On Thursday evening I attended the preview reception for the Western Front Gala Auction. Son Mike joined me and we took a careful look at all the donated art. There were photographs, prints and paintings waiting for the Gala evening ( which is happening as I write) as well as our six specially painted plates. The Luxe Hall (originally built to house the Knights of…
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…
Back in early December I made 75+ tiles for a fireplace surround in a Courtney house. It was a tricky arithmetical challenge because I wanted to choose a tile size that would not require any to be cut to fit in the space, but clay shrinks. In the end I cut out two different sizes and they were all 10 percent bigger than what I want…
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…
What a fine way to spend a 75th Birthday! Last year it happened to be Eric's birthday when a 'raid' was scheduled and he decided that passing the day with like-minded artist friends was what he'd like to do again. I had opened the glaze kiln on Saturday so there was a collection of all the plates from July's raid all ready for the 'raiders' today.…