Thomas Toft – Gillian McMillan

3 more photos from England’s pottery tradition

While I was rambling around my birthplace county, Dorset, with my sister Mary, Alan took a bus up to Oxford. He always enjoys the Pitt Rivers Museum for its eclectic array of Archaeologia. In the Ashmolean Museum he photographed these two images for me. The first features work by Seth Cardew, John Maltby (I really like his sculptures. His jug here is a nice interpretation…

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November 14th, 2010

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pots in Cambridge

We spent a day in Cambridge on Oct 6th. Our ramble through the city took us past Primavera, one of the best Fine Crafts Galleries. We always check it out to see their latest selection of great pots. There were teapots by Walter Keeler and others. I was amused by Jennie Hale's raku birds. The other important destination for me is the Fitzwilliam Museum. I…

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November 9th, 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.