What did I do for my workshop in Williams Lake? After an enjoyable Greyhound bus ride (8.15am - 4.15pm) up the Fraser Canyon, then beside the Thompson River and north up the Cariboo Highway, Joan Beck met me. As before, when I gave a workshop to Cariboo Potters in 2000, I stayed for the three nights with Joan and her husband Reg. Their home is…
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…
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…
It's been a while since I wrote in my blog so this'll just be a catch-up. First I want to post the link to the second Picasa album of photos we took in Guatemala. Lots of you will have seen them but this way the story of our tour there is complete, here. https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/Guatemala2March2014 Two recent emails are rather fun. In one, Bette, who is…