Wordless Wednesday: Tempting Array

on our shelves

Beside the Seaside

shell sculpture by Pat de Couto

Summer.
It's what the beach is for.
Barnacles, sand, gritty stuff in your shoes, tidepools, tidepool creatures in your shoes, beach-combing, sand in your clothes, shells, sandcastles, sand in your hair ...

photography by Sarah Ronald

Not easy stuff to bring away at the end of the day (apart from the sand).
(ahem) Let the Blackberry Artists make it easy for you to keep those seaside memories.
And without the sand too.

Your parents will thank us.

shell sculpture by Pat de Couto

driftwood sculpture by Pat de Couto

Wordless Wednesday: Rehome Me

waiting for a new home - in the vault

Please welcome new artist, Denise Dupré

Please welcome new artist, abstract colorist Denise Dupré, who successfully juried in to the cooperative at our last meeting.
Denise is also one of our local artists, working from a studio at the city's Esplanade Studios in Port Moody. Her work is a great addition to our walls and shelves, featuring a beautiful and energetic use of colour. As with all jurying, we look for artists to enhance our presence in the Arts Centre and bring a certain pzazz to the gift shop. Denise's work certainly fits the bill.
Welcome Denise!

Wordless Wednesday: Up Close and Personal

detail from ceramic work by Myrta Hayes

intarsia frog by Del Holbrook

What's with all the frogs?

Did you miss us?

by Val Simons

Fear not if you missed our Port Moody Centennial "One Hundred" display last month. Most of the pieces (that weren't sold) are in residence at the gift shop.

by Yolanda Cheung

Why not drop in and get re-acquainted with them?
Study them close up.

by Sandra Ho

From out behind the glass.
Maybe chat with one of the artist who created work for the display.
Because more than likely, that's who you will meet manning the gift shop.

by Jan Pavlic Falkenberg

We're a true cooperative, each taking on responsibility for running a little piece of the whole machine.
Artists - fresh and on display for the community.

by Elizabeth Wallace

Wordless Wednesday: Macro Moment

July in the gallery, originally uploaded by Blackberry Artists.

detail from jewelry by Urszula Petrykowska

July's Featured Artist in the Gift Shop: Luci Gimenes

This month we're featuring the beautiful jewelry of Luci Gimenes in the gift shop. Her work is a vibrant mix of seed beading colours or a refined glimmer from sterling silver jumprings.

Luci works in with both beads and wire, producing intricately crafted works of art for your neck, wrist or earlobes. Her main techniques are bead weaving stitches like peyote and the woven technique of chainmaille.

In bead weaving, beads are strung on thin filament and then stitched to form 3D shapes. Luci skilfully blends colour and creates geometric patterns in her pieces, as well as ruffles, waves and chain links.

Her chainmaille work shows how gracefully simple jumprings can be woven, forming flat weaves and round weave strands. The pieces have weight and presence, along with a fluidity like fabric. Amazingly, this is the same technique used to create armour for knights of old.


Luci's work is intricate, graceful and stylish. She's a great addition to the portfolio of other jewellers in the gift shop and a wise investment for your summer accessories.

Wordless Wednesday: Wood Theme at City Hall

A wood-themed display at City Hall this month, in celebration of the upcoming Wood Fair
at Port Moody Arts Centre, on Saturday July 20th.

Happy Canada Day

iris-folding paper art from Valerie Gilbert

Happy Canada Day from all the Blackberry Artists.

... and Happy Birthday Port Moody!