grooved pot – Gillian McMillan

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Grooved Lidded Jar 5 1/4" x 6 1/2"

Tall Bird & Cookie Jar

To follow yesterday's blog I'll add another brief one now to show better photos of my recent soda-fired pots. I think TriCity Potters were pleased overall with the results of our second group soda firing. Most people were happy with the flashing and some generous orange peel effects. I was most anxious about my Tall Bird.…

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April 29th, 2019

Gillian's work / Port Moody Art / pottery / Soda Firing

Ram Rhytons and stoneware

Where did March go? A month ago we had a horrendous snowfall and now we're right into a glorious Spring. I planned to complete the making and slip-painting of any red earthenware pots I had on hand early in the month so that I could clean out my wheel and start making pieces for the TriCity Potters' soda firing, using grey Plainsman stoneware clay. But…

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April 7th, 2019

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.