By David F. Rooney
It’s not often that I miss an art exhibition opening in Revelstoke. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I missed one, but that’s what happened on Friday, October 2. I did eventually mosey to the Visual Arts Centre to see the Year of Craft: Clay and Water Worlds shows and am very, very glad that I did.
The Year of Craft show in particular is a beautiful show that is well worth seeing. The main gallery and two side galleries and loaded with ceramic platters, vases, bowls and other vessels produced by local and regional artists, some of whom have never previously shown their work here. Some of these works are really, really spectacular.
Water Worlds, which is in the Sophie Atkinson Room features several highly detailed works in coloured pencil by Revelstoke’s Ron Nixon.
If you enjoy seeing the products of creative minds then these two shows will interest you. Some of the ceramics in the Year of Craft exhibition are pretty pricey but you’d be agreeably surprised to see how affordable many of them are.
But — Hey! — don’t take my word for it go the Visual Arts Centre and see for yourselves. The Year of Craft: Clay and Water Worlds exhibitions are open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from noon until 4 pm until October 30.
Here are a few images from the two shows that I think you’ll like:
Bob Kingsmill
Raku fired mural
Bob Kingsmill
Stoneware Mural
Amanda Eccleston
Stoneware slip under glazes
Bruse Nyeste
Mud Sweat and Tears Pottery
Porcelain, nickel-manganese glaze
Bruse Nyeste
Mud Sweat and Tears Pottery
Porcelain, nickel-manganese glaze
Jeanette Moore
Naked Raku
By Jacqueline Palmer
Ceramic
Nancy Geismar
Slip-carved ceramic bowl
Sandra Flood
Ceramic
David Walker
Porcelain
Ms Matsushita
Raku Clay, cedar bark
Cat Mather
Raku
Tanis Rebbetoy
Clay
Toni Johnston
Ceramic
Jocelyn Walker
Clay
Serenity
Coloured pencil