For the last three months local ceramics whiz-kid Brendan Lee Satish Tang has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation, as well as teaching Foundation Ceramics at Emily Carr U. He is currently showing the resulting work in the BAF Gallery at 108 East Broadway, Vancouver along with fellow artist Lucien Durey. The Opening Reception was on Thursday January 11th, one of those truly dreadful…
'I have a show up now at the new ECU campus of my "Flower Vases with Flowers in a Vase", ceramics and large digital photos. Until Sunday Dec. 3, 1st floor Faculty space, open everyday.' This was the invitation I received from Paul Mathieu. Last Thursday, on a beastly rainy day, I first took plates to Mina's Strathcona home and then found my way…
On Saturday, while my recent glaze firing was cooling, Al and I sky-trained in to Vancouver for a gallery day. Our primary destination was Coastal Peoples Gallery in Gastown but I hadn't seen the current shows at Vancouver Art Gallery so we spent some time there first. Our son Mike joined us as he's particularly interested in Mid-Century Modern Design. True Nordic is on the…
This was a packed weekend! Another group of Raiders had asked if they could come out on a Saturday so we booked this one, but I didn't realize that the East Side Culture Crawl was also on. Alan and I like to go, and I'd missed at least the last two so we decided to see some of it on Friday evening and Al would…
To complete my previous blog, I'd like to add pots by clay artists who are permanent members of Contemporary Applied Arts. This gallery shows the best of British Fine Crafts. This was my final day in England and I was determined to make the most of it, in spite of having picked up one of those beastly colds that one does on a trip…