Patrick Hughes – Gillian McMillan

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Recently Al and I spent a happy afternoon on South Granville street checking all the galleries. Highlights were: finding BC Binning paintings in the downstairs show at Art Emporium, the amusing, slightly mind-boggling reverse-perspective work by Patrick Hughes at the Winsor Gallery and the Joe Fafard sculptures in the new 'Masters Gallery Ltd.' We walked across 4th Avenue into the now trendy Armoury District to…

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October 15th, 2012

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Vancouver Art Gallery, Georgia Hotel

On Saturday we took a long overdue visit to the Vancouver Art Gallery. This summer's big show is "The Colour of My Dreams: the Surrealist Revolution in Art" with some 300 works from museums and private collections featuring Surrealist work, with an emphasis on the influence of Pacific Northwest art within this vast movement. Lots to take in! Another floor of the gallery houses large…

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August 3rd, 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.