Artists for Kids – Gillian McMillan

Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art

Last Saturday Oct. 13th Al and I and our friends Roy and Maureen drove over to North Vancouver for the opening day of the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. After many years of operating 'Artists for Kids' in a local school the school board now has a brand-new building and has designated the lowest two floors for a gallery. The permanent collection of Canadian…

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October 19th, 2012

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North Shore Art

The other day we drove over to North Vancouver to see a new exhibit at the Museum: 'Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection'. It was the first day it was open. Featured are baskets, carvings and other First Nations artwork by the Squamish people, given to Maisie and her husband Tom for the advocacy work they did. That evening one 3/4 size mask…

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January 29th, 2011

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.