Singing Mamas
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Price: ££125 - includes 2x beautifully thrown raku bottles, raku glazes, raku firing and tuition - no hidden extra costs!
Join local expert potter Jessica Stiles for a 1-day Raku workshop at Marsh Farm on Saturday 21st June, 10.30am-4pm
You’ll decorate 2x thrown bottles with raku glazes, horse hair, wool, feathers and plant materials to create stunning effects.
Suitable for everyone from complete beginners to those who’ve tried Raku before – this will be a fun day of experimentation, team work and low-fire magic!
Running order:
+ Decorate your pieces with raku glazes
+ Load the kiln and start the firing process
+ Stop for a communal lunch, go for a walk to forage decorating materials for the naked raku
+ Once the kiln is ready – work in teams to smoke the glazed work or decorate the naked raku with horsehair, wool, feathers and plant materials
+ Dunk in water to cool, clean pots and chat about our results
+ Clean-up and pack down with everyone heading off at around 4pm
Your tutor will be the amazing Jess Stiles!
Jess is a skilled small-batch potter who revels in atmospheric firings such as wood, soda and raku. Jess’ work focuses on traditional thrown forms and she leaves the surface decoration to wood-firing and ash glazes to weave their magic. Jess also runs her own pottery business Towpath Pottery where she has been teaching and selling her stunning pots from the UKs canals for the past 4 years. You can see more of Jess’ work here: https://www.instagram.com/jessica._stiles/ and https://www.instagram.com/towpathpottery/