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Happy New Year!

A few more hours to go and 2012 will be behind us.  2012 is another good year for me in term of pottery making (and other things too).  I learned some new pottery tips from my friends at the Ottawa Guild of Potters and some from online resources.  I did my annual show at the beautiful Shenkman Art Centre.  With the advice from Paul Portelli (http://www.paulportelli.com/), I changed the look of my display.  It looked quite nice IMO.  All in all I think it was a great year!
My display at the Ottawa Guild of Potters' Holiday Sale 2012


The other side of my display


The first big pottery thing I will do in 2013 is to attend Cynthia Bringle's workshop in January.  I am looking forward to it.

Happy New Year everyone!  

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