Two 'Raiders' worked on plates in their own studios recently and neither drives a car. Wanting to fill my kiln and get everybody's work finished I opted to take myself in to Vancouver and collect the plates. Of course I never want to just do one errand so this was a good day to check Renée Van Halm's almost-over show at Equinox Gallery and to…
Last night Al and I braved horrid rain to drive over to West Vancouver. We grabbed an early supper at Park Royal South's Trattoria Restaurant before heading on to the West Vancouver Museum. Renée Van Halm's solo show 'The Shape of Things' was opening. The walls of the two galleries were filled with her large impressive paintings and some smaller works and aha! there were…
Renée always arrives here well-armed with collages from which she chooses the shapes and colours of her paintings. She even had an oval cut-out ready to frame her composition. I really enjoy the way she takes the underglaze colours and mixes them to produce all manner of shades. This time she painted two plates and then a smaller oval but deeper dish. It is…
Just recently I had another group of artists here to paint plates. The plan is to get eight artists to paint several plates and donate one each for the upcoming Western Front fundraiser. Eric, Monique and Katie had already painted theirs in January so on this day my visitors were Sally Clay, Renée van Halm, Eli Bornowsky and Katie again. Paul Mathieu couldn't come so…
When I got home from Abbotsford today Al had started to photograph yesterday's hot new pots. These are the plates painted at the latest Painting Raid. Monique Fouquet painted a platter with transparent ovals on grey. Renée van Halm painted four plates with bold versions of her collages. And Eric Metcalfe painted his designs with red and black on…