Demos and Talks

Join us in the Old Library for a weekend of demonstrations by a selection of our exhibitors.

All talks and demonstrations are included in your ticket price and do not need to be booked. Seating is allocated on a first come first served basis.

Saturday 26th October

11:30 – Daniel Boyle

Daniel will be giving a talk about his thirty years of salt glazing – developing his glazes, experimenting with his firings and his approach towards making.

13.15 – Katherine Kingdon

During her demonstration Katherine will talk about using play to generate ideas. You’ll see into the secret world of her sketchbooks, pick up some slab-building tips and find out how she creates the characters and narratives which populate her vessels.

15:00 – Kim Colebrook

Kim’s work is inspired by the history and geology of the South Wales Coalfield. Kim will talk about her inspiration and how she got into ceramics late in life (often described as her “mid life crisis without a sports car”). The demonstration will focus on different ways that Kim makes blocks of Nerikomi (or geological) porcelain, inspired by the Coalfield strata and the way that she makes cubes from this porcelain.

Sunday 27th October

11:15 – Miche Follano

This presentation will focus on the surface decoration of ceramic objects. There will be a short presentation and demonstration detailing the making and preparation of the surface, ready for printing and drawing. The demonstration will detail how to transfer laser printed images, drawings, and text onto unfired clay. It will also include a demonstration of drawing through hand-made carbon paper directly onto the surface.

13:00 – Anna Lambert

Talking, Making, and painting with slips.

Anna will demonstrate the making processes and layered slip painting of a hand built platter.

Using drawing to capture images which reflect her interest in land use and regeneration of farmland and gardens, Anna creates painted slipware on slab built earthenware pots. Techniques used will include brushwork, stencilling and masking, and sgraffito.

14:15 – Richard Phethean

This year, celebrating his 50^th anniversary as a maker and pottery teacher, Richard will be talking about his journey from Camberwell Art College to Cornwall, via falling in love with slipware, two years in Papua New Guinea, a thirteen-year residency in an Oxfordshire Quaker school and a brush with Picasso in Barcelona, while demonstrating his use of altered thrown forms, slips and paper resist to create his work.