#74

ClayCraft

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Meet The Team...
Jacqui Atkin P54 Candle sconce Simon Shaw p8 Toro vase Doug Fitch P73 Feeling better Linda Bloomfield P22 Grey glazes Lisa Pritchard P42 New initiative Chris Taylor P51 Lauren’s story ■
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Claycraft
ClayCraft Magazine www.claycraft.co.uk Kelsey Media The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atkin, Linda Blo
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Welcome
I do like April, and this one is even more exciting than usual. If you don’t know, the ClayCraft editorial team is spread across the country, so we don’t often get the chance to meet up in person. I’m in East Sussex and Jacqui is in Shropshire. Simon
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Call For Entries
Worcestershire Open Studios, the well-loved free annual art event, where artists and creators across the county throw open their doors to the public, returns this year on 19-28th August, and is now open for entries, but you’ll have to be quick! The c
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Artist Line-up Announced
Six exciting artists have been selected to join the artist-curators Jemma Gowland and Jane Sarre for the inaugural Pathways Art Trail. Taking place in Hook Green Wood, Neills Road, Lamberhurst, the trail features figurative and abstract artworks resp
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Thrown Wall-hanging Ring Vase
■ Stoneware clay of choice – amount depends on the size of ring you want to make – approximately 1.4kg (3lb) used here. (See ‘Before you begin’ for more information) ■ Tools for throwing – water bowl, sponge, ribs and wooden tools, cutting wire ■ Tur
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Bisque Mug Mould
I’m using a mug to measure my template from that I consider too large for my tastes – Ilike a small mug! The assumption is that if I make it to these dimensions, given that I know the clay I will use will shrink by 10%, it will be just right for me w
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Linda Bloomfield
Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Special Effect Glazes (Herbert Press 2020), Colour in Glazes (Herbert Press 2019) and The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) G rey is a popular neut
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Mug And Beaker – Made From A Bisque Mould
The bisque mould made in project 2 ■ Clay of choice, earthenware or stoneware – white clay is best for clarity of decoration ■ Rolling pin, 4-5mm thick roller guides, plastic sheet ■ General ribs and tools ■ Underglaze in a colour of choice plus a
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A Day In The Life Of…
Florence, or ‘Flea’ as she’s known, burst onto the pottery scene as a contestant on the 2020 series of The Great Pottery Throw Down. She currently lives in the Bahamas, and here she shares a typical – idyllic! – day I tend to wake up naturally at 6am
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The Accidental Studio
S ometimes a problem or issue seems strangely unsolvable, and then inspiration strikes, and the problem becomes a wonderful opportunity. It was just like that with our bisque shelves. Liz and Lisa scratched their heads and grumbled for months and mon
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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023
EPISODE 9: Matching basins and tiles, and a Moorcroft tube lining spot test Loïs’ decoration of the tiles and her matching basins, plus first place in the spot test, won her this week’s title A wobbly start with her inlaid tiles seemed to knock Cait
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Candle Sconce Project
■ Large sheet of paper, 15cm protractor if you have one, plus small flexible protractor ■ Pencil, craft knife ■ Pair of compasses (as an alternative to protractors) ■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware ■ Rolling pin, roller guides (no thicke
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Clay Works Studios
As I write, it’s early March and pretty cold here in Dumfries – although it hasn’t yet snowed as it has in many other parts of the UK. This week we finished the first term of courses of the year, and the studio is winding down from teaching for a cou
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Doug’s DIARY
I t’shalfway through March, and thankfully I’m feeling a lot more positive than I was this time last month. My apologies for that gloomy diary post, and thank you for the kindness that I’ve received in messages from readers of these ramblings. I’m co
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Sgraffito
This project is essentially about the technique of sgraffito, but it’s good to have a surface to work on other than a tile, so we are including making a simple moulded plate. The mould we are using is a commercially bought one, but we have shown many
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TIPS & TRADE SECRETS
As discussed in issue 73 ‘Talking about clays’, commercially prepared clays are produced to be in perfect working condition when you buy them, so a lot of the problems covered in this chart won’t apply at the outset. However, the making process, whet

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