Back in the early seventies Alan and I bought our first and only jade plant from the window of a Chinese restaurant in Vancouver. Believe it or not we still have said plant and several of its offspring. Every year I take them outside for the summer so that they can enjoy shade, fresh air and some attention. They survive the winter grudgingly on a…
This evening is the Artists Reception for HANDS That Shape Our Community. The event will be at Gallery Bistro on Clarke street, Port Moody, from 6.30 - 8.30pm. The project started with photographer Tracy Riddell's idea of photographing the hands of Port Moody artists. Several photographers joined the project and together with the artists involved formed 'Inlet Artists'. Some of the photographs were shown in Port…
This afternoon I took six jugbirds down to Clarke street in Old Port Moody. The Gallery Bistro there, run by Helen and Rainer Daniels, is hosting the first show of work by 'Inlet Artists'. A couple of months ago we showed photographs of the hands of Port Moody art-makers here, on the walls of Port Moody Library. The hands belong to painters, wood-workers, musicians, and…
We owe a big thank-you to Ysabella Choung and her husband Robert for inviting the TriCity Potters group to share her Spatial Arts Studio for a Christmas Pottery Sale last weekend. It turned out to be lovely crisp sunny weather to encourage locals to take a walk along Port Moody's historic Clarke street and the event was most successful. Members met at the…
Potter Ysabella Choung rents a little storefront studio on Clarke street in the Heritage area of old Port Moody, next to Gallery Bistro. https://www.facebook.com/ysabella.choung She sells her cheerfully coloured work there, gives lessons and operates workshop time for the public. Recently she suggested that she and her husband could open the shop for a group Christmas Sale for members of TriCity Potters. It's a great…