Come and join us for two hours of creative, relaxing hand-building using air-drying clay. Not only is it fun, but creativity is good for your mental health and wellbeing too.
We’ll make some simple dishes and bowls, using lots of texture in the decoration and you are free to make your own design if you wish to.
All you need is provided, you just need to turn-up, although you may wish to bring an apron!
A free drink is included and there will also be a cash bar.
Previous participants said
“Great tuition and enthusiasm, amazed at how much we made in the time. Found it all relaxing, fun and rewarding.”
Millie Brierley
I started taking pottery classes with Carol Foster after I moved to Whitstable. My work is hand built and I use stoneware, porcelain and craft crank clays. I am inspired by our north Kent coast and enjoy using glazes, texture and gold lustre to suggest a seaside environment.
Before I retired and moved to Whitstable, I was a college lecturer in photography in Cambridge, where I lived for thirty five years. I was also a social documentary maker. I was commissioned to make awareness raising work celebrating the NHS, care in the community and care at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. My work was exhibited widely in Cambridge.
After moving to Whitstable, I volunteered at Maya’s Community Support Centre. I recently co-lead an art project celebrating volunteering entitied Power of People.
Sue Bird
Sue is retired after a career in nutrition research, followed by a sideways move into communications, mostly spent working in academia in North East Scotland. Ceramics was an early passion, nurtured by some brilliant evening classes at Gray’s School of Art, part of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She has over 30 years of experience working with clay.
Now resident in Whitstable, Sue is an ideas person who currently expresses them by making one-off earthenware pieces decorated with slips or underglaze colours. Her pieces can be thrown, slab-built or press-moulded and her studio is a playground of making and decorating techniques. Colour, and the use of words on pieces to highlight issues and the nature of being human, are important to her. Her 3D work is also increasingly influenced by her painting.
Sue is Secretary of ‘Made in Whitstable’ a local artists’ collective, and is a volunteer and Trustee for the Horsebridge Centre. Sue is the co-organiser of The Whitstable Ceramics Fair in November.