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CLAY COURSE: Just Glaze Session (adults)

Messums Creative

Just Glaze session

Date: Friday 10 December
Times: 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 17.00

Book a half day session £65 each

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

Bridget Timoney has been a practicing potter for ten years. She studied ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design. She trained under Gus Mableson at the prestigious Thomastown Skills Course and completed an Adopt a Potter apprenticeship with Julie Ayton. Recently Bridget completed her traineeship as Mirka Golden-Hann’s Visual Arts and Pottery Assistant at Salisbury Arts Centre where she gained an in-depth insight into teaching pottery classes to all ages as well as running a community pottery.

£65.00

CLAY DAY: Glaze and Practice Sessions

Messums Creative

10 December

Day £120, half day £65

Glaze your work from previous courses and use the workshop time for an opportunity to practice your wheel skills.

A technician or tutor will be available for help and advice.

£65 – £120

CLAY COURSE: Just Glaze Session (adults)

Messums Creative

Just Glaze session

Date: Friday 10 December

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

Bridget Timoney has been a practicing potter for ten years. She studied ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design. She trained under Gus Mableson at the prestigious Thomastown Skills Course and completed an Adopt a Potter apprenticeship with Julie Ayton. Recently Bridget completed her traineeship as Mirka Golden-Hann’s Visual Arts and Pottery Assistant at Salisbury Arts Centre where she gained an in-depth insight into teaching pottery classes to all ages as well as running a community pottery.

£65.00

ONLINE TALK: with NFU’s Minette Batters

Online

Join us for a conversation with Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, representing 55,000 farming businesses. In 2018 she became the first woman to be president of the organisation, having been vice-president from 2014 to 2018. She was re-elected in 2020 for a second two-year term as president Minette also runs a 300-acre tenant farm at Downton near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

Free

Introducing Porcelain Throwing

Messums Creative

If you always wanted to have a go at making with porcelain on the potter’s wheel, now is your chance. This is a three part course for intermediate potters who would like to expand their skill set to work with the notoriously temperamental and magical material that is porcelain. Get ready to be enchanted and challenged at the same time!

£135.00

ONLINE TALK: Is Packaging the Answer?

Online

Can plastic packaging ever be better for the environment than paper? Why don’t we just get rid of packaging altogether?
Why isn’t all packaging recyclable? Is all plastic made from petrochemicals?
The answers to these questions may surprise you.

Free

ONLINE TALK: Land as a Conscious Being’ with Photographer Nii Obodai

Online

In this online conversation, photographer Nii Obodai will present his series ‘Big Dreams’ and ‘Paradox of Paradise’.
Messums London presents its first contemporary photography show by artists Nii Obodai and Justin Keene. Through a selection of delicately composed and elusive images, this exhibition encourages us to ponder our relationship with nature and read cultural history through the environment.

Free

Slip Decorating Dishes

Messums Creative

Under the tuition of Jo Taylor, in this workshop you will be able to create serving dishes either by slab building or throwing on the potters’ wheel, and decorate them with coloured slips. Slip decoration is one of the most expressive decorating techniques. This workshop will let you go wild and be free using your vessels as canvasses for expressing your creative energy.

£240.00

CLAY COURSE: Thursday Afternoon Pottery Class (10 weeks)

Messums Creative

Thursday afternoon adult pottery class. Sign up for ten weeks tuition with tutor Andy Glass

Dates: from 20 January – 31 March (Half term: 24 February)
Times: 1pm- 4pm

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: 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