H ome Roa IM By Sharon Cohen, Gallery Manager

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Rg) Like us on Facebook!

‘The Gallery of BC Ceramics is enjoying an increasing following on
Facebook. We update our page weekly, as there’s always something
interesting and exciting to share. Our latest venture on Facebook is
a feature called “Home Roam”. When we sell work in the gallery we
often wonder where it will end up, what kind of home it will go to.
Especially with pieces we love—which is just about all of them, if the
truth be told! We like to think of the pieces going to a home where
they'll be given pride of place and valued, used frequently and enjoyed
often. Sometimes, we're sent images by customers, usually recipients of
goods we've shipped far afield. There was a giant Connie Glover vase
that was shipped to Texas (in a box the size of a fridge!) and a Keith
Rice-Jones Annubis bowl that went to the U.K. by ocean freight, and
we were delighted to be sent photos by the proud and delighted new
owners. (Actually, the first thing I did when I saw the image of the
Annubis bowl safely ensconced in its new London home was to do
a quick ear count. The jackal heads of the Annubis figures have tiny,
protuberant, fragile ears that had been wrapped and then protected
beneath paper cups during shipping, and I was anxious they may not
have survived the journey or the unwrapping. Like a parent counting
fingers and toes on a newborn infant, I did a quick Annubis ear count
—all present and correct!).

Having seen some of these images, we thought it would be fun to
post similar ones on our Facebook page, and we'd like to encourage
guild members to send us images for that purpose. It can be your own
work in your own home (or someone else’s home), or the work of other
potters who are artists represented at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. It’s
always fun to check out, so please email your images (with details of
the artists) to galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com.

I guess we all have a tiny bit of the voyeur in.us, so please send us
those images so we can peep into your homes!

TOP: Awood-fired bottle vase by Jinny Whitehead and a baby by
Debra Sloan share pride of place with a Gailan Ngan bowl.

LEFT: Yunomis by Lynne Johnson are surrounded by treasures from
around the world.

Potters Guild of BC Newsletter : November 2011 9