Jonathon's Thoughts

The new website is now up and running.  Be prepared for the appearance of new work as it arrives.  The site is the creative brainchild of Kimberly at Blue Wave Media.  I just explained what I wanted the site to achieve and “Presto!” it was done.  Of course “Presto!” did happen to involve an incredible amount of work, long and arduous hours and was only a huge success because of the years of experience Kimberly brought to the project.

Brian and I are very excited about the site and the easy maintenance aspect of it that will enable us to keep it current.  So watch for lots of information on the artists and images of new work as it appears in the gallery.  Actually the new paintings by Daniel Colby arrived on Friday and were on the site within hours.

You can expect to see Jamie’s “Open Sky” paintings on the site within the next couple of days.   We are just waiting for them to arrive back from the framer.  David and Olga Guthrie (my framers for almost twenty years) have been working overtime to get everything ready.

I just got back for a whirlwind weekend in Montreal where I picked up new work by Marko Savard, Vera Vicente and Renee Gagnon.  It was nice getting back to London to see the shop completely revamped.  Brian and Mary-Catherine (our latest addition to the team) had ripped the place apart and put in back together.  This was a direct result of our recent acquisition of an incredible display unit that we got from Jensen’s.  Regrettably the family decided to close their store which was the only place to go if one wanted to see and acquire the best in Scandinavian design.  A conversation with Pia, the owner, was the catalyst for the acquisition of an incredible unit designed for their shop over 50 years ago.  I am sure it comes with good vibes!!

There are so many things happening in the gallery that I could probably ramble on for pages but I think that this is a nice snippet.  I would like to mention that Brian’s teapot show “No Drips Allowed” already has almost 50 artists committed.  It is going to be fantastic. It will be a true celebration of the functional with the teapot as star.