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Lighthouse Family workshop sessions

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Lighthouse family pottery workshop in the Christmas holidays 2013Children’s & Family Pottery Workshop Sessions ‘Light House’ Mon 30 Dec 2013

Grown-ups will get the chance to work alongside their children at our family workshops in the Christmas holidays. A morning and afternoon session will take place on Monday 30th December.

‘Lighthouse’ provides the theme with each participant using the coil pot technique to build a pottery lantern to brighten up the darkest of winter evenings.

Once the main light house structure has been constructed, you will get to paint your creations on the day with a myriad of coloured slips. Your masterpieces will be left to dry before being fired and glazed in the Pottery kilns, ready for collection from the studio towards the end of January 2014.

You can sign-up to either the 11.30am-1pm or 2-3.30pm session and  places cost £15 per person with a 10% discount for x3 or more places booked. Telephone or email booking essential. Tel: 01531 633886 or admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk

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Catshill First School @ 100

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preparation for tile panelMassive project!

Worked with all 215 pupils at Catshill First School in Bromsgrove to make a collaborative tile panel. Each child and member of staff made an individual tile to commemorate the schools centenary.

Once all the tiles have been fired and glazed, they will be assembled, like a giant pottery jigsaw into a huge image of the school’s facade.

Quite a lot of planning and preparation go into these collaborative feats and I’ve created a mini facebook photo album illustrating the process. Potting by numbers!

The project was part funded by Atrix.

pen and ink drawing of catshill first school

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Daisy’s pottery party

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eastnor pottery at daisy's birthday partyMost of our children’s pottery birthday parties take place here at Eastnor Pottery HQ. Not so on Daisy’s big day!

Mum & Dad hired out the local village hall and filled it with ‘hundreds’ (?) of seven somethings, all keen to try their hand at a bit of clay work.

We all had a fabulous afternoon with maximum focus and care lavished upon the pottery critters. There was even time (and hall space) once the clay had been safely stored, to run off some of that pent-up, boundless 7yr old energy. A proper good balance of concentrated making and physical exuberance.

Loving the personalised aprons and tied dyed bunting. Well done Mum!

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Happy Craftplay

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Happy museums craftplay project at Bilston Craft GalleryTaking part in a fantastic project at Bilston Craft Gallery in Wovehampton.

Here’s the blurb from the ‘Happy Museums’ blog:

WAVE and Craftspace will work together at Bilston Craft Gallery to deliver a programme of creative engagement sessions with early years’ children and their carers working with craft makers to explore creative play and the natural environment – investigating the part craft plays in developing a sustainable future. By taking the world around us as a teacher and actively interacting with it we seek to inspire children with an appreciation of the environment and its systems, and enrich their self-belief through creating things themselves by hand. There is an acute need to support basic wellbeing in the area immediately around Bilston Craft Gallery which has high concentrations of children living in poverty and high levels of deprivation.  The sessions will provide a rich, inspiring and fun learning environment where curiosity, confidence and social development can be nurtured.

Following on from the hands-on sessions with the children, myself and the other two artists Annemarie O’Sullivan & Corrie Williamson will produce a commission to be used as an early learning resource for Craftplay. Love the balance of engagement and personal making associated with this project.

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