Featuring the award-winning pottery and digital artwork of Peggy and Brad Grigor.
"Life imitates art" -- so watch out!
Brad's distinctively allusive images include landscapes, abstracts, collages & portraits, illustrated digitally from his original sketches & photographs. He produces museum-grade archival prints and limited-run posters in his studio. See more.
Brad also provides a full-range of art reproduction, scanning, giclee and digital printing services; and book design, layout, illustration and pre-press services.
SPECIAL OFFER!
Bring your camera or memory card to the studio and have a 20x16 canvas print made of YOUR photo while-u-wait! Only $20.
"Artists of Ladysmith Create"
(Studio Tour)
Sat May 17 & Sun May 18, 2008
11:00am to 5:00pm
Turning Point Arts studio joins 16 other venues
in the second of two Spring studio tours.
Come visit the studio and see our latest pottery and digital artwork.
"Visions Art Studio Tour"
Fri July 4 to Sun July 13, 2008
10:00am to 5:00pm
This is the largest ever event in the history of this renowned Cowichan Valley group. See 38 artists at 24 venues, including Turning Point Arts.
Peggy has been a potter since 1977 and has worked in sculpture, porcelain, crystalline glazes and wheel thrown functional work. She is mainly self taught, but has attended numerous workshops and courses across Canada. In addition, she has served on many art committees in Saskatoon, Richmond Hill and East Gwillimbury throughout her pottery career. She has been a teacher both to children and adults for over 25 years and currently holds wheel throwing classes at their home studio, Turning Point Arts, in Saltair.
She has won several awards for her decorating and throwing expertise. Peggy incorporates her career in counseling with her love of clay in her Creative Healing workshops and feels that the clay is a portal to getting in touch with your innermost emotions. Her love of entertaining inspires her to make beautiful vessels in which to serve food. Her work encompasses everything from fine high fired porcelain with hand painting and crystalline glazes to earthy garden pieces, fountains and scuptural wall plaques.
Brad has been an avid photographer most of his life and also enjoys a diverse range of interests such as music concerts, nature, landscape, architecture, astrophotography, still life and product photography. Concurrently, he has over 35 years of experience in computer software programming and marketing. It only made sense that he would combine these two backgrounds in the expression of his art, known as photo-based art.
Brad seeks to create artwork that intrigues the mind, piques the imagination or stirs an emotion by juxtaposing contrasting visual elements, including faces, common objects, buildings and abstract shapes. His raw materials are photographic images and computer pixels. The computer is used both as a darkroom and a canvas for creating compositions from these materials. Brad won two awards and one honourable mention in his first year of exhibiting his work. In 2007, his piece "Wings" was selected by Common Ground 2008 for their Gifted Artist Series.
In their short time on Vancouver Island, they have participated in several local shows and exhibits including Arts on the Avenue and the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery and Artists of Ladysmith Create. Upcoming events are listed on this web site.
Brad and Peggy welcome you to their home studio and showroom year round. While there, please feel free to visit their lavish Mediterranean gardens featuring waterfalls, arbours and a fairy garden.
Common Ground 2008 selects "Wings" for their "Gifted Artist Series".
