To celebrate forty years of promoting and celebrating Fine Crafts in BC, Circle Craft Co-op invited longtime members who work in clay to be part of a special show. I remember visiting their Christmas Craft Fair when it was held at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (the Cultch), meeting some artists who are still members and enjoying my first taste of carrot cake! I have…
After leaving Deer Lake Art Gallery I drove in to Granville Island for the opening of Dish it Up, the current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. At 5 o'clock it was quiet and still sunny so I took photographs of the submissions from the general BC Potters' Guild membership. This show is another in the series of exhibits organized to…
BC Potters Guild webmaster and Burnaby Arts Council board member Linda Lewis has curated a show, 'Ceramic Sensibilities: One to Many'. The opening was on Saturday, so knowing that I would be unable to attend I stopped in at the Deer Lake Art Gallery on my way to Granville Island on Thursday afternoon, just after the show was set up. …
All of a sudden there have been at least four events that I'd like to mention on my blog. I've been to an auction preview, a gallery opening, two other ceramic galleries, a 70th birthday party and yesterday an Artist Salon! And it's only going to get busier with our TriCity potters' show being juried and opening soon, followed by the Ceramic Symposium in less…
I've prepared another Picasa album. This time it includes all the splendid ceramics I photographed when I was on a brief trip to England last September. Earlier I posted work seen in Cambridge but I never got around to assembling these for you pottery fanatics to see. They certainly make a big contrast to the ancient Mexican work I posted recently. I see the British…