The Western Front's Gala Auction is coming up next Saturday. Here is the link to the announcement. http://westernfrontauction2016.tumblr.com The six 'Raiders' who've donated a plate each to this fund-raiser are: top row, Philippe Raphanel, Mina Totino and Rebecca Brewer Lower row, Renée Van Halm, Monique Fouquet and Eric Metcalfe. I'm pleased with the new plate design, a simpler rimless oval, and I can almost see…
Just before the current shows on the second and third floors of Vancouver Art Gallery closed I took a day to trundle into town to see them. To avoid parking there I took the 160 bus a block from my home and hopped off two blocks from VAG. Concession fare too! All four floors were of interest to me. On the top floor a fine collection…
Last Thursday I attended the opening of the latest show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics, 'Traditions', featuring the work of two Vancouver artists who share a studio, Ron Vallis and Martin Peters. These artists are traditional studio potters in the Leach tradition, hence the show's title I'm sure. Together they have assembled a pleasing selection of jugs, plates, teapots, vases and lidded jars,…
On Monday June 8th I joined several other members of the BC Potters' Guild at the Gallery of BC Ceramics for the launch of Contemporary Ceramic Collective. New board member Kathleen McGiveron is the energetic promoter of this new Guild initiative. The idea is that membership of this collective is juried and is intended to bring emerging and established clay artists together for critiques and…
RIFF is the title of the current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. It is another in a series which pairs two artists, one of whom has been making work in clay for a number of years with another who is right at the beginning of her career. In this case the artists are Jackie Frioud and Sam Knopp, both of whom are well-known…