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…
On a beastly rainy September Sunday afternoon there was a good turn-out at Seymour Art Gallery for the opening of Sally Michener's solo show 'Sit. Stay. Speak'. The link to the gallery below gives a concise explanation of Sally's work, her biography and the current work. https://www.seymourartgallery.com/exhibitions/current/ For many of her fans who showed up to support their favourite clay sculptor, Sally is a fondly…
Last Wednesday Fredi Rahn spoke to our group, showing us her hand-building technique and some slides of her work. Fredi studied Ceramics at Sheridan College (Ontario) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since 1990 has taught at Emily Carr University and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. While we tried to figure out projector, laptop computer and memory…