After leaving Roberts Creek we headed North-West towards Sechelt, hoping to fit some more studios into our day. Just before Davis Bay we turned up Whitaker Road and found potter Laurie Rolland's studio. I've been aware of Laurie's work for many years, admiring 'vessels' and other sculptural forms in local shows at the Gallery of BC Ceramics and even here in Port Moody at the…
Our Sunshine Coast Art Crawl continued with a short drive down into the village of Roberts Creek. There we parked beside Gumboot Restaurant and took a stroll down to the ocean. I wanted Linda to see the community Mandala. Local people re-paint it every year. After a very good lunch, sitting outside at the Gumboot Restaurant (the Gumboot café had no sandwiches!) we resumed our…
The next stop on our tour was Forst Pottery Studio in Gibsons. Pat Forst specializes in reduction-fired cone 10 sculptural work. We saw several of her wall-pieces and noticed that she sprays darker oxide stains from one direction to accentuate the forms. http://www.forststudio.com Pat Forst with one of her birds Pat kindly took us outside to see her gas kiln, and I recognized a Bob…
Some time ago TriCity Potters board member Owen Lee suggested that we plan an expedition to the Sunshine Coast to take part in their annual ART CRAWL. He even invited us to stay at his family's Gibsons cabin if we chose to stay for a couple of days. Members were enthusiastic but in the end it was a small group of us who travelled around…
McMillans outside Black Goose pub, over Rathtrevor Beach. Alan and I spent the first ten days of August on Vancouver Island. For five days eight of us stayed in two cabins at Beach Acres Resort. With a playground, a pool, the pub and best of all, the enormous sandy beach below the cliff, it was a marvellous family holiday. Below you can see the grandsons…