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ClayCraft

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Welcome
I t’s with great pleasure that I make the following announcement. After the six-and-a-half years that ClayCraft has been going, my youngest daughter has finally shown an interest in clay! That’s not quite fair. She does prefer my plates to the bought
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Meet The Team...
Jacqui Atkin P50 Cheery mugs Simon Shaw P8 Kitchen roll holder Doug Fitch P72 Potfest Linda Bloomfield P16 Yellow glazes Lisa Pritchard P46 Studio refurb Chris Taylor P61 School lessons ■
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Diary Dates
Harrow Open Studios and Harrow Art Centre present a wide variety of artists, in age, area, styles and mediums. On those hot, sultry summer days (or rainy ones) it is a welcome relief to enter a cool clean space, full of vibrant art in all mediums and
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Clay Creaft
www.claycraft.co.uk 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 Bloomfield, Doug Fitch, Kevin Millw
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Thrown Kitchen Roll Holder
You will need: ■ 2kg (4 ½lb) clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware in your preferred colour, plus extra to throw a pad for a batt unless you have a quick-fix mechanism ■ Tools for throwing – water bowl, sponge, ribs, cutting wire ■ Glazes of ch
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Linda Bloomfield
Yellow is a cheerful colour, with glaze and stain names such as honey, buttercup, primrose and sunshine yellow. They were used on porcelain bowls in Ming China and functional slipware pancheons in medieval Europe. Nowadays, stains and underglaze colo
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Supernormal Domestic
Thanks to funding from Wasps (Workspace Artist Studio Provision Scotland), a group of five glass and ceramic artists – Janice Affleck, Ruth Mae Martin, Cath Maskell, Charlott Rodgers and Siân Patterson – all based in Glasgow Ceramics Studios, have ju
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A Day In The Life Of…
Anna has owned a pottery painting studio in South Lincolnshire for over 10 years and set up Cutters for Clay a couple of years ago after designing her own range of 3D printed cutters, stamps and textured rolling pins for playing with clay. Here is a
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Colourful Vase
PROJECT TWO ■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware– preferably white firing for a better colour response when decorating ■ Rolling pin, roller guides (max 5mm-thick), plastic sheet ■ General tools and ribs ■ Blank newsprint paper (availabl
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Garden Planter With Sprig Decoration
ROJECT HREE ■ Large sheets of paper to make the templates – plus pencil, ruler and craft knife ■ The template created to make a sprig mould ■ A stoneware grogged clay, eg craft crank ■ Rolling pin, plastic sheet, roller guides (8 10mm thick) ■ Gene
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The Accidental Studio
At the time of writing, our summer term of classes is ending, and the studio will be closed over the summer holidays. A lovely, restful six weeks, lounging about, basking in the summer sunshine and drinking margaritas. Wait, what? Don’t be silly – th
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Clay Works Studios
Recently,I was asked to run a workshop at a local secondary school. It’s the second one I have been invited to work with in the past few months, and both times the workshops were made possible by funding through Upland, a local arts organisation. The
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Four Decorative Slab Cup
PROJECT Before you begin: Make a paper template to your chosen depth, which is long enough to fit around your tube former with a 2-3cm overlap ■ A forming tube – plastic drainpipes are useful, or carpet inner tubes etc ■ Ruler, craft knife, pencil an
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Making Sprigs
You will need: ■ Anon-absorbent board and/or a glazed tile ■ An outline template in card of the sprig shape ■ Fine marker pen ■ Smooth, soft clay to make the model from ■ Plaster ■ Bowl or jug to mix the plaster in 1 Draw and cut out your sprig templ
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Doug's Diary
I'veoften heard it said that you can tell the schools have broken up because the weather changes for the worse, and so far, this has been the case for us in southwest Scotland. Term ended for the kiddies about four weeks ago, and since the holidays b
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Courses
STEF BAXTER POTTERY Courses: Handbuilding & throwing day class drop-in. Night and weekend classes. 1-1 tuition & Raku classes. Suitable for all levels. Open access coming. Dates: see website Location; Govan, Glasgow stefbaxterpottery.com CLAY WORKS

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