Dave Dobie – Page 2 – Gillian McMillan

Teamwork

I tried very hard not to expect too much as I drove out to Abbotsford for the third time on Saturday. On Tuesday I'd taken my 44 pieces out to Herman Venema's pottery workshop and together Herman, Dave Dobie and I loaded the big salt kiln. There is no build-up of salt on the inside walls and the shelves and posts were all painted with…

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December 10th, 2012

Gillian's work

Salt!

Tomorrow I shall drive out to Abbotsford to join Dave Dobie and Herman Venema in loading the salt kiln on Herman's property. On Wednesday when we're salting it'll be the first time I've been able to participate in a salt-only firing in 2 1/2 years, since the fabulous month-long residency in Medicine Hat in 2010. Since then I have had pots fired in salt, mainly…

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December 3rd, 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.