Podcast Episode Three

I love listening to people! I love hearing their stories and their family stories and about the times when things happened that changed the course of their lives! So working as a radio host, doing interviews with creative people was my idea of the perfect kind of job! I am so glad to have this way of continuing the conversations.

I’ve just posted the third episode of my podcast. For this one my guest is esteemed Haida artist Guud San Glans, Robert Davidson. I always love the opportunity to talk to Robert. He is wise and has such interesting stories and perspectives and he is a very funny man! Robert Davidson is also a revered artist whose work is collected internationally. Since the 1960’s he has been instrumental in the revival of Haida Art and Culture. Besides his work as a carver, jewellery maker painter and print maker Robert is also a singer and song writer and a dancer.

There is a moment in the late 1960’s, and he he talks about in our conversation, when his life changed and really the lives of many Haida people changed too. It is something I have asked him about before and I find that I always want to hear about it again. It is a story that moves me and is still emotional for Robert Davidson too, all these years later.

On another note, in this conversation we hear a confession from Robert about shirts!

There is a show of Robert Davidson’s paintings and prints at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 16. There is also a gorgeous book that has been created in collaboration with Gary Wyatt titled Echoes of the Supernatural.