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I have been working for over a year on a project called “The Find”. The job is now done and is parked on my website home page. Free. Enjoy. Share. As you read this, Maureen and I are recalling that some of the work in “The Find” was being packed 50 years ago to this day. We bought our rural Ontario home in the …
Hello again! I hope this finds you well. It has been a while since you heard from me, so I am reporting. Maureen and I are just fine. Being in lockdown in Lonsdale is almost normal. I stopped making ceramics a couple of years ago but have been extremely busy on other projects. More later. We have been a couple …
The tomato paintings are a late thank you. We had a dear friend who decided to grow tomatoes. She grew about 30 old varieties. 600 plants. Tomato Queen was her moniker. All of her friends got as many plants as they wanted to plant for many years. If any were left over, and there were, they were given to raise …
People have been asking me if I am retired. Nope. Never. This is what my friend Shelagh Rogers had to say about my retirement… So retire. No. Making Art yes, and writing yes. Playing pool yes. For the past two and a half years, I have been working on a book. It is a history of 50 years as a …
Happy New Year! It’s been a while, so let’s get caught up. Our last exhibition in Lonsdale was crazy wonderful. We saw old friends that we hadn’t seen in years. Our first art dealers, Pam and David Haight from the Rubaiyat in Calgary dropped in for a peek! Imagine. I did a lot of work on the old blacksmith shop …
I made a series of Rose House vases for next weekend’s Lonsdale Studio Exhibition. To say I had fun is an understatement. What I had planned and what happened are two paths. We live in interesting times.
If you can, save us a little time for a visit here in Lonsdale. Our very last Lonsdale Studio Exhibition is on September 30th and October 1st. I will be in touch closer to those dates, so this is a heads up. I have been working…you might like to see the latest and last.
What a lucky boy I am! Many years ago, Maureen and I were at Larry Davidson’s Lost Horizons nursery near Acton. As we got close to running out of space in our little car, Larry walked over with as many jardinières as he could carry. “Take these off my hands”, he said. He had just retired from being a very …
Maureen and I would like to thank all of you that came out to our Lonsdale Studio Exhibition. It was like old home week! Lovely to see all of you in such fine health. There were certainly some raised eyebrows. Why would anyone want to put a flower in a shoe…and why shoes? When I was a kid, our mother …
The Koffler Arts Center in Toronto had a 20 year retrospective of my work in 1990, called 20/20 Hind Sight. It was curated by Gloria Hickey. Works came from many collectors, and some came from our house. For some reason when my part of the show came back, I put it in storage. I did the same thing earlier with …
Thank you one and all for your support. The opening earlier this month at David Kaye Gallery was packed. We were able to visit with friends that we have not seen in years and met new friends as well. So, thanks again for taking the time to visit, and to view Table Talk with Maureen and me…we loved seeing all …
This is an invitation to you. I am having an exhibition of porcelain at the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto. The exhibition is called Table Talk. I have always cared about what kind of porcelain people put on their tables, over their tables and on the walls near the table. The show is about what happens to my celadon glaze …
I started to work on bas relief or low relief carving before I knew what it was called. A neighbour in Lethbridge taught me the basics of leather carving when I was in Jr. High School. I earned my way through high school and some of art school making ladies purses and wallets. Sixty years later I am still trying …
For some unknown reason, I continue to be a lucky man. On a very hot day this week, this sign was added to the election signs on the roadside right in front of our house. It brought such a breath of fresh air to our village!
Spring in Lonsdale has been lovely. We had a great group of guests for the Spring Exhibition in May, and my thanks go out to all of you for your support and interest in the new works. It was great to talk with friends, and get caught up after a cold winter. Since then, nature has shown its power. The …
Hello! We are having our 41st Lonsdale Exhibition of porcelain on May 2nd & 3rd and May 9th & 10th, from 11 to 4pm each day. This year, part of the exhibition is in my new pool hall! As you can see, I don’t have a billiards table yet, but I do have the lights made. They are condo lamps. …
In these videos, my technique of sprigging is shown here for the first time. Before watching, let me share what I have learned about sprigging. Chinese potters have used a technique for hundreds of years, but my own European background made me look there for the secrets of sprigging technique. You have to be careful when looking at “factory” ceramics …
I’ve placed two more videos on the site that add to a series of technical videos intended for both students and those interested in learning how I make and decorate bowls. In the video of me trimming a thrown bowl, I mention that if you do not like to trim pots, you should avoid throwing with porcelain. I used to …
Why would someone who has been making pots for nearly 50 years still be making bowls? They are so basic, so simple, and so… well, useful. If you take those three reasons and add that they are truly fun to make, you have my answer. If you were to assume that the first three reasons are easy, you would be …
There are very few benefits to a long winter. For this potter, who gets spring fever easily, one benefit is getting lots of work done. I spent a whack of time working with one of my ship hulls, some Murano glass rods and new digital lights. I also strayed into the mystery land that is my Morgan glaze… I had …