Last Thursday was the Opening Reception for two shows at Port Moody Arts Centre. Maggie White is a well-known Port Moody painter and a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. For a long time she specialized in water-colours. I remember the opening of a show of hers at Coquitlam's Place des Arts in the late eighties, mainly because one needed to get there early…
A couple of weeks ago we spent a few days in nearby Bellingham, in Washington State. Alan attended the North-West Anthropological Conference and I took the opportunity to be a tourist in this charming city. My first destination was Baker Street Ceramics studio where the resident artists are Deb McCunn and Jason Walker. Jason was our presenter at the February TriCity Potters' meeting and I…
This coming Saturday will be the third and final chance to meet Keith Rice-Jones as he works alongside his huge show at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre. The show is of thirty years of Keith's working in clay so there are new large garden sculptures, wall pieces, his signature urns and various other strong, stained forms. Check this link to the Evergreen's site to read their…
When I was in the Gallery of BC Ceramics last week I had no idea that Kinichi Shigeno's show was coming down the next day! The members' sale was on the Thursday and I believe the plan is to use all the gallery space for a Christmas display until the end of the year. I took some photos of Kinichi's show so if you didn't…
We owe a big thank-you to Ysabella Choung and her husband Robert for inviting the TriCity Potters group to share her Spatial Arts Studio for a Christmas Pottery Sale last weekend. It turned out to be lovely crisp sunny weather to encourage locals to take a walk along Port Moody's historic Clarke street and the event was most successful. Members met at the…