Carys Martin Ceramics
Sat 11th Oct 9am-4pm - Earthbound Spirits: Create a Character Vase
Sat 11th Oct 9am-4pm - Earthbound Spirits: Create a Character Vase
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Pagan & Celtic Character Vase Workshop
A One-Day Immersive Workshop with Diane from Mud of Moon
🗓 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 Carys Martin Ceramics Studio
🎟 All materials and tools provided – beginners welcome
Step into a world of story, spirit, and clay in this full-day workshop where you’ll hand-build a unique character vase inspired by Pagan, Celtic, and Witch archetypes or your own unique character inspiration. Led by Diane from Mud of Moon, this class invites you to explore expressive sculpture through ancient symbols, elemental forms, and mythic faces.
🌀 You’ll be guided through:
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Building your vessel using slab and coil techniques
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Sculpting detailed, expressive facial features
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Creating textures, natural forms, and magical motifs
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Designing a finished piece ready for firing
These vases are more than containers — they are guardians, goddesses, moon-watchers, forest spirits, and story-holders.
Whether you're new to clay or experienced with sculpture, you’ll leave with a creation filled with character and meaning, ready to dry slowly and be fired.
✨ Come and spend the day crafting with earth, imagination, and wild creativity in a nurturing studio space.
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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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