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Prints made by Vancouver children who took Ciara's workshop

Ciara Phillips at Western Front

http://canadianart.ca/features/art-as-childs-play-recent-art-projects-with-kids-in-vancouver/ Just over a week ago Ciara Phillips' residency at Western Front ended with a Saturday afternoon 'closing' event. Sadly I didn't get in to Vancouver that day, so didn't meet the children with whom she's been working or see the final display of their collaborative work. But on the previous Wednesday when I dropped off painted plates Eric took me in to…

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May 9th, 2016

Vancouver Art / Visiting artists

April Raid (updated)

We'd planned a mini-'Raid' this week, as Renée and Monique wanted to do some plate-painting before they head out of town to their respective rural studios and I was happy to have some more work to fill my kiln. I gather another Raid will take place in early May. Eric had been working on a plate in his home at the Western Front but then…

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April 16th, 2016

Vancouver Art

Allan Collier

The NorthWest Ceramic Foundation's featured speaker on Thursday night was Allan Collier from Victoria. Allan is a furniture designer-maker, teacher, collector and curator and the topic of his talk was 'BC Pottery 1920-1950.' We knew there were potters working here in the province's early days but Allan has made collecting of any pottery from this period and research on the makers his particular passion. He…

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April 4th, 2016

Gillian's work / Vancouver Art / Visiting artists

Auction preview, NWCF lecture & installed tiles

On Thursday evening I attended the preview reception for the Western Front Gala Auction. Son Mike joined me and we took a careful look at all the donated art. There were photographs, prints and paintings waiting for the Gala evening ( which is happening as I write) as well as our six specially painted plates. The Luxe Hall (originally built to house the Knights of…

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February 27th, 2016

Art shows / Vancouver Art / Visiting artists

Paintings and Plates

On Saturday, a week ago, Alan and I popped in to the Equinox Gallery rather early for the opening of two new shows. We were on our way to the Stanley Theatre's matinée of Pride and Prejudice, but didn't want to miss Renée Van Halm's 'Nudge' show opening entirely. Stupidly I didn't take any photos at all but if you open this link you'll see…

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February 21st, 2016

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.