Botanical Ceramics Workshop x Coltiche Dans les Prés

Discover ceramics botanical imprint through this 2h30 hands-on workshop.  Clay, your hands, leaves and flowers, a few pottery tools and inspiration... That's all we’ll need! 

In this workshop, you'll learn how to create botanical ceramics by pressing an array of locally picked plants and flowers into stoneware clay. A bowl, a plate, a vase… You will choose your piece.

I'll guide you through the basic techniques of hand-building. You'll learn how to handle clay, use pottery tools and express your creativity through unique creations. Herbalist Clotilde Farman (Coltiche dans les Prés) will join us, kindly sharing her botanical and plant design knowledge. She will bring a beautiful array of freshly picked local plants for you to use during the workshop.

Minimum age is 8 years old.

OUTLINE

• Introduction: to the different types of clay and hand-building techniques (pinching, coiling, slab building) for functional ware or any sculptural forms, and to the variety of local botanicals.
• Hands-on workshop: each participant will be able to make their own piece, whether it's a bowl, a mug, a plate or a decorative object. You are welcome to come with your own ideas.
• Decorating: you will learn how to give the finishing touches to your creation, whether by carving, adding elements or using coloured slips.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Materials and equipment: all the materials you need including clay, tools, aprons, botanicals, two firings and glazing the piece.
• Finalising your work: I will take care of the two firings and the glazing (in transparent) of your piece, so that you can collect it from the studio once it is ready (4 to 6 weeks).

PICKING UP YOUR PIECE

I will bisque fire, glaze your piece in transparent glaze and glaze fire it for you. It is a slow process, so please allow 4-6 weeks for your piece to be ready to pick up from the studio.

LOCATION

6 rue de Kerfino, 22710 Penvénan

We’ll make surrounded by nature in my Summer studio, covered but outdoors. Bring a jumper!