Two 'Raiders' worked on plates in their own studios recently and neither drives a car. Wanting to fill my kiln and get everybody's work finished I opted to take myself in to Vancouver and collect the plates. Of course I never want to just do one errand so this was a good day to check Renée Van Halm's almost-over show at Equinox Gallery and to…
Alan and I took ourselves off to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a couple of weeks in January and were very lucky to escape a week of heavy snow here in Vancouver. We enjoyed the warmth, the colour of plants, exotic wildlife, Surrealist and Folk Art and friendly Mexicans. My resolution to be drawing more often only resulted in one afternoon of sketching with watercolours and…
I killed several birds with one stone on Thursday. What a dreadful expression for getting several errands done in one trip! Two potter friends, Barbara Tipton and Faye Oakes joined me for a chance to see the show 'Malleable: Changing Notions of Women' at the Italian Cultural Centre. I missed the opening and now have only just managed to catch the show. But several women potter…
This is the fourth and last blog about 'Catching Fire: Artists in Conversation'. I have used the talking trios as a way of showing photos of work by each of the eleven artists featured in the big 'Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary' show which opened at the Museum of Anthropology last Thursday. This final conversation was hosted by Alwyn O'Brien (you'll see that…
In the lunch break we had a chance to take another look at the show 'Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary', find David Lambert's work in the Multiversity Gallery and locate Debra Sloan's pieces in amongst the ceramics of the Koerner Gallery. The third 'conversation' in the Great Hall was hosted by Paul Mathieu and his guests were Ying Yueh Chuang and Alwyn O'Brien.…