Carys Martin Ceramics
Ten Week Term. Starting Mon 6th April. Hand building and Sculpting with Diane
Ten Week Term. Starting Mon 6th April. Hand building and Sculpting with Diane
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Hand-Building & Sculpting with Diane (Mud of Moon)
Monday evenings | 6:30–8:30pm
10-Week Term - April 6th – June 8th
📍 The Studio, Cleveland
Refine your sculpting skills and build confidence in clay in this supportive, technique-focused course guided by ceramic artist Diane Rendle (Mud of Moon).
This class is perfect for beginners wanting strong foundation skills and continuing students looking to deepen their sculptural style.
Di is known for her expressive figurative work and intuitive teaching style, helping students understand structure, proportion, and surface detail while encouraging personal creative direction.
What You’ll Learn
• Hand-building techniques - slab building, coiling & pinch forms
• Sculptural construction and internal support methods
• Refining form, balance and proportion
• Surface decoration using underglazes, slips, oxides & tissue transfers
• Finishing and glazing techniques to enhance texture and detail
Students are encouraged to explore their own ideas - from functional pieces to sculptural or figurative work - with personalised guidance throughout the term.
Term Fee - $650 (10 Weeks)
Includes:
• Professional instruction with Diane
• Use of studio tools and equipment
• Access to studio glazes and shared surface decoration materials
• Storage of work during the term
• Kiln firing coordination and handling
Materials & Firing (Charged Separately)
To keep class fees fair and accessible, materials and firing are charged separately so you only pay for what you use.
This allows lighter users to keep costs lower while giving more ambitious makers freedom to create larger or more complex work.
Clay (10kg bags)
• BRT & Paper Clay - $40
• SES Clay - $30
As long as suitability for firing temperature is checked with Carys, other clays can be purchased from outside of studio.
Firing - $13 per kg, per firing
• Bisque firing - $13/kg
• Glaze firing - $13/kg
Each piece is fired twice.
✨ A thoughtful, skills-focused course for anyone wanting to deepen their relationship with clay in a supportive creative community.
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Testimonials:
So happy to have been a student of Dianes. I did not think I had it in me to create such a piece of pottery. Proud of myself. She is such a good and talented teacher plus patient. Thank you Di for encouraging me all the way. 😊
Meet your teacher Diane -
From an early age, Diane’s world was steeped in creativity. Encouraged by her parents to explore the natural world through art, Diane developed a lifelong connection to the organic beauty of nature—a theme that continues to inspire her ceramic work today. Her mother, a self-taught printing in the traditional English style, and her father, a painter and restorer who worked on the vintage circus collection of Barnum & Bailey, instilled in her a deep appreciation for craftsmanship and storytelling through art.
Professionally, Diane has spent over 21 years as a pastry chef, with part of her role to create how stopper displays modelled out of chocolate. Alongside her culinary career, she has spent the last eight years developing her skills in ceramics, with a particular passion for sculpture and hand-building techniques. Her daily work teaching pastry chefs sculptural techniques in chocolate has naturally deepened her understanding of form, texture, and creative teaching—skills she now brings into her clay practice.
Diane’s ceramic art is heavily influenced by her Celtic heritage and a deep respect for the natural world. Themes of ancient stone circles, the Green Man, and the cycle of life and nature are woven throughout her work, reflecting her belief that we come from the earth and will one day return to it.
As she continues to work as a pastry chef, Diane is also expanding her artistic practice, blending her discipline, creativity, and love for teaching into a growing career in ceramics. I am so excited to have her join The Studio team!
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