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First meeting for TriCity Potters in new venue – PMSS

This Wednesday, Sept 15th the first meeting of the new season for TriCity Potters will be held at Port Moody Senior Secondary School in Room 214 (or alternate room will be posted). We start at 7pm with announcements of upcoming programming and opportunities. After coffee and chat I will give a presentation all about my month in Medicine Hat, attending the Medalta International Artist-in-Residence Program.…

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September 13th, 2010

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TriCity Potters show opens

TriCity Potters' first show opened last Thursday evening in the 3D Gallery of Port Moody's Arts Centre. The two ceramic and two painting shows were enthusiastically received. Here are photos of those potters I managed to catch next to their work. I've made a picasa album of images of all the work - it's too many photos for here. http://picasaweb.google.com/gillianmcmillan1/TriCityPotters2010PortMoodyAC?feat=email# Eliza Wang Myrta Hayes Grace…

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September 13th, 2010

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Keith Rice-Jones’ show ‘Size Matters’

Yesterday Alan and I went in to Granville Island for the opening of Keith Rice-Jones' show 'Size Matters' at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. He worked on the ideas for these large garden pieces while on a 3-month solo residency at Sturt Pottery in Australia. The work looked fine in the gallery space, on plain concrete, in September sunshine. As gallery manager Sharon Cohen said,…

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September 5th, 2010

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Eric Metcalfe likes to paint on clay

On Monday I used the lovely Canada Line skytrain to take some more pots to YVR airport Crafthouse. So convenient. Then I rode it all the way downtown to go to the passport office in Sinclair Centre. Off to UK and Turkey later this month.. I popped into the Western Front in Mount Pleasant to drop off two plates for artist Eric Metcalfe. I'd made…

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September 1st, 2010

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Glaze firings in the lower mainland

As the summer draws to its end I'm trying to finish some more birds. The airport Crafthouse ordered another 8 medium so that's always an incentive to get a kiln filled. Here are some drying in the lovely sunshine. Interesting news is that Keith RJ phoned to tell me that he and Celia liked the display in Circle Craft's window and that he planned to…

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August 27th, 2010

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.