Pottery Wall Sconces
Sunday 19th July 1-3pm
Step into the creative rhythm of a working pottery studio and spend time handbuilding your own ceramic wall vessel with artist Melissa. Surrounded by shelves of handmade work, tools, glazes, and the quiet hum of the studio, you’ll learn the techniques used to shape, decorate, and assemble your own unique hanging planter in clay.
During this workshop, Melissa will guide you through handbuilding methods suitable for beginners through to more experienced makers. You’ll explore form, texture, attachment techniques, and decorative surface details while creating a wall piece designed to hold dried flowers, herbs, small plants, incense, or treasured objects.
Each participant will receive a wheel-thrown vessel form at leather-hard stage to incorporate into their design, allowing you to combine handbuilt sculptural elements with a professionally thrown functional form. You’ll then build around and embellish your planter using a selection of sprigs, textures, and decorative techniques. From botanical and ocean-inspired designs to whimsical character pieces, there will be plenty of room to create something uniquely your own.
Surface decoration, sprigs, carving, stamping, sculptural additions, and applied details can all be explored throughout the session.
We will work with a pale stoneware clay, and you’ll choose from a range of studio glaze colours for Melissa to glaze your piece in after its first firing.
The workshop runs for approximately 2 hours and is suitable for beginners through to experienced potters.
After the workshop, your planter will be slowly dried, bisque fired, glazed, and glaze fired in the kiln. Pieces will be ready for collection from the studio approximately 2–3 weeks later.
As with all handmade ceramics, occasional kiln breakages can occur. If a piece is damaged beyond repair during firing, you will be offered the opportunity to remake your piece or receive a full refund.
Studio Address - Unit 11, 7-9 Grant St Cleveland.
Testimonials:
"A two hour workshop crafting something uniquely yours is such a treat. Carys guides you with suggested techniques to decorate your own mug. I found the experience to be relaxing and thoroughly creative. Highly recommend." Amanda
"Carys is a bubbly, patient, kind, and knowledgeable artist who answered any and all questions we had. We had a wonderful time making our mugs and there's so much more to it than previously thought. Definitely attend this studio; you're in for a real treat!" Corina
"I have been going to workshops and doing classes with Carys for some years now. Carys is a wonderful teacher, who has the ability to guide you in your marking journey, giving advice on how to create using clay as well as teaching technique. She has a gentle way about her which helps put people at ease in her beautiful space. If you are looking to learn pottery from an absolute beginner to advance, Carys Martin Ceramics is the place to do this. Carys will teach you ever step involved in ceramics, from hand building to wheel work through to glazing and firing." Catie
