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Here at the studio we are excitedly anticipating and preparing for the O-Canada art show at The Milkman's Daughter, on Canada Day, this Friday. It is going to be fabulous.

There is another art show we are excited about around here, one that we have not yet announced!

Trish, Rachael and I are doing an art show together at The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, a Victoria gallery located at 2516 Douglas Street (between Bay and Hillside). The opening will take place on Sunday, July 10th between 1pm and 4pm. The show will consist of works using various mediums, including: painting, sculptural installation, living art, and silkscreening, of course! There will be much to see and taste, with delicious food and wine available.

The show will run from July 11th to July 29th, with the gallery open 1pm - 4pm daily.

Vancouver Art: Beautiful Frontier

Two accomplished Main Street artists have joined forces and created a really interesting new team and first installation. It's a cool combination of nostalgia and visual beauty. Check it out at the On Main Gallery if you are in the neighbourhood before the end of the month!

As I am an art appreciator not an art reviewer I will leave the description to Urban Pill

"This work combines stories that respond to the traditional iconic imagery found in representations of life and personal histories growing up in rural BC in the 70's and 80's. This includes landscape, memory, and nostalgia of growing up in highway towns, Squamish and Westbank."

Congratulations Rosanne and Katherine! I'm looking forward to more enthralling shows!

Lily Inspiration: The Good Doctor

"You know how four out of five dentists always recommend stuff? I'm the fifth dentist!" These are the words of Dr. Sean Sikorski: world's most awesome dentist. Cousin to a very good friend of mine, I have always thought Sean was just about the coolest guy ever; in addition to his West End practice, he spends a lot of his time working as a street dentist in the Downtown East Side and cöauthoring academic papers with titles like "Oral Cancer Screening in a High-Risk Underserved Community: Vancouver Downtown Eastside (2007)." Sean is also an acrobat and, now, a multimedia artist! Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending his show at the Interurban Gallery in Vancouver. Highlights included a pink, flocked Jesus sculpture--made me think of our hot pink Mary tea cozy--and a lovely cake toped with really gross extracted teeth. (I asked Sean where he got all the teeth and he just sort of rolled his eyes....) Because, hey, if you're going to be marginalized within society, you might as well have happy gums, and if you're going to have a "suffering Christ," it might as well be pink and fuzzy, right?

Thank you to Sean "Mr. Books on the Radio" Cranbury for the photos.