Spring in the Studio!

It's that time of year again where a few of us at the Mergatroid building get together and plan to open our studio doors for a sale!  It's the once a year, these prices can't be beat kind of sale, where I pull all my work out of the cupboard, some of it with slight glazing issues, or maybe a style or colour that I won't be making again, but otherwise looking for a good home to be used in!  I have a bit of new work that I will have available, but for the most part, it's your chance to find something at a deal that you can happily take home and enjoy, instead of having it take up space in my studio!

Here are all the details!

Saturday, May 4, 2013
11:00 am until 6:00 pm

965 & 975 Vernon Drive
Vancouver, BC
(MAP)

This one day event will feature the work of...

m.a. tateishi (suite 280) --- http://www.matart.ca/
bronsino (suite 225) --- http://www.bronsino.com/
kelly austin design (suite 225) --- http://www.kellyaustindesign.com/
su foster jewellery (suite 225) --- http://www.sufoster.com/
mimosa (suite 225) --- http://www.ilovemimosa.com/
dahlhaus (suite 8) --- http://www.dahlhausart.com/
heyday design (suite 210) --- http://www.heydaydesign.ca/

Check out our event on Facebook!

SF day 2

Highlights: finding the Curiosity Shoppe and Paxton Gate (they didn't allow photos but you can find a few on this blog post from 2009), shopping and having drinks and lunch with Claire and Grace, my lovely Vancouver studio buddies, checking out the view as we rode a bus up to Haight-Ashbury.

Lowlights: both Grace and I feeling unwell- me in the morning, Grace in the afternoon (the water?  wacky eating schedules? catching a chill the night before?), waiting 2 hours longer then expected for our boxes of ceramics to arrive at our hotel, a really inebriated and rude man that came and sat beside us while we were having dinner...

This Saturday

The last summer market at Eugene Choo (3683 Main street, Vancouver) is taking place this coming Saturday, September 18, from 10-3 and I'll be there sharing a booth with the lovely Claire from heyday design.  The date falls on  Eugene Choo's yearly sale, so come by to check out the deals- I hear it's quite an event! 

I'll have new work just in time for fall, including my new porcelain cross-stitch jewelry. 

studio shop: Ceramics Friends

Grace and I, well, we share kilns.  We share frustrations and we share good things when they come our way.  We even share glaze recipes.  Yes, Grace and I share many things, because we are studio neighbours and have become good friends in the process.  Grace (aka eikcam designs) will also be having a little 'studio-warming' during our 'studio shop' since she just moved one studio over this past month, re-did the floors and painted and made everything look quite lovely in time for this coming weekend!  She's got lovely jewelry, very cute little bud vases that you can hang on your wall and cool new wall tiles that I'm quite fond of.  Her studio is right beside mine on the ground floor of the building.

We will call Claire of heyday design, the 'queen of mold-making', since she has truly mastered the art of, not only making amazing and beautiful molds, but also of slip-casting her Canadian vintage jar collection into porcelain oh so very thin and lovely.  To watch Claire work often leaves me a little breathless as she effortlessly and efficiently pulls out such delicate and detailed porcelain with such ease.  Truly, remarkable.
Heyday design can be found at the top of the stairs on the second floor at 975 Vernon Drive during our studio shop. 

Laura McKibbon or cul de sac design has been jet-setting herself and her ceramics around the globe these days.  Just back from Australia and heading to Denmark in September, Laura is most known for her silk-screened images onto slab-molded earthenware dishes.  My favourites include the 'canadiana' imagery of canoes  and canada geese but a close second are her silks-screens of branches, birds and doily designs. 
She will be showcasing her work at our studio shop along with Denise from Bronsino on the second floor ( up the stairs, through the door and down the hall) of our studio building!

studio shop

It's been in the works for a couple of weeks now, a group of designers and makers from our studio building wanting to get together to have an open studio event before summer gets started!  I'll be posting more details here this month, along with some little insights and interviews with some of these great artists and designers (more than just pictured above).  If you are in Vancouver June 26th and 27th, you'll be sure to want to come by the Mergatroid Building to kick start your summer off!