Soda Firing – Page 8 – Gillian McMillan

Online Show & Zoom

When Port Moody Arts Centre was forced to close, due to the ever-increasing danger of the spread of Covid 19, artwork in the three recently-opened shows remained in an empty building. Determined that this disappointing turn of events wouldn't be a disaster for the artists, PoMoArts executive director Fatima Amarshi, Gallery Manager Janice Cotter and Media Relations Coordinator Caitlin Hill have devised an initial plan…

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April 4th, 2020

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November Nuggets

Your first thought when you've taken your latest pots out of a group atmospheric firing is not necessarily ecstatic. Linda Doherty says that she's never really satisfied on the first day. When I saw that at least two pots weren't quite 'done' I thought that I'd just take all the work home and look at them in the morning. One or two seemed to be…

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November 29th, 2019

good colour!

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Good Firing

Finally we were allowed to see how the most recent firing of Shadbolt Centre's Soda kiln had turned out. It was a sunny, if rather cold Tuesday afternoon so we formed a line and passed the retrieved pots along to tables set up outside. You'll see that the first glimpse showed quite a lot of grey orange peel but as we turned the pieces around…

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November 29th, 2019

Art shows / local pottery shows / pottery / Soda Firing

Amy Chang, & Firing the Soda Kiln

It has been a very busy week in my world of clay. A week ago today I took my two cubic feet of pots to the Shadbolt soda kiln for wadding and left them there. The next day Linda, Jay and Tony loaded the kiln and then I saw Linda again that evening out at UBC for the opening of 'Playing With Fire'. …

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November 27th, 2019

Read more about the article Tall Bird & Cookie Jar

Grooved Lidded Jar 5 1/4" x 6 1/2"

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Tall Bird & Cookie Jar

To follow yesterday's blog I'll add another brief one now to show better photos of my recent soda-fired pots. I think TriCity Potters were pleased overall with the results of our second group soda firing. Most people were happy with the flashing and some generous orange peel effects. I was most anxious about my Tall Bird.…

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April 29th, 2019

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.