This morning Eric Metcalfe and Kate Bellringer came out to Port Moody for a mini-Raid. Kate is the Director of Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) and has expressed interest in curating a first show of Raiders' work. The owners of Terminal Creek Contemporary Art Gallery, in Artisan Square on Bowen Island have given her a slot in August 2019 so Kate is anxious to get our visiting artists…
While we busy ourselves with Christmas shopping and baking, gift-wrapping and good wishes-mailing, my artist friend Eric Metcalfe spends every day completing one or two extraordinary drawings or little paintings. He listens to Classical music, preferably Handel, or some of his vast collection of Jazz. But recently he was listening to news from South of here and became increasingly angry. The resulting drawings are of…
For many years senior artist Eric Metcalfe has been spending each day drawing and meticulously painting with gouache, adding to an ever-growing series of works. Now West Vancouver Museum's curator Darrin Morrison has chosen just some of these wildly colourful graphic paintings for a show which also features reference to Eric's earlier performance and collaborative work as Dr Brute. This link will take you…
My recent glaze firing was small because I wanted to have sample tiles of some underglazes ready for the next 'Raid' of painters who were here the other day. But for those folks who said they would like to see some of my recent plates after glaze firing, here you are! I painted a square plate with geometric shapes based on those I'd applied to…
When I popped in to Eric Metcalfe's little studio at the Western Front to drop off plates I was confronted with some great art work. On his table rested a huge porcelain jar, made in JingdeZhen and painted collaboratively by Paul Mathieu and Eric himself. What a super combination of their two, very compatible ways of painting on clay. The two men meet for tea…