Kim Donohoe

A sign describing these details: If you live mid- Vancouver Island and love pottery, check out our Arrowsmith Potter’s Guild Christmas Sale Saturday November 8, 10-4, at the Bradley Centre! It’s my first time offering my pottery to the public! Hope you can make it!

If you live mid- Vancouver Island and love pottery, check out our Arrowsmith Potter’s Guild Christmas Sale Saturday November 8, 10-4, at the Bradley Centre! It’s my first time offering my pottery to the public! Hope you can make it!

#parksville #qualicumbeach #localgifts #handmadechristmas

Pink glazed handmade pottery bowl on a silver tray. There’s drippy pink glaze over a hand carved floral design.

I made this pottery bowl on the wheel, then hand carved the floral design on it. Sadly my drippy glaze dripped too far and covered more of the carving that I hoped for, but that’s pottery! I have my first sale coming up on Nov 8 at the Bradley Centre in Coombs!

#pottery #qualicum #parksville

lol thanks so much!!

A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray.

A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray.

A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray.

A bluey-grey glazed handmade pottery mug with a hand carved image of a bear on the front with a floral crown of coral and yellow flowers and green leaves, sitting on a silver tray.

My bear mug is done and she’s a pretty one! I’m so happy with the result after being so challenged by the intricate carving and celadon glazing.

#pottery
#carvedpottery
#wheelthrownpottery
#madeincanada
#canadianpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#animalart
#amacoglazes

A smaller oval shaped embroidery of my dog Rosie. She’s a black and white Aussie Bernadoodle. Under her in pink it says her name and the “o” is a heart.

I haven’t completed many embroideries lately, but I did this portrait of our dog Rosie recently. I hand drew the pattern, then hand stitched her in this happy sitting position in an oval frame.

#embroidery
#madeincanada
#canadianart
#petportrait
#qualicumbeach
#madeonvancouverisland

A white colander full of dark reddy-purple cherries on a grey faux stone countertop

The sun shining through the leaves of our cherry tree looking across our front field and our fence with paint chipping off

Picked cherries from our trees this afternoon to the sounds of crickets. Very peaceful.

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Brown smoke chokes out the sun near Qualicum Beach in the afternoon

Grey smoke creeps across the morning sky, like it’s going to gobble up the sun

The forest fires are so terrible. The devastation to the forests, the fear and unknowing of evacuees, the dangerous work and long hours of the responders, and the smoke! On mid Vancouver Island we now have our second out of control fire in such a short order. This can’t be our new normal.

#climate

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Thank you that’s so nice!!! 😊

A pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame.

A handmade pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame.

A close up of a handmade pottery vase on a silver tray. The bottom is glazed pink and the top drippy blue. On the front of the vase is carved a trio of flowers that could be tulips, within a frame.

The glazing on this vase didn’t turn out as expected, and it was my first time carving on a collared in piece where I couldn’t feel the inside while carving, so it was kind of scary!! No mishaps thankfully.

#pottery #canada #madeincanada #carvedpottery #canadianpottery #bcpottery

Three Canadian Geese flying in formation towards the sunset with a clear blue sky behind them. They’re a beautiful and majestic representation of our country.

#Canada

A smaller, rounded, shiny grey cup, on a silver engraved tray, with a white background. On the front of the cup is carved a sleeping fox, in relief. The fox was hand drawn on the cup after it was thrown on the wheel and trimmed, then hand carved in bas relief. You can just see the little sliver of white clay along the bottom of the cup where it rests on the tray as this is a footless cup, with a smooth, rounded bottom.

A little pottery cup I made, with a hand carved relief sleeping fox. This was a new studio grey celadon glaze. I really like the smooth, rounded, footless bottom I made (for the first time).

#pottery
#canadianpottery
#carvedpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#madeincanada
#qualicumbeach

Poster for the upcoming McMillan Arts Centre summer show July 5-August 31, 2025, celebrating the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region’s 25th anniversary. I’ll have a piece of my hand thrown hand carved pottery in the show.

I’m so honoured and excited to have a piece of my carved pottery in this upcoming show at the McMillan Arts Centre in Parksville! Showing all summer, with a collection of local artists celebrating our local biosphere region.

#pottery
#mcmillanarts
#parksville
#qualicum
#theMAC
#mountarrowsmith

A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it.

A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it.

A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray with a white background. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. Looking down from above to see the inside details.

A handmade pottery bowl sitting on an antique silver tray. The bowl is a creamy white with a blue, green, yellow and pink rainbow winding around it. A close up look to show the details.

She worked out!! I’m so thrilled with how my rainbow bowl turned out after its clear glaze and final firing!! The underglaze is nice and vibrant and clean, and no cracks! (I can have bad luck with my bowls sometimes). This took over 10 hours to decorate.

#pottery
#pride
#prideart
#madeincanada

Aw thank you so much!!

Thank you so much!! A little too much detail this time!! lol😂

Thank you!!

Thank you so much!! I stick with celadons for my carved pieces. :)

A mug being held towards the camera. The mug is a soft beige colour as it is cheese hard greenware B-Mix clay. On the mug is carved a portrait of a bear with a floral crown. In the background is a foam circle used to support the mug when it’s being worked on, and some random stuff on my work surface (which is my dining room table lol)

Work in Progress! This design was a little ambitious at the top with the small details. Hand carved on greenware clay mug thrown on the wheel.

#pottery
#canadianpottery
#carvedpottery
#madeonvancouverisland
#qualicumbeach
#handmade

Happy Pride! #LGBTQ #MBPoli

What taxpayer money Poilievre spent last year is equal to:

1288 years of tuition.
2514 mortgage payments.
Groceries for a family of 4 for 523 years.
Daycare for a year for 1046 children.
118 senior couples total gross average income for a year.
#cdnpoli #grifterPoilievre

Apparently the BC gas tax rate did not increase when the carbon tax was removed. While the carbon tax was removed, the motor fuel tax on gasoline remains at 6.75 cents per litre. So how do you figure??

I know!!! Maybe my best ever?? In such a small, unassuming piece 💖

It’s so frustrating! The gas companies are just gobbling up all that extra profit.

“Pierre Poilievre tapped into rage—not reality.”
– Matthew Green

He blames “socialism” for problems rooted in unchecked capitalism.
That’s why we need public media like CBC—to cut through the fury and report the facts.

#SaveTheCBC #PoilievreExposed #CBCForever #CdnPoli

PP is such a hypocrite it’s ridiculous

A hand holds a warm hued wooden embroidery hoop towards the camera with a mostly black background. On the outside of the hoop is a silver metal wheel with the words QUEEN and PAT’D on it, with its metal support screwed into the hoop with two screws each side. Sharing because I thrifted it and then discovered that it is an antique!

I thrift as much of my art supplies as I can. I just looked up this hoop that I thrifted and found it for sale on eBay for $450-550!! Love finding treasure by surprise.

#antiquehoop
#thriftedtreasure
#embroidery
#embroideryhoop
#antiqueartsupplies
#qualicumbeach
#parksville

First Nations unity displayed at rally against Alberta separatism “Our Treaties are not relics. They are not documents to be shelved and forgotten.”

The treaties between First Nations and Canada were signed 30 years before Alberta was even thought of.
The troll machine trying to break up our country are being treated in the media as legitimate grievance.
They are not.
They are malignant MAGA.

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YouTube video by Canada on the Move Chief Allan Adam #australia #canada #mexico #uk #europe #usa #germany #trump #tariffs #ytshorts #ai

Thank you for standing up to this 👏 well said!

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