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Prehistoric clay

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:09:04 +0000

We spent five busy and rewarding days working in the fabulous courtyard at Eastnor Castle making collaborative, terracotta dinosuar heads.

The t-rex, triceratops and three raptors will be fired, photographed and splashed across all our social media channels in the coming months.

Each day we took a series of photographs documenting the Jurassic creativity:

Mudrunner Classic 2015

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:18:55 +0000

Terribly sad that the 2015 Mudrunner Classic held in October was likely to be the last Mudrunner event held in Eastnor. Team Eastnor Pottery have taken part in the race nearly as long as we’ve been making the clay medals presented to those who actually make it to the finish line. We’ll be very sad to see it go and must congratulate Mudrunner organisers D3, on the magnificent job of facilitating the event over the past six years. #sad

The wedding vases

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:42:28 +0000

Dont know how we did it but we somehow manged to make, fire and glaze these rather tasty flower vases inside 10 days!

A bride and groom who were tying the knot in the Castle wanted to gift their guests something special and unique to Eastnor. (I think we ticked all the boxes here!)

Before they could take them away, the vases were filled with beautiful blooms supplied by Oops a Daisy and displayed in the guest’s bedrooms.

Eastnor drain covers

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:00:45 +0000

We like a challenge here at Eastnor Pottery.

Phil, one of the Estate workers asked if we could replace a broken pottery drain cover for one of the sewers in the Castle grounds. Those of you in the know will appreciate that clay does an awfull lot of shrinking, not only as it drys, but as it’s fired in the kiln as well. It’s not uncommon for certain types of clay to undergo a 20% reduction in size from soft squidgy stuff to fired ceramic.

In order to get a good fit, Ethan made several lids on the potter’s wheel with varying diameters and thicknesses. We are hoping that at least one will do the job – we’ll let you know the outcome…dont go away now!

Terracotta Pheasants

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:41:09 +0000

We may have entered the shooting season but guns most definitely will not be encouraged to take pot shots at these handsome pottery game birds currently sheltering in the Pottery garden.

Five amazing collaborative fowl were created by families who visited Eastnor Castle during the Summer Holidays.

Each year the Castle invites us to run a week long residency in the Castle Courtyard where visitors drop by and work together on large composite forms.

Everybody lends a hand to coil whatever we decide to make by layering long snakes of clay on top of each other. The surface is then smoothed off and individual clay models added to the form. This Summer, participants contributed pheasant feathers, each one decorated in an individual fashion based upon personal interests. I reckon we must have worked with over 1000 people, young and old during the week!

The five birds will go on display in The Priory Cleaners window in Ledbury high street from Friday 17^th October. Participants who took part in the workshops are urged to drop by the dry cleaners window to see if they can spot their clay contribution.

More pheasant photos.

A pheasant week at Eastnor Castle

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:41:27 +0000

We love working at Eastnor Castle, offering visitors the chance to collaborate on significant clay sculptures.

In the past we’ve made knights, a castle, a dragon and even an Estate inspired totem pole.

This year, well over 1000 visitors help make x5 amazing terracotta pheasants. The birds have been constructed and are waiting to be fired. As soon as the fowl are out of the kilns we’ll photograph them and post the pics online. We’ll also exhibit them in the Dry Cleaners window in Ledbury probably around October time.

Twit twoo

Jon — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:29:25 +0000

Here they are then, the three magnificent collaborative terracotta owls created at Eastnor Castle during my week long residency back in August.

Once October 1/2 term is out of the way, we’ll exhibit them in the Priory Cleaners window in Ledbury High Street.

Muddles!

Jon — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:35:19 +0000

And so it begins!

Lottie attends to the first batch of 3500 Mud Runner medals due for delivery in time for the race in Oct.

Flying Potter @ Eastnor Castle

Jon — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:31:32 +0000

Loved my annual residency at Eastnor Castle. Spent x4 sunny days working with hundreds of children and families making collaborative terracotta owls. The results of which will be fired and displayed online and in the Dry Cleaners window in Ledbury high street sometime in October. In the meantime please take a look at all the clay fun photos on our FB page. We’ve created an album for each day – which day did you go?

#mudrunner medals

Jon — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:02:02 +0000

3500 done & dusted. Looking forward to the 21st. Mudrunner.