clay – Gillian McMillan

Port Moody clay

I had an interesting email request the other day. Woojae Kim, a Vancouver resident who is currently a grad student at Bard College in NY state, asked me about finding local clay in Port Moody. Somehow he had found a blog which mentioned that I had found clay near our home in old Port Moody. Two stories here: In the first our house was very…

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April 19th, 2022

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Tennessee visitor

I've been home for two weeks now and I haven't opened the bag of earthenware clay to start work again. Tomorrow... For the last week we've been billetting Vince Pitelka while he gave a 'coloured clay' workshop at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby - about 15 mins from here. Al and he had long conversations about pots and archaeology. Nice.We also talked about salt firing.…

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July 19th, 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.