Contemporary Clayworks
Digital Art, Printing & Design Services
General announcements and information
Greetings to all our friends, colleagues and clients who have given us such great support, ideas and, of course, your much-appreciated business this year. It’s been an exciting year so far and we’ve decided to take a short vacation from November 25 to December 2. We will re-open our studios on December 3, 2018. See…
Greetings! Due to travel and Christmas, Turning Point Arts will be closed during certain days in December. December 2 to 6 Brad will be visiting family in Ontario for a few days in early December. Therefore, the digital design and printing side of Turning Point Arts will be closed from Friday December 2 to Tuesday…
How can the cable and satellite TV operators have such a stranglehold over the feed?
I was very much impressed by how Cathi’s workmanship demonstrates a complete command of and intimacy with her medium.
Thanks to everyone who came out for “Arts on the Avenue” in Ladysmith on Sunday. The weather was awesome and we think more people came through than ever before. For our part, we sold some stuff and we met a lot of very nice people, many of whom signed up for pottery classes and took printing brochures and…
Do you use different video players? Have you noticed there seems to be no consistency in the use of (or even the existence of) keyboard shortcuts? For example, what’s the keyboard shortcut for “Pause” on your player? In some cases, it’s “spacebar”, in other cases it is “p” and in yet other cases (Apple QuickTime),…
Well, it has been quite a winter for us Vancouver Islanders. Today we shovelled yet again after another heavy snowfall last night. Brad could be seen wading through the snow after dark with a long stick to tap the snow off of Peggy’s prized Japanese Maple! The good news for you is that no one…
In the December 23rd edition of The Ladysmith Chronicle, I debuted my monthly column, called “Creative Parenting”. Using a question and answer format, my goal is to help parents learn how to deal with difficult teenage issues. Readers are encouraged to send me their questions and I will rack my brains for the answers and best…
We live on Vancouver Island in arguably the warmest climate in Canada. We don’t get much snow, but 2008 will probably go down as a record year. We found out today, for example, that Victoria has the deepest snowpack (41 cm) of the 50 major urban centres in Canada. We might not have quite that…
We’re celebrating the Snow Storm of 2008 by extending our Annual Studio Sale and Open House until Sunday, December 21, 2008. Due to the attack of the white stuff last weekend, many folks were stranded and unable to take advantage of our once-a-year blow-out prices on Peggy’s fine pottery and Brad’s digital art prints and…