School Projects — Northern Ireland

Tiny hands get festive! What an amazing opportunity to work with the little ones of Glenarm Pre School for a festive Christmas workshop. Each child joined by a parent or guardian made their very own Christmas angel and ceramic heart decorations. Using stoneware clay and a wide range of printing and mark making techniques to create individual decorations. Once made , splashes of colour were applied with ceramic underglazes , making each little trinket truly unique.  At the end of the workshop each handmade little decoration was safely packaged to take to our studio where they underwent  two kiln firings and glazed to...

Local Wildlife in Clay! It was such a great opportunity to go back to my childhood primary school to work on a local wildlife project with all the kids in the school. Each class had so much fun learning about local wildlife while making them into amazing pieces of pottery to cherish.  Primary 1 and primary 2 learned about local wildlife and identifying them from pictures to recreate  by painting them onto their ceramic tiles.  Primary 3 and primary 4 learned about ceramic techniques and used a range of mark making techniques to add texture to their tiles before applying...