shino – Gillian McMillan

My 14 pots

My Mergatroid Moments

During 2022 I've been following the news about firings in the Potters' Guild of BC gas kiln. Funding was secured and the current board purchased a big Bailey kiln from Emily Carr U. Thanks to the enthusiastic manager of the Mergatroid Artists Studio building, Morley Faber, it has now been installed on a levelled, covered concrete pad next to the building. Technicians have been trained,…

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December 19th, 2022

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Lidded temmoku Jar 1988 7" x 7"

Some ‘historic’ pots

Here we are half way into January and so far 2021 doesn't appear to be any different from most of 2020.. horrid. Alan and I are keeping strictly to ourselves with the hope of avoiding Covid19 while we wait to get vaccinated. Now it looks as if our turn for a jab is delayed until later in the Spring. …

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January 19th, 2021

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.