Various Vases

TriCity Potters at Deer Lake Art Gallery opening

Lots of our members came to the opening of 'Various Vases' at Deer Lake Art Gallery. I took photos of the pottery and the potters. There was a feeling that the work was well displayed on the plinths, a coffee table and the mantelpiece and that the work was hugely varied and interesting. Some of the drawings complementing the pots were very good and led…

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November 24th, 2012

TriCity Potters

Every once in a while we challenge the members of TriCity Potters to make something they may not ordinarily do. Then we display them and discuss them. We've undertaken handles, butter dishes, bowls, candle holders and now containers for flowers. For this year's challenge we've secured a show time at Burnaby Arts Council's Deer Lake Art Gallery, had 44 pieces entered and now, tomorrow the…

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November 23rd, 2012

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.