The other show, in the West Gallery of Equinox, featured Al McWilliams: Stone Drawings. At the entrance we saw exactly that, a stone drawing. A large flat piece of marble has been cut with curving drawing lines into interlocking sections. Once inside the gallery space we found a long row of what looks like squished clay lumps, displayed at waist height. Ron Vallis explained to…
On Saturday Al and I went in to Vancouver to attend Renée Van Halm's opening at Equinox Gallery http://www.equinoxgallery.com/exhibitions/. This was our first visit to the gallery's new enormous space in a converted warehouse off Great Northern Way. The area has been divided into two large, very high-ceilinged exhibition spaces. On this afternoon there were two openings, Renée Van Halm: French Curves in the East…
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…
Tuesday was very exciting for all of us as it was the day that the glaze firing was finally cool enough to open. All in one day I unloaded, Al took the photos of the finished pieces and then I packed them up and we drove in to Vancouver. I delivered just three little vases to…
I owe a lot to now-retired Emily Carr University ceramics instructor Sally Michener. In 1991 when I was applying to attend a Summer course at then-called Emily Carr College of Art and Design Sally was assessing my portfolio.When I explained that I regretted not having been to Art School she challenged me to do so. Why take a 3-week course when you can be…