Students will learn the basic techniques of how to throw ceramic pots on a potter’s wheel. They will learn to make the basic shapes of a cylinder, a bowl and a mug or jug.
They will then learn how to add a handle to the mug or jug and finally how to glaze them using oxides and glazes.
The workshop is organized over 3 days, and will incorporate these skills:
- Session 1:
- preparing clay by pugging and wedging,
- throwing cylinders and mugs and jugs
- Session 2:
- throwing bowls
- putting handles on mugs and jugs
- Session 3:
- glazing all pots
All finished ware will be fired in the kilns and students will be able to collect their work at a later date (to be announced) from the art studio.
Chris Newns started learning about ceramics while at university in the UK training to be a teacher. He learned how to throw pots and to build ceramic ware by hand – making pinch pots, coil pots and slab ware.
Since those early days, he has travelled around the world as a teacher and managed to practice his craft. The country which had the most influence on his ceramic style was Japan and its fascinatingly diverse style of pottery – distorting thrown ware on the wheel, adding bubbly glazes and generally breaking all the rules he had learned in the UK!
Chris has worked with young children and adults and he is looking forward very much to sharing his skills with a group of students in WEP 2017.
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