The majority of groups and individuals who attend our pottery workshops in the Summer admire the beauty of our rural Herefordshire location – the sun always seems to shine in Eastnor! However, it looks pretty good in the snow too! Here’s a selection of photos from the recent cold snap.
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The language of clay
Love this clay pizza made by a particularly creative 4 year old at Ledbury Primary School. Over the next six weeks we’re going to be exploring language, communication and building relationships via the magnificant medium of clay…oh yeah, and having a lot of fun too. Parents and carers are invited to join their children as they grapple with the potter’s wheel, coil-pot and slab building techniques.
Thumbs up at Pottery Party
Isla selected ‘Funky fruit’ from our list of clay projects for her pottery birthday party session.
Here she is, with a little help from dad, in the prelimery stages of creating a hollow banana. Probably the most litteral interpretation of ‘thumb pot’ we’ve ever seen!
Children’s 1/2 term workshops
Children’s pottery workshops at Eastnor Pottery 20 & 21 Feb 2013 ‘Bird Bath’
Another fantastic themed opportunity for young potters to get their hands on real clay. Come and make a pottery bird bath on the potter’s wheel to celebrate National Wild Bird Feeding Month. Fun packed, hands-on and totally creative activity. 4-8 yrs on Wed 20th & 9-12yrs on Thurs 21st (guide only as younger and older siblings will never be turned away) Sessions 11.30am-1pm & 2pm-3.30pm on both days. £15 per child (10% discount for x3 or more places booked)Telephone and email booking essential. Tel: 01531 633886 or admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk
Terracotta army of misfits
The terracotta figures made in collaboration with Ashton Under Hill First School in Worcestershire have nearly all emerged from the kiln – and mighty fine they look too.
Each figure has been worked on by three students, each child making either a head, torso or legs. I took the body parts away and joined them in random fashion creating an army of fantastical creatures and hybrids – think of the drawing game consequences…but in 3d…made out of clay and you’ll get the idea.
