Past Events

The annual Studio Tour on Gabriola Island is a long tradition with the community of artists and art lovers. Visitors come to the island from around Canada's West Coast and beyond to travel around with a tour map meeting artists in their creative spaces and shopping the newest artworks. Download a brochure in the link or pick one up at Gabriola businesses.
On this 28th year of the Tour, I will be exhibiting at stop #28 on the map, Sunstone Pottery, as a guest artist with my teacher and mentor, Graham Sheehan. Sunstone is the home production studio where I apprenticed as a young adult to learn the craft and traditional processes of wood fired ceramics.
Studio galleries will be open Saturday. Sunday, and Monday 10am - 5pm

Thank you for shopping local, Gabriolans! And for supporting artists/artisans/craftspeople/makers in your community.
Tiny Gallery is open every day and stocked with functional wood fired stoneware, each piece a unique hand made design.
Disruption>Awakening:2020 Commemorative Mugs available, also Rice Bowls, Tea Bowls, Demi-Tasse, Cannabis Pipes, and Runes.
They're selling fast because there's something for everyone at the Tiny Gallery near Whalebone Beach.

A practice of primitive pottery making in the open air on the beach. We gather tools from the ground for rolling, forming, and decorating. We use our hands and sea water to build beautiful functional wares the same way humans have done for many thousands of years.Open to beginners and experienced ceramicists.

3-5 pm
Sunday July 26
Saturday August 22
Sunday August 39

Cost is by donation for clay, instruction, and firing.

In collaboration with Toronto-based artist, Patrick Cruz, I was commissioned with other potters to translate Viganos Pagburnayan pottery forms into 3-dimensional canvasses for part of Cruz's maximal coverage installation of Step Mother Tongue.

Check out the MadMudslinger Pop-Up Pottery Store in downtown Nanaimo until December 15. It's filled with new functional wood fired stoneware for kitchen and table use.

Winter Treasures is a boutique style show & sale
featuring handcrafted gifts, art, décor and fine
craft items that are created by local artisans. It is
brimming with inspired ideas to wrap up your
shopping list and simplify the holidays.
Complimentary personal shopping and corporate
gift services are also available by appointment

Art 4 Life offers a fun interactive arts experience for the young and the young at heart. It features work by visual, literary and performing artists that are meant to inspire and engage young people while raising opportunities for participation, discussion and art appreciation.

From Japan to Canada is a series of exhibitions, events, and cultural demonstrations that reflect the history, evolution, and symbiotic influences Japanese and Canadian culture have had on the participating artists. Included is a group exhibition of Ikebana vessels with Ikebana demos and displays by Kado Sumi School. I'm very happy to participate in this show with some of my ceramic vessels.

Featuring 50 new works by 19 Gabriola Artists in beautiful, and accommodating, Qualicum Beach.

An annual juried discovery exhibition for new and emerging artists. In addition to the opening reception on Sunday January 8 2 -4pm, there will also be Poetry Meets Art: Sunday January 22, 2 -4 pm. Hosted by award-winning poet Fran Bourassa, local writers will read poems inspired by the exhibition.
I'm very pleased to be in this show with a most important theme to me, Balance. Although I'm not a new artist, I am still considered to be emerging because I'm broadening my scope of audience beyond my small but supportive locale.

Craft fair is from 10:00am to 3:00pm, Saturday December 3 2016. Over 60 local artisans, raffle prizes, silent auction, children's arts and crafts, concession and more! A popular tradition on Gabriola island. Mad Mudslinger will be featuring, fresh from the kiln, her latest functional stoneware for kitchen and table use.

Local art exhibit and people's choice awards, live music, interactive art, refreshments, door prizes and more!
First Friday is a monthly event in Nanaimo, BC

Art 4 Life offers a fun interactive arts experience for the young and the young at heart. It features work by visual, literary and performing artists that is meant to inspire and engage young people while raising opportunities for participation, discussion and art appreciation.

Agora Street Art is a lively and busy street fair, as the poster suggests, happening alongside the ever-popular Gabriola Theatre Festival.

7 pm - 10 pm

"Take it where you will"