Two Day Pottery Workshop

Would you like to join the Pottery Revolution? Let me share my tips and tricks for you to create fabulous functional ware at home - without a wheel!!For the July Workshop, we will focus on vessels with a lid - cannisters, tagines, casseroles... anything that requires a lid. We will show you how to shape your pottery, add interest, create a gallery for the lid to sit on... the you'll be limited by your imagination. We will share a variety of skills to add individuality and creativity to your work – impression, monoprinting, stencilling, slab cutting and re-joining as well as adding texture, and a range of colour using oxide, underglaze, engobe and glaze to achieve just the right finish you’re looking for! This workshop in August will focus on taking texture to a new level. Learn to make stamps, rollers and stencils to create interest and enhance your work and individuality. Once you've created your stamps and rollers, you'll use them to create amazing functional-ware. We will teach you how to use slabs to create flat 2 and 3 dimensional designs and then cutting, embellishing and reassembling to create functional pieces which will open up a whole new world of possibilities.For the August Workshop, you'll make a selection of stamps and rollers with whatever designs you like and then make a mug or plate using an array of textures and soon you'll be making baskets, pedestal bowls and so much more. You'll be limited only by your imagination!We will share a variety of skills to add individuality and creativity to your work – impression, monoprinting, stencilling, slab cutting and re-joining as well as adding texture, and a range of colour using oxide, underglaze, engobe and glaze to achieve just the right finish you’re looking for! In the second class on August 9th, your stamps and rollers will have been fired and you will use these to make your next piece of functional or decorative pottery.Cost includes both days. Classes will be held on: Sunday 2nd August at 11am-3.30pm. and Sunday 9th August at 11am - 3.30pm. The classes includes instruction, clay, tools, grazing lunch, tea and coffee, and the firing of your work. plenty of hands on experience and instruction, clay, tools, grazing lunch, tea and coffee and the firing of your creations. Read more details