The Avant-Garden Shop: Your Garden & Bird Store

Garden Gate: Episode 119 – A mini “studio tour” in the shop

CHEX TV airdate: July 7, 2017 Click link to watch this episode online Often customers ask how we find some of our artists. It can be a lot of work researching online or we can happen to find them during a studio tour or while we’re on holidays. On this episode I tell you a … Read more

Garden Gate: Episode 116 – Mary Philpott, Ceramic artist (May 25th, 2017)

CHEX TV airdate: May 25th, 2017 Click link to watch this episode online Mary Philpott is a graduate Sheridan College, University of Guelph and MacMaster University. Her pottery, sculpture and tile work has been exhibited, collected and published internationally. She lives and works in Uxbridge, Ontario. Mary’s work is inspired by the work of William … Read more

Garden Gate: Episode 113 – Jamie Brown designs

CHEX TV airdate: April 14th, 2017 Episodes usually air during the morning show at 7:50am, CHEX Daily at 5:15pm and the following Monday during the Noon show Click link to watch this episode online My husband and I first spotted Jamie’s beautiful work at the Toronto Gift fair in January. He was part of the … Read more

Garden Gate: Episode 111 – A Slice of the North (Wendy Stanwick)

CHEX TV airdate: Friday March 17th, 2017 Episodes usually air during the morning show at 7:50am, CHEX Daily at 5:15pm and the following Monday during the Noon show Click link to watch this episode on our YouTube channel Wendy Stanwick – A Slice of the North Jewelry A Slice of the North was conceived and … Read more

Garden Gate: Episode 98 – Two new artists in the shop! (Sept. 16)

CHEX TV air date: Sept. 16th, 5-5:30pm Click link to our YouTube channel to watch this episode online. We have spent much of the summer relaxing and doing nothing….right? Not.   Here at the shop we’ve been busy travelling and searching for new artists to bring into the shop. This year my husband and I … Read more

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