Local artist Carol Bolt has put together her first show, a combination of pottery and painting that she's called Pots and Paints.
The show began when the gallery needed a safety show just in case a planned exhibition fell through, Bolt admits, because she could get her work together quickly. Modest by nature, Bolt says she doesn't consider herself an artist but instead as somebody who just makes things.
Bolt says it was her third attempt to try pottery, and she says Brian Beck's teaching is what made it possible for her to get a grasp of the form.
"I don't even know why I enjoy it, because I'm a real neat freak and it's really messy."
One of the centerpieces of the show is what she calls the "Doily collection," which has the texture of doilies pushed into the clay. Bolt says that the start of the collection began when she received a garbage bag full of doilies and couldn't figure out what to do with them.
"Somehow I made the collection between clay and lace, which is really weird but that's what I did."
The paintings are defined by their burst of colour, which Bolt says is the result of her being a "flower freak" and loving color. She says that it's been a constant from when she began painting, something that was pointed out to her by early teachers.
Bolt also has praise for Sandra MacColl and Lori Glauser, who she credits as being an influential force in the art community in Yorkton.
"They are absolutely warriors for the visual arts."
Pots and Paints will be at the gallery until Christmas.
