My sister working as stylist for Electra 2005

I’m about to play the part of the proud sibling, but I can’t help it! Colin Maclean for the Edmonton Sun writes:

Renate Pohl’s setting for the Studio Theatre production of Howard Barker’s Scenes From an Execution is a marvellous creation. It’s a three- level, industrial- strength erector set that, in a play about art, could be a painting itself.

You can read the rest of the rave review, and more details about the production.

After graduating with a gold medal and a BFA in theatre several years ago, and having acted, directed, toiled at an insurance company, worked as a popcorn girl, taught in Japan, and also dabbled with the likes of astrophysics, my brave and beautiful sister recently decided to go back to school to complete a masters in theatre design. She’s now teaching at her university to help finance this dream, and is on the verge of finishing her thesis.

I’ve learned to expect the unexpected from Renate. Last year she sent me a picture of this very large study of a Vermeer. That it was done in set paint was all the more impressive, and I think you’ll have to agree that it’s none too shabby for a first major attempt at painting.

Study of Vermeer’s The Glass of Wine, Set paint on Canvas by Renate Pohl

In between all this, she took time off to visit us and paint Conor’s nursery. Now she’s made plans to go to England later this year, to see what other adventures await. I look foward to hearing all about them!