Nature in Ceramics
SKU:
SS22natureinceramics
£68.00
£68.00
per item
Thursday 14th July 1-3.30pm
Celebrate the beauty and intricacy that nature creates, by making your own nature based ceramic pieces.
Using local grown and foraged plants imprinted into the clay, we will be using handbuilding techniques and drape moulds to make your own completely unique pieces. Using drape moulds allows complete beginners to experience the joy of making pottery completely from scratch. With a variety of different shapes, you’ll each be able to make your own dish, to be used for everything from holding jewellery to serving nibbles. There will also be the option to add a ring stand to your dish too.
Making ceramics can be a deeply mindful experience, and it is very satisfying to make something so functional and beautiful.
Celebrate the beauty and intricacy that nature creates, by making your own nature based ceramic pieces.
Using local grown and foraged plants imprinted into the clay, we will be using handbuilding techniques and drape moulds to make your own completely unique pieces. Using drape moulds allows complete beginners to experience the joy of making pottery completely from scratch. With a variety of different shapes, you’ll each be able to make your own dish, to be used for everything from holding jewellery to serving nibbles. There will also be the option to add a ring stand to your dish too.
Making ceramics can be a deeply mindful experience, and it is very satisfying to make something so functional and beautiful.
About the day
Plenty of plants will be available to choose from, but feel free to bring along any plants that you have growing in your garden, or that you have responsibly foraged from your local surroundings to bring extra special meaning to what you create.
The cost of this workshop includes the cost of all materials.
Kingshill House Loyalty Card
We’ve designed this programme so that students have an opportunity to try multiple crafts at a lower than usual rate, and this year sees the launch of our loyalty card.
Stamped upon booking your first Creative Summer School workshop, and for each subsequent workshop in 2022, the Kingshill House Loyalty Card is valid all year - try six workshops and enjoy 50% off your next booking.
All students who book more than one workshop will receive a Kingshill House tote bag. These can also be purchased for £12 each.
Creative Summer School Soiree – Saturday 16th July, 6–8.30pm
At the end of the week, we welcome you to join us for a Summer School Soiree!
Students and tutors will be invited to exhibit their work at the House, enjoy a glass of fizz, and celebrate the variety of crafts made throughout the week. If you would like to exhibit the work that you have created during the Creative Summer School then please let your tutor or the Kingshill House team know. Works will be displayed for the Soiree evening only, and then you are free to take them home or collect them the following week.
About your tutor
Katy Kebbell makes ceramics from her home in Wotton-Under-Edge on the edge of the Cotswolds. She is fascinated by the almost limitless forms, functions, colours and finishes that clay can create, and how it remembers the touch of the makers. Nature inspires what she makes, from imprinting botanicals directly into the clay, to the curves and shapes of plants and landscapes echoed in her pieces.
The botanical pieces are made by pressing plants she has foraged from the fields and hedgerows into the wet clay, leaving behind the wonderful tracery of the leaves and stems making each piece truly unique. Most of what she makes is functional, and the majority is made on the potters’ wheel, but she also loves to explore other areas of the vast potential that clay holds!
@spinningleafceramics
Plenty of plants will be available to choose from, but feel free to bring along any plants that you have growing in your garden, or that you have responsibly foraged from your local surroundings to bring extra special meaning to what you create.
The cost of this workshop includes the cost of all materials.
Kingshill House Loyalty Card
We’ve designed this programme so that students have an opportunity to try multiple crafts at a lower than usual rate, and this year sees the launch of our loyalty card.
Stamped upon booking your first Creative Summer School workshop, and for each subsequent workshop in 2022, the Kingshill House Loyalty Card is valid all year - try six workshops and enjoy 50% off your next booking.
All students who book more than one workshop will receive a Kingshill House tote bag. These can also be purchased for £12 each.
Creative Summer School Soiree – Saturday 16th July, 6–8.30pm
At the end of the week, we welcome you to join us for a Summer School Soiree!
Students and tutors will be invited to exhibit their work at the House, enjoy a glass of fizz, and celebrate the variety of crafts made throughout the week. If you would like to exhibit the work that you have created during the Creative Summer School then please let your tutor or the Kingshill House team know. Works will be displayed for the Soiree evening only, and then you are free to take them home or collect them the following week.
About your tutor
Katy Kebbell makes ceramics from her home in Wotton-Under-Edge on the edge of the Cotswolds. She is fascinated by the almost limitless forms, functions, colours and finishes that clay can create, and how it remembers the touch of the makers. Nature inspires what she makes, from imprinting botanicals directly into the clay, to the curves and shapes of plants and landscapes echoed in her pieces.
The botanical pieces are made by pressing plants she has foraged from the fields and hedgerows into the wet clay, leaving behind the wonderful tracery of the leaves and stems making each piece truly unique. Most of what she makes is functional, and the majority is made on the potters’ wheel, but she also loves to explore other areas of the vast potential that clay holds!
@spinningleafceramics
