‘Put a Bird On It’ – Gillian McMillan

Celia Rice-Jones, Henny Penny Pot

Put a Bird On It

The current show at the Gallery of BC Ceramics 'Put a Bird On It' is open to all BC Potters' Guild members. The slightly fanciful title of the show refers to a quotation from the popular TV show, Portlandia. I gather that it's an often mentioned suggestion for marketing! But it has allowed us to produce slightly silly creations for this show. Certainly it seemed…

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September 1st, 2014

Purple Gallinule Jugbird

Gillian's work / local pottery shows

Purple Gallinule jugbird

Opening the kiln the other day was, as usual, rather exciting. Not only did it contain the tiles painted by TriCity Potters but there were a dozen of my jugbirds in it too. The freshly mixed glaze behaved properly. I set the end 'soak' for 30 mins this time to try to make sure there were no bubbles from the melting, and no, there weren't.…

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August 26th, 2014

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.