Deer Lake Art Gallery is just a few steps away from the Shadbolt Centre and the sun was shining so I left the Ceramic Symposium for half an hour to see Fraser Valley Potters Guild's Annual Juried Show & Sale. Amy Gogarty was volunteering to sit the show that day. I see that the show actually closed today. It was well worth the visit. I…
The latest Canadian Clay Symposium took place at the Shadbolt Centre, as usual, on March 21st, and it's taken this long for me to sort my photos and put together my experience of a super weekend. On the Friday evening Jesse Birch of Nanaimo AG gave the keynote speech at the Emily Carr U campus. He spoke about ways of sharing ceramic collections with gallery…
Twelve of Eric Metcalfe's gouache paintings have recently been installed at his Dogwood Care Home. You are invited. I wasn't able to join his many Western Front colleagues for the tea-party launch. But when his good friend Paul Mathieu invited me to accompany him on another tea-time visit to Eric on Friday we made a point of seeing the splendid display in the care home's…
Last Thursday 'That Pottery Thing' celebrated this year's NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's Award Winners. A reception was held in the Mayer Studio at 1000 Parker street, Vancouver. Invited guests watched the award presentations, enjoyed elegant appetizers and participated in a Silent Auction of donated ceramics. Attentive audience & bargain pots from Sally Michener's kitchen. more enthusiastic audience The awards were presented by this year's jury members,…
There were many ceramics shows organized around the Lower Mainland to coincide with 'STOKED', the Canadian Ceramics Symposium. A one-day pop-up, 'Sur La Table' was hosted by the Potters Guild of BC on March 25th, the actual day of the symposium at Shadbolt Centre. Members were invited to bring along plates and of course I took photos of many. It's time to let you see…