Williams Lake – Gillian McMillan

My workshop weekend in Williams Lake

What did I do for my workshop in Williams Lake? After an enjoyable Greyhound bus ride (8.15am - 4.15pm) up the Fraser Canyon, then beside the Thompson River and north up the Cariboo Highway, Joan Beck met me. As before, when I gave a workshop to Cariboo Potters in 2000, I stayed for the three nights with Joan and her husband Reg. Their home is…

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May 26th, 2014

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Cariboo Potters

This time last week I had just completed a two-day workshop for the Cariboo Potters Guild of Williams Lake. I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend so many miles away from the city, and I hope that the potters I met all found some part of my process useful. There were people attending who were new to clay and keen to learn as much as possible about…

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May 25th, 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.