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Art project to mark Heights’ entrance Dec. 7 deadline for artists’ submissions Wanda Chow
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Violet Finvers is a graphic artist who dabbles in glass for relaxation and a different creative outlet. Some of her pieces are currently on display at the Deer Lake Gallery, and she will be one of the artisans featured at this weekend’s 41st annual Deer Lake Craft Festival. Lougheed Branch
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with glass four years ago, taking a class at a 604-298-3344 From Monday to Friday, private studio in Vancouver. Her * Terms & conditions apply. Services Since • www.gvccu.com Violet Finvers uses herFinancial keen sense first1940 completed piece, a green bowl, of design and colour to create was a finalist in an international striking presentations and annual competition for kiln-carved glass. reports for corporate clients. But Finvers loves the manual labour in the evenings and on weekends, involved, carefully cutting pieces of she applies her aesthetic eye to a ceramic fibre to create the templates different medium, glass. upon which she melts slabs of It’s her chance to explore new glass in a kiln at 1,600 F to form facets of her creative energy, try new the organic shapes of nature, like things, escape. fossils, amoebas, leaves that inspire “When you’ve been doing graphic her work. She loves the element of design for 25 years, it’s a job,” says mystery. Finvers, of Burnaby. “Each colour reacts slightly
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Most of her pieces are functional, as well as decorative. They’re bowls, boards, platters and plates. Each takes days of cutting the templates before they’re fired at least twice. “The designer in me wants to make it functional,” says Finvers. “But I also want it to be very bold, graphic.” • Finvers will be one of dozens of local artisans displaying and selling their creations at the 41st annual Deer Lake Craft Festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Shadbolt Centre.
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differently” to the heat of the kiln, says Finvers, who currently has an exhibition at the Deer Lake Gallery. “Opening up the kiln is very exciting, but it can also be disappointing.” Especially when a piece ends up in shards. “I cut myself all the time,” says Finvers. “There’s constantly blood involved.” When the studio where she first cut her teeth on glass went out of business, she bought the 20-inch by 20-inch kiln, setting up a studio in her garage/workshop.
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A triangularshaped property on Hastings Street in North Burnaby will one day be home to a public art piece marking the gateway to the Heights commercial district. The Heights Merchants Association has put out a request for proposals (RFP) seeking local and regional artists for the project, to be built at the corner of Hastings and Delta Avenue. It’s a project that the association has been dreaming of doing for at least 10 years, said its executive director, Isabel Kolic. “We’ve always called it the ‘Gateway Project’ because we wanted a landmark to usher people into our community along Hastings Street.” Similar landmarks exist in the region, Kolic said, citing as examples the Chinatown gate and the Mount Pleasant clock on Main Street, both in Vancouver. Please see GROUP, A3