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…
This brief blog will simply show photos of some Raiders and their friends at the opening of the Raiders' show. Some of us drove and took the ferry over to Bowen Island for the day and some of the guests live over there on this pretty, but accessible island. I did enjoy catching up with folks and listening to their discussions about the painted plates.…
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.…