COMING November 19-20-21: The Audubon Society's "Wild Arts Festival" at Montgomary Park, Portland, OR
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Oct 2011 • Tree Show in Hood River • Childhood's End Gallery in Olympia
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August 2011 • Show in Olympia ...AND "First Ever Batik Raku Workshop" at our home/workshop!
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July 2011 • Excellent Raku Event at Clay Art Center, then Sarah flew to Africa...
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June 2011• June Show at Cannon Beach, Hood River, Wallowas trip
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Feb 2011 • February TV show still online, another peaceful month
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Otherwise life at the ole pottery shop has been peaceful and productive preparing for our March show at local gallery in Camas, WA, opening First Friday Mar. 4 (5-8pm), come visit us!
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| White Bird Gallery show July-August | Childhood's End show Aug-Sept | "Batik Raku" triptych, each tile about 12" square |
July-August, we delivered solo exhibits to galleries in Cannon Beach, OR and Olympia, WA. Each show - of about 25 to 30 pieces - includes our classical raku work and new directions. Mid-August Boni finally had gall bladder surgery after two years on a strict low-fat diet which didn't prevent frequent painful attacks, it is great not to worry. |
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| Clay Art Center annual July event | Dave throwing demo | Boni demos surface design | Raku firing | another pot into reduction barrel | Many successful pieces! |
Annual raku glazing and firing event at Clay Art Center in Tacoma, WA. Another sunny fun day full of different glazing and firing opportunities. Many fine raku pieces, and some we will try to improve techniques on, next year! From beginners to professionals, I think most everyone had a some good successes! |
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| Hmm, what do we see | Looking at one another | One of our new pottery shop tenants | cute lil rodent |
Couldn't resist photographing the new visitors to our pottery studio. They're inside, looking out. At one point TWO OF THEM stuck their heads out of the knot hole simultaneously! However, I could get only one to pose.
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| Our little home in the woods | Dave demos throwing | Centering clay for a large platter | Pulling "Heron urn" from hot kiln | Lowering urn into reduction barrel | Dave, Boni & fired urn |
Lower Columbia Community college pottery students visit our humble abode. (Thanks to Sandy Brown, who took a lot of super photos!)
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| Dave's veggies for breakfast.... mmm! | ROUGH booth sketch in the making | Boni rubs ferns into clay |
Ceramic Showcase at OCC |
Less than a week to go! (to Ceramic Showcase) I painted new pedestals and repainted our wall display in Mom's garage. Gr'Ma & Michael figured a unique and thrifty way to save our rug. Dave upped production: he has me doing leaf-rubbing, latexing, shading, leaf stenciling. I need to price, and pack pots and stuff for our booth.
Am doing a visual inventory in Adobe Illustrator, it's pretty fun, and easy to see how pieces will look in our booth. Drawing booth, pedestals, pots and wall pieces -- much easier moving em around on the screen than real life -- some of our pots are huge like rearranging furniture.
We're trying to work lots but not get too tired or sick. We keep up morning walks/runs and Dave makes wonderful veggie breakfasts. Hope we get enough sleep to feel perky greeting people at our booth. Good friends are praying all goes well, and that's the best!
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| our booth 2009 | B draws on platter |
Raku notecards |
D cuts firewood today |
Countdown... a month til Ceramic Showcase at Oregon Convention Center. Tons of preparation for a 3-day show. Our 20-foot wide booth space (!) will need extra lights, pedestals, rugs... AND lots of good raku pieces! Details about the show on our Shows page, and on the official OPA Ceramic Showcase site.
Besides scrounging firewood, Dave is working hard throwing pots. Today I'm drawing herons on large wall-platters, assembling raku notecards, starting new "coffee theme" pieces, and designing business cards. (Is your list also longer than what gets done?)
B. H. Gallery exhibit
Our new show is successfully launched! 30 pieces are exhibited at a beautiful place with gracious people. I fell in love with Vashon, an artsy island in Puget Sound. We've lived in the same place forever, but if we move, this island's on my list (and Michael's land on Big Island!)
Opening night at Blue Heron Gallery was perfect! Well displayed, well attended, good food and wine, a fun jazz trio, several sales, and some friends new and old. What more could we ask? Blue Heron Gallery is part of Vashon Allied Arts, a non-profit organization with a theater, galleries, dance, classes, and all kinds of events. Vashon Island is a short ferry boat ride from Seattle or Tacoma.
The show is up through March 25. A variety of sizes and forms, and different firing techniques are included: traditional raku, saggar-fired pieces, naked raku pieces, and a large platter done with what I call "batik raku."
The "ARTSY COUPLE" on our home page, true identity: our friends Jude and Lindsy Larson of Fox Island. Good to see you guys!
