Visiting artists – Page 40 – Gillian McMillan

Painting, meetings, kiln loaded..

Suddenly I'm busy, busy! It's amazing what deadlines will encourage. The airport wants their order right now and as many jugbirds as I have on hand. On Tuesday I had 10 completed but unpainted. On Wednesday the first of two 'Painting Raids' took place, when 3 of a planned 8 artists painted my oval plates for a Western Front fund-raiser in March. That evening…

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January 18th, 2013

Visiting artists

Latest painted plates by Eric, Monique & Renee

When I got home from Abbotsford today Al had started to photograph yesterday's hot new pots. These are the plates painted at the latest Painting Raid. Monique Fouquet painted a platter with transparent ovals on grey. Renée van Halm painted four plates with bold versions of her collages. And Eric Metcalfe painted his designs with red and black on…

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December 4th, 2012

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.