If you live in the Okanagan Valley, and you love pottery, then you know all about Jay Cryderman. His work shows up often, and many people own pieces that were received as wedding gifts or Mother's Day presents. So why don't we see Schwenk pottery in the same way? After all, they lived and worked at the base of Munson Mountain!

Evelyn Cools-Middleton had a profound influence on the artistic landscape of the North Okanagan, co-founding the Oceola Artist Group, the Oceoloa Arts Council, and the Okanagan Mainline Regional Arts Council. For nearly a decade she and her husband, Douglas Middleton, hosted the Paddock Summer School of the Arts on their lakeshore estate at Carr’s Landing.

The no. 118 chairs are a result of a modernist movement that occurred in Victoria and Vancouver in the 1950’s, marking a design heyday for British Columbia, a celebration of many modernist designers, including Arthur Erickson, Peter Cotton and of course Earle A. Morrison and Robin Bush. Designers who managed to parlay post-war enthusiasm for modernism into a clean, crisp West Coast version for themselves.

While painting this view of the hills above Naramata to the Little Tunnel en plein air in 1962, Percy Ritchie asked G. Campbell Tinning to stop, to not add anymore detail. If he stopped she would buy it from him. 

Walter Dexter plate, signed and stamped Kelowna Canada.

Kim Bruce Pottery

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