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CLAY COURSE: Thursday Evening Pottery Class (10 weeks)

Messums Creative

Thursday evening adult pottery class. Sign up for two to ten weeks of tuition with tutor Andy Glass.

Dates: from 20 January – 31 March 2022 (Half term: 24 February)
Times: 6pm- 9pm

Tutor: Andy Glass

These regular sessions are the ideal opportunity for ceramics and pottery beginners and intermediate students wanting to become familiar with or improve their clay making skills. We believe that the relaxed, friendly, and peaceful atmosphere is an ideal environment for creative learning. This weekly class led by an experienced ceramics practitioner is designed to nurture everyone’s individual creativity and further each person’s skills at their own pace. You will be able to cover hand building techniques such as pinch-pot making, coiling, slab building as well as work on the potters wheel.

£220.00

CLAY COURSE: Pottery with Glaze Focus (10 weeks)

Messums Creative

Friday daytime adult class with a focus on understanding glazes.

Dates: 21 January – 1 April (Half term: 25 February)
Times: 10.30am – 1.30pm

Tutor: Mirka Golden-Hann

This is an ideal class for those ceramics and pottery students, beginners and more advanced who, whilst engaging in clay making, also wish to gain a deeper understanding of how ceramic glazes work. As well as covering many hand-building methods and throwing on the potters wheel, this course will include an element of glaze experimentation and development.

£220.00

Sculpting is Human

Messums Creative

This is an introduction to sculpting the human form in clay. In this course tutor Finn Bush will help you to create studies and maquettes of the human form capturing posture, movement and charisma of a personality.

£120.00

Make a Money Box

Messums Creative

Family workshop. Come and create a money box of any shape. A building or creature? Quirky monster with five arms, an as yet undiscovered dinosaur or a happy Mr Piggy … Using clay and your wildest imagination, this will be a morning of fun and creativity.

£15 – £25

Animals in Relief

Messums Creative

Half-day sculpture course for families
A chance to take out from your imagination and into material reality the personality and quirks of your favourite creatures.
Come to create lively designs from the observation of characterful animals.

£15 – £25

Gargoyles and Hypnotic Faces

Messums Creative

MESSUMS MAKERS – Half-day sculpture course for families
Made as a standalone sculpture, using clay in an expressive and improvised manner, you will have the chance to learn how to express yourself through the creation of a grimacing face.

£15 – £25

Family Potter’s Wheel Weekend

Messums Creative

Have you always wanted to make a pot on a potter’s wheel? Now is your chance to come with your family.
These sessions are intended for families with children aged 10+ to come together to have a go or improve their skills on the potter’s wheel.

£40.00

Sculpture Course: Vessels of the Forest

Messums Creative

ONE DAY SCULPTURE COURSES – Series of sculpture courses inspired by the exhibition programme at Messums Wiltshire
Sculpting improvised forms related to branch, leaf, creature and our entanglement with the depths of the forest. In this course you can make forms such as vase, bowl, container or just a wonderful sculpted and dramatic reflection on structure which might remind you of the mystery of nature and growth.

£120.00

On-Glaze Brushwork Workshop

Messums Creative

Lettering on ceramics using Versals. In this course you will examine letter formation, letter weight and spacing.

£65 – £120

Make a Bird’s Nest

Messums Creative

A session for pre-school children and their adults.
In this session our inspiration comes from the wonders of Springtime. Come and join us in some messy fun to create a birds nest with eggs and possibly even some nesting birds or hatchlings.

£10 – £15

Slab Building the Figure

Messums Creative

ONE DAY SCULPTURE COURSES – Series of sculpture courses inspired by the exhibition programme at Messums Wiltshire
Influenced by the illusions evoked by Greg Payce’s ceramics which employ optical illusions, tutor Finn Bush will guide you to create slab built figurative forms. Inspired by the spaces in between objects, you will be encouraged to form an image of the human shape.

£120.00

Introduction to Bone China and Slip Casting

Messums Creative

In this two day demonstration course you will have the chance to gain an insight into the processes associated with slip casting. The course will cover mold-making process as well as slip casting bone china and many different surface decorating methods.

£255.00

Glazing with Finn Bush

Messums Creative

During this workshop you can come to apply stains, oxides or glaze to your sculptures with Finn – workshop for glazing sculpture made in March and April.

£65.00