Artisans & Galleries
Lifetime achievement award for Denman potter Gordon Hutchens
Denman Island master potter Gordon Hutchens has been honoured with an achievement award for his 46-year contribution to the British Columbia arts community. On November 27 Gordon attended the award ceremony and dinner with his wife Sandy at the Roundhouse arts centre in Vancouver, where he received the Creative…
November 2019: What’s Happening on Denman Island?
November brings weekly live music at the Earth Club Factory, a high-energy dance band at the community hall, the 38th annual Denman Island Christmas Craft Fair, and a handful of dedicated vendors at the Denman Island Farmers’ Market. Meet our featured artist master potter Gordon Hutchens, who later this…
Access Prime Nature & Wildlife Photography on Denman Island
A great locale for nature and wildlife photography, one quarter of Denman Island is protected green space, including four provincial parks, plus nature reserves, wetlands, and many public trails. Just a 15-minute ferry ride from Buckley Bay on Vancouver Island (under an hour from Courtenay or Nanaimo), you can…
The Firing: Denman Island’s gathering of potters at an outdoor wood-fired Anagama kiln
In some ways, the Japanese have a natural affinity for the West Coast, not only because they thrived on the coast as fisherman and farmers. Our feelings for rocks, for moss, for crooked trees on outcrops, for the whole idea of nature as a meditative space owe a great…
Denman Island Summer Art Gallery Shows
by Trish Suess, published in the Flagstone, August 2019 Glorious midsummer has arrived; visitors are abundant, festivals, travels, picnics, ocean and lake swims, wonderful garden bounty and refreshing life-giving rain have all blessed our island home. For the Summer Art Gallery committee, who has created another successful season of…