slip-painting – Gillian McMillan

Bluebeard jugbird

Summer Flock

On the morning after we returned from an eventful holiday on Vancouver Island I happily unloaded the latest glaze firing. For once the kiln contained only my work! Now most of these new jugbirds have been delivered to Granville Island, to Circle Craft Co-op where I had NONE left, and to the Gallery of BC Ceramics. I'll post…

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August 16th, 2017

Yunomis and more

I expect it was the Gallery of BC Ceramics' call for yunomis that got me thinking about making some again. Lots of atmospheric-firing people like to make these Oriental-inpired handle-less cups but I've always felt that if I prefer to drink tea or coffee out of a mug or cup with a handle then I shouldn't mess with another culture. But the form is…

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February 14th, 2017

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.