Keith Rice-Jones Working the Edge: A Ceramic Journey

This coming Saturday will be the third and final chance to meet Keith Rice-Jones as he works alongside his huge show at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre. The show is of thirty years of Keith's working in clay so there are new large garden sculptures, wall pieces, his signature urns and various other strong, stained forms. Check this link to the Evergreen's site to read their…

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Clay 2013: Functional Vessels & Sculptural Artifacts

Fraser Valley Potters' Guild Annual Juried show takes place at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre every third year. The current show opened on Sunday afternoon and because it is in my neighbourhood this year I managed to get there. On Sunday April 28 Medicine Hat potter Jim Etzkorn juried the show. I'm sorry not to have attended his 'juror's remarks' and taken the chance to say…

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Variations on Symmetry

I was late getting to see the astonishing ceramic show at Evergreen Cultural Centre's Art Gallery so my blog is too late for you to go and see it yourself. But I wanted to let anybody interested see these photos of the delicate and painstaking installation in the gallery space. My apologies for not having made careful note of the titles and of which artist…

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‘Mappa’ Bettina Matzkuhn

It's so easy to stay in the studio when there's a deadline, when a series of work is coming together or when it's raining. Yesterday I almost didn't go to Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre, 10 mins drive from here, for 2 of those reasons. Bettina Matzkuhn's solo show 'Mappa' opened there and will be up until June 3rd. The Opening Reception is on Sunday but…

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