Carys Martin Ceramics
Saturday 23rd May 9am - 4pm - AdventureFest - Pottery Workshop Garden Forms
Saturday 23rd May 9am - 4pm - AdventureFest - Pottery Workshop Garden Forms
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Handbuilding & Sculpting Garden Forms with Di (Mud of Moon)
Part of Redlands Coast AdventureFest
Saturday 23 May • 9am–4pm
Carys Martin Ceramics Studio, Cleveland • Redlands Coast
Slow down and spend a full day working with clay, story, and place in this immersive handbuilding and sculpting workshop with Diane from Mud of Moon.
Drawing inspiration from the natural surroundings of the Redlands Coast - its gardens, bushland, textures, creatures, and quiet magic - you’ll create a one-of-a-kind garden ornament or planter designed to live outdoors and become part of your landscape.
Di will guide you through sculptural handbuilding techniques, helping you shape form, surface, and personality into your piece. Your creation may take on the presence of a guardian, nature spirit, or character inspired by your own imagination and environment, with room to explore organic textures, expressive features, and natural motifs.
You’ll be guided through:
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Building strong sculptural forms suitable for garden display or planting
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Sculpting character, texture, and surface detail
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Designing a finished piece ready for drying and firing
This workshop is suitable for beginners through to experienced makers. Di’s gentle, intuitive teaching style supports both technical learning and creative exploration.
Held as part of Redlands Coast AdventureFest, this workshop offers a deeper, slower kind of adventure - one rooted in making by hand, connecting with place, and creating something meaningful for your own garden or outdoor space.
All materials and firings are included. Finished pieces will be fired and ready for collection at a later date.
✨ Come and spend the day crafting with earth, imagination, and the living landscape of the Redlands Coast.
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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, currently working at the Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast, with part of her role to create show 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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