Carys Martin Ceramics
Term 3 2025 Eight Week Term - Thursday Evening Hand building and sculpting with Diane
Term 3 2025 Eight Week Term - Thursday Evening Hand building and sculpting with Diane
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Thursday 6:30 - 8:30pm
Term 3 - June 26th - 14th August
If you are wishing to hone your sculpting skills then this is the perfect course for you! This course of 8 week classes at The Studio in Cleveland is perfect for those wishing to learn and extend their skills in hand building and sculpting. You will learn the techniques to create pottery pieces, and Diane will show you how to master the skills of slab building, coiling and pinch pots and step you through the creative process of making and glazing. You are free to concentrate on your own projects or to be inspired by pieces in the studio and Diane's own artworks that you can see on Mud Of Moon. After creating your pieces you are able to focus on decorating using under glazes, tissue transfers and stoneware glazes. Diane will show you different decorating techniques to finish your pieces.
This course is suitable for beginners giving you all the clay foundation skills you need, or if you already have some experience, Diane will help you to further develop your style and skills. Course includes all clay, basic materials, firing and glazes.
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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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