Koerner collection – Gillian McMillan

Sharon Reay

The speaker for last Friday's talk to TriCity Potters was Burnaby artist Sharon Reay. Sharon is a potter and sculptor who uses her skill to celebrate her love of the illustrations in old childrens' books. Many of us know Sharon from the many years she worked as the Arts programmer for Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, in Burnaby. For all this time she had a…

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May 30th, 2022

Art shows / Vancouver Art

Debra’s thoughts

Debra Sloan has responded to yesterday's blog about her 'conversation' with Tam Irving and Glenn Lewis. I think it's important to have the BC Potters Guild voluntary historian and archivist have her contribution included in this follow-up discussion. She has sent me more details on her time in St. Ives, the Koerner legacy and mainly her thoughts on my concern about the placement of the…

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November 26th, 2019

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.