Blogs about art in Port Moody
Saturday was an important day for 'The City of the Arts'. After two years of planning, fund-raising and construction the new space is now completed and ready to be used! Briefly, the 'Centennial Appleyard' house used to sit on Clarke street, was moved to allow for development, was used as a pizza restaurant and most recently was moved to an empty city lot next to…
People who toured gardens in the Port Moody Art in the Garden event recently were invited to enter up to three photos in a competition. I had taken photos of the pottery and plants in my garden and then lots more of other gardens on the Sunday. You saw those in Picasa albums in my blogs. I wound up choosing to submit three photos of flowers…
On the day after Art in the Garden, the Sunday, I joined a group of garden hosts and artists to tour around all the gardens. Of course we hadn't had the chance to see each other's gardens at all. The art had been removed but it was still a great opportunity to see how each gardener has made a personal hideaway. The gardens are behind…
Ever since the city of Port Moody built itself a new City Hall at the end of Burrard Inlet I've thought about a piece of art for the circle of grass in front of it. A fine design for its purpose i.e. city administration offices, Council Chambers which also function as a public theatre, and the library, the building was designed to resemble or at least reference a railway…
After three very busy days I think that hosting 'Art in the Garden' here as one of ten open gardens was very worthwhile. While we had a heat wave I wondered if there would be any colour at all and it was too hot to do garden maintenance except in the evenings. Now that we've had some rain and it's cooler I can relax and enjoy…