Santo Mignosa – Gillian McMillan

Walter Dexter with a few of his works 2011. Photo by Susan Gorris

Walter Dexter

Guest blog by 'Art in the Country' director and TriCity potter, Susan Gorris http://www.timescolonist.com/obituary-victoria-ceramics-artist-walter-dexter-a-canadian-giant-1.1974949 Prompted by the recent death of Victoria BC artist Walter Dexter, friend and fellow TriCity potter Susan Gorris sent me some fine photos of him, taken four years ago. She had accompanied fellow sculptor Santo Mignosa to a reception celebrating BC's well-known clay artists in Victoria. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria…

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July 1st, 2015

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Santo Mignosa spoke to TriCity Potters

North Vancouver potter and sculptor Santo Mignosa was our speaker at the TriCity Potters' monthly meeting last night. Santo was born in Sicily into a clay family. Tiles, bricks and quicklime were made from the local beach sand. He says that pots made with that mixture of sand, sea water and sea algae for clay held water even though they were earthenware. Salt glaze? …

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May 17th, 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.