Eric Metcalfe – Page 10 – Gillian McMillan

Kiln opening day

My first blog for December.. It has taken me several weeks to make 17 jugbirds (really with Christmas in mind) and a few other pieces. The cone 04 firing went well, the slips and the one 'Radiant Red' underglaze all did their thing nicely. I chose to make a casserole with a lid, which I almost never do now, for a friend and hooray! the…

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December 2nd, 2010

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Eric Metcalfe likes to paint on clay

On Monday I used the lovely Canada Line skytrain to take some more pots to YVR airport Crafthouse. So convenient. Then I rode it all the way downtown to go to the passport office in Sinclair Centre. Off to UK and Turkey later this month.. I popped into the Western Front in Mount Pleasant to drop off two plates for artist Eric Metcalfe. I'd made…

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September 1st, 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.