Today I did a live interview with my sister Anne-Marie Harvey who is currently having a show of paintings at the Smithers Art Gallery with Dave Nehring and Quentin Robbins for the next month. It opened last night and 144 people came. It was a fine opening and a wonderful supportive feeling with lots of excitement from visiting friends and supporters. Mark Perry sang, Dave unveiled a painting of Mark which was awesome and Anne-Marie spoke to the crowd of the their development as friends and painters.

Today on the show we talked about her development as an artist and her most recent way of thinking and handling her painting. She has become a plein air artist, painting out in nature and we talked about her intuitive way of relating to the landscape.

She was the cover artist for the Law Society of BC magazine, called The Advocate for 13 years and recently retired. She was given a name and a phone number and had to arrange to meet and talk with the person (always someone high up in law) and photograph them then do a portrait for the cover. Her standard question for each person was to consider the question; What Makes Your Heart Sing, and then she would visit them a couple of weeks later and interview and photograph them and do the cover from their answer.

When she retired recently from that job, she was given a book with all the cover paintings she had done, including the last one which was of herself on the cover. An wonderful book of amazingly happy portraits, with humour and whimsy and passion.

First she lived in the north and painted that then moved to the lower mainland and spent quite alot of time on the ocean as well as travelling up and down the coast in their little open boat with her fearless husband, Chris. Lots of experiences with whales and dolphins and other ocean creatures.

Now she is doing her third leg of her journey which is to move to a piece of land with an incredible house in the process of being built, a studio of her own on the hill above Okanagan Lake. Her husband Chris will be winding down his law practice and will start filling up his new workshop with tools and projects. From the northern forests to the ocean to the semi-arid interior, her art is sure to change and flourish.

Last week I did my first live interview with Mickey Brandvold, ex-owner of Nature`s Pantry for twenty years. We talked about health initiatives in town and energy healing but barely touched the subject. We will have to do another one in a while.

The week prior to this one was a replay of Rhys Thomas talking about the chakras. I wanted to put it up as a podcast because it is such rare information. One seldom finds this kind of information in the mainstream media because it isn`t known or considered by the mainstream.

If anyone has suggestions about live interviews with someone they might like to hear, send me an email.