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My SHUFFLE

Port Moody's version of a Culture Crawl/ArtWalk, our SHUFFLE, happened last night. We worried as the marvellous volunteers brought signs and a feather flag, in the rain, but the skies cleared for the duration of the Shuffle. TriCity potter Jade turned up in the afternoon with baby Jet and filled my bird vase with tall flowers from my garden. They really lent a festive air…

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June 15th, 2024

Art shows / local pottery shows / pottery

unearthed: Mitra Mahmoodi & Jamal Tabasinejad

The other day I noticed that a Vancouver ceramic artist we'd invited to speak to TriCity Potters, Mitra Mahmoodi, was in a two-person show, along with fellow Iranian-Canadian artist Jamal Tabasinejad, at our local Evergreen Cultural Centre Gallery in Coquitlam. Somehow I missed the opening but I saw that there was to be a curator's talk about the show last Friday. At 12.30pm I joined…

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June 6th, 2024

Read more about the article Tuesday Treasures

Bird Vase 12.25" x 6"

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

Tuesday Treasures

What a week it's been! As you saw we emptied the soda kiln last Tuesday. On the Wednesday I took better photos of each pot so you can get a better look at the varied slip surfaces that appeared. I've also made another reel which shows the back of our house and then inside the kiln shed, where I have my light box, and a…

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June 3rd, 2024

My 15 pots, including the re-fired teapot

Art shows / Gillian's work / Port Moody Art / pottery / Soda Firing

May Soda

Tuesday was the day I've been waiting for. At 1.30pm sharp the team were all there, waiting to start the unloading of the 107th firing of the Soda kiln at Shadbolt Centre. The kiln is showing its age, with some nasty chunks having fallen into pots which were placed on the bottom ledge of the door. Tony was considering whether repairs are in order or…

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May 30th, 2024

Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Port Moody Art / pottery / pottery studio visits / Soda Firing

Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024

Deadlines are good! I booked myself in to join a soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's Vault kiln on May 22nd. So, at the beginning of May, I cleaned the red earthenware out of my wheel and started work with Plainsman H555 and Georgie's Umpqua cone 10 stoneware clay. I made my two cubic feet quota of ware, including carved bowls, jugbirds and more, and bisque-fired…

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May 26th, 2024

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.