Jonathon Bancroft Snell – Gillian McMillan

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Jonathon opened the boxes

I was astonished to have Jonathon Bancroft-Snell phone me early last Thursday morning. He said the three boxes had arrived.. in less than a week.. and that he planned to include opening them in that day's videotape. He does this every Thursday so that his customers can see what is new each week. Ten minutes later I was ready with my coffee for a happy…

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October 6th, 2020

Loon Teapot 9 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 7 1/4" tall

Gillian's work / Port Moody Art / pottery

Loon Teapot

My kiln was finally cool enough to open yesterday morning and I'm pleased that all the plates and jugbirds look delicious. The loon's lid fits nicely and didn't get stuck in the firing. Now I have a couple of weeks to get eighteen pieces of my work carefully packed and mailed to Jonathon's Gallery in London, Ontario. I already have half a dozen fine soda…

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September 22nd, 2020

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.