The products of our birthday Raid on August 22nd have survived the glaze firing successfully and I have more beautiful, varied and interesting plates to show you. To comply with the Wordpress suggestion of reducing the size or number of images per blog I shall show the work of two of my visiting artists first and then post a second blog to show the work…
Just five days after our first Raiders' show, at Terminal Creek Contemporary Art Gallery on Bowen Island, the tradition of artists raiding our home continued. Five of the regular artist visitors arrived on my doorstep on Thursday. Luckily the Raid was pre-planned and I had a fresh batch of bisque-fired plates ready for them. Birthday men Pierre Coupey (last Saturday) and Eric Metcalfe (this actual…
After the show closed at 4 o'clock a convoy of cars drove across Bowen Island to King Edward Bay, to the home of Kate Bellringer's parents Steve and Cathy Bellringer for a post-show drink. The setting for their house at the end of the road is rather spectacular. The house sits on a little bluff with a fairly steep walk down to the private wharf…
Rounding up Raiders.. Kate Bellringer must have felt like a shepherd moving sheep or a member of the constabulary arresting said raiders over the past few months. Somehow she was able to encourage a large number of the artists who've poddled out to my Port Moody studio for a Raid to deliver one or more of their plates to her office at Burrard Arts Foundation.…
Please join us for the opening of The Raiders August 17th – 12:00 to 4:00 PM Curated by Kate Bellringer, The Raiders features works by: Eric Metcalfe, Eli Bornowsky, Allyson Clay, Colette Urban, Monique Fouquet, Paul Mathieu, Renée Van Halm, Katie Lyle, Marian Penner Bancroft, Greg Bellerby, Elizabeth McIntosh, Rick Ross, Lyse Lemieux, Ciara Phillips, Marlene Madison, Garry Neill Kennedy , Cathy Busby…