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John Lawrence & Daina Augaitis

Collector’s Perspective

CSDA/CCAD (Canadian Society for Decorative Arts/Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs) is a national organization that promotes decorative art and design through one-of-a-kind events, special guest talks, and via their award-winning magazine, Ornamentum. https://www.ornamentum.ca The society hosted a conference in Vancouver this weekend. Attendees were taken to museums, galleries and ECUAD and on Friday evening the general public was also invited to a free talk sponsored…

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September 11th, 2023

Read more about the article Summer Selection

card plates 5 3/4" x 1" set of four $100.

Gillian's work / pottery / Raiders

Summer Selection

When we returned from our week-long stay in cabins at Rathtrevor Beach I had a kiln load of bisqued pots to glaze. There were some pieces made by visiting family members but mainly some plates and jugbirds that I'd made in July. I'm working slowly on these hot, smoky days but finally I took the pots out of the kiln last week. There are fun…

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August 27th, 2023

Read more about the article Axis of Art – Women in Clay

Gillian McMillan - #1-130 Tall Eagle Jug Bird 12 .5x17.5" $300 #2-129 Tall Jug Bird 11.5x9.5 SOLD Thrown in parts then assembled Soda Fired, plus a Bird Vase & an Egg

Art shows / Gillian's work / pottery

Axis of Art – Women in Clay

Some months ago Jonathon invited me to make a couple of special, big jugbirds for a show in the Summer. Only fellow participants in a January soda firing saw what I made but now that the show has opened I can post photos of them. Axis of Art - Women In Clay This is the first installment of a new series of exhibitions celebrating excellence…

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August 20th, 2023

Art shows / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery

An Abundance of Caring: CAIR 1998-2023

When PoMoArts decided to feature its Ceramics Artists in Residence in a show, Gallery Manager Janice Cotter had a complicated task finding them all. It's a fine idea to put us all together and take a look at what work we've done since our time in a studio at the Arts Centre, but who kept a list? Janice has only worked with the clay people…

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August 2nd, 2023

Read more about the article Clay’m to Fame

Jeff Wilson, over the stairs

Art shows / Family / Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery

Clay’m to Fame

This has been rather a special week for me, with events almost every day, and hardly any work in my studio! Briefly, we entertained my Berlin nephew Christopher and his wife and two children for a Port Moody day on Monday. They're spending a packed three weeks driving all around BC. I have no idea if they'll ever see the experimental pottery creations they made…

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July 30th, 2023

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.