Bernard Leach – Gillian McMillan

Glenn Lewis

Wednesday evening's meeting of the TriCity Potters was held in my studio/basement because the local schools are on Spring Break. We rented some folding chairs and with a screen and our projector we managed well. 25 people attended to hear our guest Glenn Lewis. He spoke about his two years as a Leach apprentice in St Ives and more about the philosophy of pots and…

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March 23rd, 2012

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More ceramics at the V & A

Here are some more photos from the V & A Museum, taken the next day, October 2nd, when Al accompanied me there. We had spent the morning at the ever-popular Portobello Road Antique Market. There still wasn't time to see all the Ceramics, let alone any other part of this great museum. Today's photos show shelves of English salt-glazed wine bottles, oodles of Iznik ware…

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November 4th, 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.