Eastnor Pottery and The Flying Potter - Pottery Experiences for families, groups and individuals
It’s pottery hen party season again at Eastnor Pottery!
These lovely ladies (and a couple of mini potters for good measure!) spent a relaxing afternoon making and painting coil-pot creations in the studio.
Their ceramic masterpieces will be fired, glazed and returned to the group in time for Emily the hen to distribute on her big day.
We’ve published a few photos on our Facebook page.
Somebody’s very proud of their pot!
Had a lovely afternoon working on the potter’s wheel with families at the new Orchard Vale Children’s Centre in Evesham.
I’ve recently been facilitating workshops with different groups in and around Cirencester. These sessions have been connected with my solo exhibition, Sensational Clay currently on show in the gallery space at New Brewery Arts. On Monday and Thursday I had the pleasure of working with Yr4 students from Robinswood primary school in Gloucester.
The children were split into two groups. I Worked with half the group in Russ’ ceramic studio at the Arts Centre, exploring their ‘Alive alive oh’ cross curricular theme. We made some lovely pinch-pot mini-beasts and animals in coil-pot habitats.
The other half of the group visited the exhibition with exhibition’s officer Aderyn, an artist printmaker in her own right. The children were encouraged to make, touch and play with the exhibits as well as making observational drawings. The pencil sketches were amazing and I’ve posted a few examples on our facebook page.
Photographer Ieva Mihelsone has been working with us over the past 6 months or so capturing the magic of what goes on here at Eastnor Pottery. She’s taken some beautiful shots of our course participants both young and old. More recently she played around with some of my pots and sculptures with different effects and backgrounds etc. The results are amazing and transform the objects in all kinds of ways. I’m planning to publish a lot of Ieva’s great work in the not too distant future. In the meantime, feast your eyes on this photo of a couple of my ‘rattle pots’.
Spent a day sharing the delights of working with clay with youngsters at New Brewery Arts Gallery in Cirencester. Using my exhibition ‘Sensational Clay’ as inspiration we made models and sculptures selecting basic hand-building pottery techniques.
The children took their creations away on the day to paint at home.
My exhibition comes to an end at the gallery on April 29th.
