Surface Exploration and Advanced Slab-building with Verity Howard

We’re delighted to welcome Verity Howard to Clay Shed for a weekend of surface decoration and advanced slab-building.

The two day workshop will alternate between demonstrations, making sessions and decorating activities based on Verity’s own work. You’ll be introduced to new techniques as the workshop progresses and encouraged to use these as a springboard to develop your own interpretations and ideas.

This exploratory workshop is designed to help participants:

+Develop their repertoire of decorating and slab-building techniques

+Embrace acts of improvisation and spontaneity

+Create dynamic surfaces

+Bring together acts of drawing and making

The first day will be spent exploring slip decoration, including monoprinting and brushwork. You’ll be encouraged to explore the possibilities of slip as a decorative technique and evoke feeling and atmosphere through texture and mark making.

The second day will be used to create vessel forms and sculpture with refined joins and surfaces. You’ll explore advanced slab building techniques, cutting and altering the works to create forms with recesses, angles and curves.

Class sizes are limited to 10-12 participants to ensure there is enough time for individual guidance and a productive group dynamic.

Verity is an artist and educator. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. She is a Selected Member of the Craft Potters Association and her work has been featured in publications including Ceramic Review and New Ceramics. She is a visiting lecturer at Hereford College of Arts and Morely College London.

Level: This course is suitable for potters and ceramic artists with some previous experience of handbuilding with clay.

Duration: Saturday 9th Nov 11am - 4.30pm and Sunday 10th Nov 10.30am - 4.30pm

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