Rusty Cox: Cupcake ice carving
Recently, Paul and I had the neatest opportunity to attend a Culinary Art Show! Now, what the heck is a “Culinary Art Show” you may be asking . . . basically it is your typical art show (thank goodness for living in London and Victoria so I knew what an art show was!) but the medium (look at me using artsy words) had to be FOOD!
Above, is the highlight of our evening, a JJ’s Custom Cakery cupcake carved into an ice sculpture! Thank you Rusty for choosing our cupcake for your inspiration. He has participated in the Lake Louise Ice Carving competition for the last number of years, and to see him go at it the way that he did was so cool!
So, up to Kimberley, B.C. Canada, we hauled our own works of art up to a rustic catering company called The Green Door Catering, which was right in the heart of the town, The Platzl. Basically if you’ve ever heard of Kimberley, you’ve heard of it for one of two reasons: 1. Skiing, 2. the International Accordion Festival (yes, I said international, and festival, AND accordion all in the same title).
But, on this night the Platzl was filled with people looking for great food (which is has) and something fresh and new, which they found at The Green Door.
After touring around the different displays, I was absolutely blown away with the creativity and ingenuity of people. Here I was touting around a cake, and some of these artists were creating paintings with balsamic vinegar and chai tea. Amazing!
First up was some beautiful jewelry from Cristina. When you watch our YouTube video on the show, you can hear her philosophy on not wanting to use anything that was new, basically as we have plenty of items available to reuse that goes to waste. She had created necklaces and earrings from shells, and a bracelet and earrings from banana leaves!
Cristina Borgogelli - Shell Jewelery and Banana Leaf weaves
Next up was Marissa Phillips who had stayed up most of the night painting this masterpiece, and it’s vibrant colours truely show the beauty of this goddess she has painted.
Marisa Phillips: Acrylic painting of goddess
Now, of course, as soon as I saw someone else with cake, I was immediately drawn to them, and I have to say that Brigette’s Flower Pot Cake was super cute!! As I was looking at it (and drooling), she happened to mention that she had used “rolled buttercream”. Um, pardon? Rolled, BUTTERCREAM? What the heck? She talked me through the process (which seemed incredibly tedious), but yes, she used a recipe she found for rolled buttercream. Apparently it didn’t turn out the way that she had hoped, but I think it looks great!
Brigitte Franyo (Snowdrift Cafe): Flower pot cake
How cute is this crocheted fruit basket?!
Alisha Anderson: Crochet fruit basket
Alanthea, from Tango Designs in Kimberley (and partner to the host, Ryan) created this stunning dress, embellished of course, with food! What you can’t see in the picture, but you can in the video, are the shoes that go along with it! This girl knows the shoes complete the outfit!
Alanthea Clarkson (Tango Designs): Food embellished dress
On to Ryan, also of Tango Designs, whom painted this watercolour with chai tea, balsamic vinegar and a variety of other culinary liquid mediums. The poem was written by his sister, so apparently he comes from a talented family.
Ryan Doggart (Tango Designs): Chai watercolor painting
Ryan is also the talent sugar artist for the pieces below. Watch the video for his full description of this piece of art.
Ryan Doggart (Tango Designs): blown sugar, pulled sugar art pieces
This piece was a duo submission, by a couple named Andrew and Jenn. What you can’t see in the photo is a poem written by Jenn (but you can see it in the video). The sat down, collaborated and laughingly talked about doing macaroni art in Kindergarten, so you know that got my attention!
Andrew & Jenn: Pasta art, man sitting in the hot spring
Now, if the following piece isn’t every man’s dream of flowers, I don’t know what is! A bacon flower bouquet, complete with a butter vase. YUM!
Jamie Funk & Tylene Turner (Green Door): Butter vase & Bacon roses
It was such a fun evening and a great event to take part in. We met some very talented people, and I am truely in awe of their artistic minds! Thank you to Ryan for organizing this event (and inviting us!), and to the Green Door for hosting! In the video, there are a couple of artists that arrived after we had finished picture taking, but we managed to get video of them, so make sure to check them out too!
