Upcoming workshops at Clay@The Fold
A masterclass with Patricia Shone at Clay@The Fold
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Title: Creating Texture
Artist: Patricia Shone
Date: 24th & 25th February 2024
Timings: 0930 for 10am to 4.30pm
Venue: Clay@The Fold, Bransford, Worcester, WR6 5JB
About Patricia
I have been living and working on the Isle of Skye for the past 25 years and have felt my work to be informed and inspired by this powerful landscape. I love wilder more challenging land and seascapes. Beneath the thin soils of the Highlands, eroded and carved by time, weather and human activity, lies the constant and immutable presence of rock. The form which lies beneath the changing surface.
There is an inherent inspiration in a person's fundamental being. I believe an artist’s work can be a search to find expression for this, consciously or unconsciously. This is the deep essence in a work which connects one human being to another. The form beneath the surface.
I think of my work as part of the journey towards understanding my place in life. I can’t separate it from my experience of living in this landscape or from the path that brought me here. Texture has featured in my work since college days. But it was a masterclass with Shozo Michikawa in 2008 which really set me on my current course. A shoulder injury later on forced me to change my practices which ultimately led to the Erosion Collection for which I am known. After many years of developing this work, I feel I understand the techniques well enough to begin to share them.
About the workshop
This will be a very hands on practical workshop. Patricia will lead this intensive two day class during which you can expect plenty of demonstrations but equally lots of opportunity try out some of Patricia's making processes under her close guidance.
The course includes bisque firing of three pieces per person with additional pieces fired for a small additional charge.
Max of 12 students.
Please ensure you read and accept the Terms and Conditions before booking onto a course as these contain relevant information regarding cancellation and course refunds.
A masterclass with Ben Fosker at Clay@The Fold
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Title: Playful Slipware
Artist: Ben Fosker
Date: 23rd & 24th March 2024
Timings: 0930 for 10am to 4.30pm
Venue: Clay@The Fold, Bransford, Worcester, WR6 5JB
We are just thrilled that Ben has agreed to come the The Fold to deliver one of his hugely popular masterclasses.
Ben is internationally recognised for his strikingly playful ceramic artworks. Ben will lead a packed two day workshop making and decorating slip decorated figurative earthenware animals.
Participants can each expect to complete at least one figurative sculpture but there are always additional extras when ben leads a workshop so be prepared to decorate plates sand make 'fast' animal sculptures at small scale too.
Participants will have their figurative animal sculpture glaze fired as part of the course fees. Any additional pots fired will attract a small additional fee.
Max of 12 students.
Please ensure you read and accept the Terms and Conditions before booking onto a course as these contain relevant information regarding cancellation and course refunds.
A masterclass with Wendy Lawrence at Clay@The Fold
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Title: Creating Texture
Artist: Wendy Lawrence
Date: 27ht & 28th April 2024
Timings: 0930 for 10am to 4.30pm
Venue: Clay@The Fold, Bransford, Worcester, WR6 5JB
About the Workshop
Wendy Lawrence will be demonstrating the techniques that she has developed over 25 years of working with clay. You will learn a variety of hand-building techniques and methods of surface decoration, carving and texture. solid forms, constructing using plaster moulds and formers - all to create sculptural objects.
You will make at least one piece that will be fired through to bisque using solid and slab built combinations of techniques.
Demonstration and workshops will include:
- Clay Preparation
- Solid Dorms
- Slab Building
- Coiling and Additions
- Carved Surface Pattern
- Form
- Carving Textures
- Building up Layers to create 3-D surfaces
- Combined Techniques
- Glazes and their application (discussion only)
Fees include all materials and bisque firing for one piece (additional pieces can be fired for a small additional charge if required)
Max of 12 students.
Please ensure you read and accept the Terms and Conditions before booking onto a course as these contain relevant information regarding cancellation and course refunds.