On the first Sunday of my recent trip to England I was staying with my nephew and his family in London. They live within walking distance of Kew Gardens and my great-niece was lucky enough to have a work-experience spell there recently. During that time she was particularly interested in a brick building which houses the paintings of Marianne North and she was keen to…
On a beastly rainy September Sunday afternoon there was a good turn-out at Seymour Art Gallery for the opening of Sally Michener's solo show 'Sit. Stay. Speak'. The link to the gallery below gives a concise explanation of Sally's work, her biography and the current work. https://www.seymourartgallery.com/exhibitions/current/ For many of her fans who showed up to support their favourite clay sculptor, Sally is a fondly…
Once again the 'Clay for You' Korean Potters Group have filled two galleries at Port Moody Arts Centre with their fine traditional Korean pottery. Led by master potter Clay Jung Hong Kim, with much assistance from his skilled wife Sylvia, the Clay for You group has grown from strength to strength in the twenty or so years since the pair decided to continue their ceramics…
After the show closed at 4 o'clock a convoy of cars drove across Bowen Island to King Edward Bay, to the home of Kate Bellringer's parents Steve and Cathy Bellringer for a post-show drink. The setting for their house at the end of the road is rather spectacular. The house sits on a little bluff with a fairly steep walk down to the private wharf…
This brief blog will simply show photos of some Raiders and their friends at the opening of the Raiders' show. Some of us drove and took the ferry over to Bowen Island for the day and some of the guests live over there on this pretty, but accessible island. I did enjoy catching up with folks and listening to their discussions about the painted plates.…