slip-painted earthenware – Gillian McMillan

Those jugbirds

I threw these ten jug bird bodies back in early October and kept them moist until I had time to continue working on them. Here they are just over a week ago when I had thrown a few more and I had got them all assembled with spouts and handles and slip-painted, waiting to dry. And this is a photo of my work from…

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November 26th, 2016

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New Jugbirds for ArtWalk

When clouds weren't obscuring the lovely sun yesterday morning I dashed outside and photographed my brand-new jugbirds on a suitable tree stump or garden walkway, wherever a bird might happen to hesitate. Later in the day I enjoyed a jaunt in to Granville Island. At Circle Craft I borrowed back half a dozen of my best salt-fired pieces to show to ArtWalk guests. And Vincent…

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April 12th, 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.