West Vancouver's Harmony Arts Festival runs from August 1st - 10th this year. Many potter friends had decided to take part so I persuaded my husband that he would like to spend his birthday, yesterday, beside the beach at Ambleside! On yet another really hot day we parked west of the venue and strolled along the beach, towards the music. En route we admired Xwa-lack-tun's…
Last year Circle Craft and the Craft Council of BC put on a first Summer Craft Market and it was held at Jack Poole Plaza next to the new Convention Centre. When it was announced that the event would be offered again this year I decided that I'd really like to go. The weather was perfect today - sunny and not too hot, and the location is…
In my last glaze firing there was a small vase painted by Eric Metcalfe. He is having fun applying his boldly coloured designs to a 3D form. When I dropped it off at his home in Mount Pleasant's Western Front he showed me a series of gouache paintings which he says have all evolved from his experience painting on my oval plates. The result of…
In the Eastern gallery at Equinox there is another fine sculpture show. Vancouver-based artist Marie Khouri has created some amazing sculptural forms which can be used for sitting and gathering. At first glance seemingly totally abstract, it wasn't until we found a mounted maquette of the whole installation that we realized that the forms are all part of a phrase in Arabic, "Let's Sit and Talk".…
Two shows opened at Equinox Gallery last Saturday. Alan was particularly interested in seeing the latest work by Tlingit/Tahltan artist Dempsey Bob. He reminded me that we'd seen a two-person show of Dempsey Bob and Joe Fafard at Douglas Udell Gallery some time ago, where we learnt that Bob had spent time at Fafard's foundry in Pense, Saskatchewan. In this show there were some bronze pieces including masks…