This evening is the Artists Reception for HANDS That Shape Our Community. The event will be at Gallery Bistro on Clarke street, Port Moody, from 6.30 - 8.30pm. The project started with photographer Tracy Riddell's idea of photographing the hands of Port Moody artists. Several photographers joined the project and together with the artists involved formed 'Inlet Artists'. Some of the photographs were shown in Port…
This post features photos of the latest plates painted by the other two recent visiting artists, Eric Metcalfe and Renée Van Halm. Eric had painted two quietly at home and on this day painted one more. One of them is unusual for him and is titled 'L'Age d'Or: Beunel/Dali, and was inspired by a random film image. I'm particularly enjoying the first plate shown on…
Four artists have waited patiently while Al and I took a trip to Austin TX between the bisque and glaze firings of their latest work. Now Al has taken his usual excellent photos of them all, so I'll just post them here. Marian Penner Bancroft was here for…
Joan Beck, of the Cariboo Potters Guild, has invited me to give a workshop. It'll be fun to travel up the Cariboo Highway for the weekend. My previous workshop with this group was in 2000! I've chosen to take the Greyhound bus so that I can take a box of supplies with me but also to see the beautiful and so varied BC landscape.…
This afternoon I took six jugbirds down to Clarke street in Old Port Moody. The Gallery Bistro there, run by Helen and Rainer Daniels, is hosting the first show of work by 'Inlet Artists'. A couple of months ago we showed photographs of the hands of Port Moody art-makers here, on the walls of Port Moody Library. The hands belong to painters, wood-workers, musicians, and…