Western Front – Page 5 – Gillian McMillan

Painting, meetings, kiln loaded..

Suddenly I'm busy, busy! It's amazing what deadlines will encourage. The airport wants their order right now and as many jugbirds as I have on hand. On Tuesday I had 10 completed but unpainted. On Wednesday the first of two 'Painting Raids' took place, when 3 of a planned 8 artists painted my oval plates for a Western Front fund-raiser in March. That evening…

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January 18th, 2013

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Eric Metcalfe likes to paint on clay

On Monday I used the lovely Canada Line skytrain to take some more pots to YVR airport Crafthouse. So convenient. Then I rode it all the way downtown to go to the passport office in Sinclair Centre. Off to UK and Turkey later this month.. I popped into the Western Front in Mount Pleasant to drop off two plates for artist Eric Metcalfe. I'd made…

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September 1st, 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.