2019 WORKSHOP DATES NOW SET - Space is Limited, Grab Your Spot Before It's Gone!

For the first time, I’ve scheduled all my workshop dates for the year in advance. These weekends fill up very quickly, so please get in touch asap to reserve your spot! Weekends for 2019 are:

JANUARY 26 AND 27

FEBRUARY 9 AND 10

MARCH 9 AND 10

APRIL 6 AND 7

MAY 4 AND 5

JUNE 1 AND 2

JULY 20 AND 21

AUGUST 24 AND 25

SEPTEMBER 21 AND 22

OCTOBER 26 AND 27

NOVEMBER 23 AND 24

COST: $295 Includes all materials and firings (bisque and glaze). $200 downpayment required for registration to hold your place. $100 non-refundable due to small class size and cost of pre-ordering materials.

These classes are for absolute beginners through advanced. I have many students who take weekend workshops many times, building their skills from absolute beginners to advanced ceramics artists, developing their own style and artistic language over time. 

We cover many different ways of working with clay during these fun-filled, information-packed two-day workshops, including:

HAND BUILDING
Hand building, as I have found for myself, can be even more creative than throwing. I introduce many hand building skills.

I will have slabs of clay ready for you to work with. I will show you quick and easy ways of making mugs to teapots.

WHEEL WORK
If you have never been on the wheel before I will get you throwing, working hands-on (literally) with you to throw pots. If you have been on the wheel before, I will watch you throw and trouble shoot everything from your ergonomics to your pace. I am happy to demo and teach anything you wish.

SURFACE DECORATION
We will be imprinting clay, carving and painting. I will give lots of creative decorating and glazing demos. I have many coloured slips and underglazes to finish your forms with, and will instruct on how to use them.

We have a simple potluck luncheon each day, with each student providing something light to share. *Please let me know if you have any dietary needs*

I accept E-Transfer and credit cards.
*PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL OR 250-538-7021 WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

NEW WORK!

I'm so excited to have new work to share! I’ve expanded my family of Ogawa work as well as well as new glazes, including Suburban designs in my new GREY(!) glaze as well as exciting new colour blazes (including a beautiful deep pink on top of my petal pink). I’ll have this new work available for purchase at Shiny Fuzzy Muddy in Vancouver at Heritage Hall December 8 & 9, 2018. It’s a really fantastic show - I buy most of my Christmas gifts here! - and I hope to see you there! If you can’t make it to Shiny Fuzzy Muddy but are interested in purchasing some of this new work, please get in touch.

Salt Spring in the City Love

Feeling the love big time this week with all the fabulous coverage we've been getting for Salt Spring in the City. My fellow show producers and I are so, so proud of this show that brings a little taste of our world-famous Salt Spring Saturday Market to the big city in Vancouver. If you can get yourself to Heritage Hall in Vancouver March 4-6, 2016 you'll be glad you did! If you want to keep up with all the latest on Salt Spring in the City - hint, we may have some more exciting things in store - please sign up for my email list and you'll be among the first to know.

UPPERCASE MAGAZINE
Holy cow! My favourite magazine profiled our show! Here's some of what editor Janine Vangool had to say (thanks, Janine!):
I love a good craft and art fair and there's one in Vancouver this weekend that I'd attend if I could. Salt Spring in the City brings artisans from Salt Spring Island into the big city to show and sell their wares. "Over thirty vendors have been invited to attend Salt Spring in the City," write the organizers, "It's a curated, pop-up village market, where the criteria for inclusion means the product must be designed, and produced on Salt Spring Island. The Vancouver showcase will include food and fashion, paintings and pottery, wine and crafts, and a sense of nostalgia for the West Coast’s homesteading practices. Visitors will discover the wares of woodworkers, designers, jewellers and potters, artisanal cheese makers and preservers, weavers and painters, artists and foodies."

Read the full story and the profiles of all the show producers, including yours truly.

VANCITY BUZZ
VanCity Buzz is feeling the love for our show as well. Hurray! Here's what they had to say: This popular venture from Salt Spring Island is back for its third year, once again bringing with an array of crafts, art, and of course, food and drink. Look for award-winning cheese, small-batch jam, "wild untamed cider," elixers and tonics, and wines. 
Get the full details here. 

30 DAY ADVENTURES
We couldn't have said it better ourselves:
I love visiting Salt Spring Island. It has been names by the New York Times, "52 Places to Go in 2016" and "Canada's Coolest Island" by the Washington Post. If that isn't enough to get you over here for a weekend escape or a weeklong retreat how about the fact that the 10,000 people who call Salt Spring Island home all seem to be talented artists and craftsmen.