James Kemp – Gillian McMillan

Evocativa Curiosa

'Evocativa Curiosa’ Exhibition Featuring work by Debbie Cheung, Diane Espiritu, Darcy Greiner, Leon Popik, David Robinson and Clive Tucker. Showing: February 7—March 4 On Thursday evening I attended the opening of this show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. It was great to meet the six artists and to see what each person is working on. All the work refers slightly to the body…

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February 10th, 2013

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

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.