Dave
I’ve been quietly making pots on and off since 1975. I grew up in the Abbotsford area and was able to work with a local potter, Herman Venema, who encouraged my interest. My training took me to Georgian College in Ontario, where I studied with a British potter, Roger Kerslake. After school finished, I set up a pottery and ran a retail pottery store in Ft. Langley for a couple of years. I then travelled, and finished a degree at SFU. Val and I met and got married and we raised two amazing daughters.
Val
I've been a public school teacher since 1980, then a substitute teacher since retirement in 2015. I was lucky to work in a school with an electric kiln and enjoyed "playing" in clay with children. I continue to play with handbuilding animals, dinosaurs, and birds.
One Christmas I received a slab roller and began making trays, small containers and small houses. I help Dave with choosing glaze colours, and cleaning fired pots. Markets are a great way to spend the day together and visit other vendors and shoppers.
It is all a lot of fun!
a little on our process..
We make all our glazes from scratch and fire the majority of our pieces in a gas kiln. With gas firing, there is an interaction between the clay, glaze, and atmosphere in the kiln. Iron in the stoneware clays interacts with the glaze, causing a speckling in the glaze. We offer a variety of glazes in the gas-fired pieces.
