Eastnor Pottery and The Flying Potter - Pottery Experiences for families, groups and individuals
I was fortunate to spend x4 very creative and messy days in January at St Benedicts Infants School in Birmingham, working with the lovely children and staff in the Nursery.
We explored soft clay on the potter’s wheel as well as fired ceramic sculpture specifically designed for the U5’s to play with.
Here’s a clay pirate transformed from a bag of clay. Click here for some more lovely clay creations made by the children.
We’ve teamed up again with those lovely folk at Creative Alliance to offer a brand new apprentiship post here at Eastnor Pottery central.
Back in 2013 our partnership with Creative Alliance presented us with Ethan, a local 19 year old who applied for our Community Apprentice post. Ethan, (featured) completed his qualification with flying colours and now works x3 days a week for us, leading workshops not only here at the Pottery but in schools all over the West Midlands.
This time we are looking for a creative and motivated individual to assist with and develop our online profile.
Full application details and job description can be found here on the Creative Alliance website.
The children’s picture book Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs provided the inspiration for my most recent clay adventure with Washwood Heath Nursery School in Birmingham.
The children’s pottery skills and creativity develop at an alarming pace and at this point in the academic year, I like to challenge their making skills. I’d initially planned an activity cutting and assembling clay slabs but changed at the last minute as they were obviously enthralled by the teachers reading of the story book.
So we rolled coils of clay and constructed a clay bucket filled with the children’s hand modelled dinosaurs. Pictured left, a magnificent Brachiosaurus.
I seem to have spent the majority of the Autumn term whizzing up the M5 to work with the children and staff at x3 of the most creative Nursery Schools in Birmingham.
They are Washwood Heath Nursery, Brearley Nursery and Lillian De Lissa Nursery.
Although the driving is tedious at the best of times, the rewards far outweigh the time and effort it takes to get there. Here are a series of photos of clay creations made by the young and totally inspiring minds from all three settings.
You get to meet some talented staff and parents when you work with as many schools as we do.
Whilst working at Lickey Hills Primary in Bromsgrove making collaborative pots with 260 children in a day (I kid you not!) we were photographed by a professional photographer who just happened to be a parent at the school.
Henriette Lang specialises in family portraits and current work can be spied right here on her Facebook page.
Henriette’s photos were also featured in the local paper.
