New art exhibition is visually sublime

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: