At the invitation of Burnaby sculptor Bill Thomson I stopped in at the Italian Cultural Centre last week, on my way to ‘That Pottery Thing’. The current gallery show there is juried work by the Sculptors Society of BC, timed to celebrate 150 years since the birth of BC sculptor Charles Marega. He is best known for having created the Lions at the entrance to…
Tam Irving's latest solo show opened at VisualSpace Gallery in Vancouver last Saturday. The only Art Show opening I attended last year was Tam's show in the same venue so I was interested to see what he has been working on since then. It turns out that Tam has abandoned, probably permanently, wheel-throwing in favour of hand-built slab work for 2D images. There are…
I've changed my mind about Kintsugi. I have felt that if a pot was broken, cracked, chipped or flawed it should be smashed and added to the shard pile. The amateur gloppy gold-painted kintsugi-wannabe repairs that seem to be currently acceptable, just don't do it for me. But now I've seen the work of Naoko Fukumaru and understand how an expert can repair and…
After a great five-night family holiday on Saltspring Island, Alan and I took the ferry on to Vancouver Island for a further four nights. Our first stop was in Nanaimo where we found its Art Gallery, met the curator and potter Jesse Birch and spent some time with the current show, We Do Not Work Alone. Of course this Ceramics show has been on my…
https://pomoarts.ca/exhibitions/whimsy-in-wood-and-paint Ron Love: Whimsy in Wood and Paint Join us at 7:15 pm on July 22nd for a virtual artist talk with Ron Love on Facebook live. When Ron Love retired from a long and successful career as an architectural illustrator and designer, he wanted to expand beyond his usual painting practice, and explore fresh mediums to use his creative talents. He turned his artistic bent…