Summer Half Term 2-day Workshop

TUESDAY 27th & WEDNESDAY 28th MAY
9:30AM – 3PM

Fran and Faye invite young ceramicists, ages 5 to 11, to come and create their very own pond-life plate, celebrating spring. The children will learn various making and decorating techniques, get creative with clay games and explore Rochester Square’s garden. The finished pieces will be fired by the tutors and ready for collection within 3 to 4 weeks.

Workshop schedule:

Day 1:

9:30 Drawing and getting to know each other.

10:00 Some quick clay games!

10:30 Visiting the RS pond, and learning about pond-life together

11:00 Snack time and visiting the chickens

11:30 Using the slab roller, and beginning to make our plates.

12:00 Lunch time!

12:45 Continuing developing our plates

1:30 Afternoon break

1:50 Collaborative clay activity

2:30 Everyone helps to clean up

Day 2:

9:30 Drawing and getting to know each other.

10:00 Learning decorative techniques for our plates

10:30 Garden Activity

11:00 Snack time and visiting the chickens

11.30 Making our pond guardian

12:00 Lunch time!

12:45 Continuing developing our plates

1:30 Afternoon break

1:50 Collaborative clay activity

2:30 Everyone helps to clean up

Learnings: Hand building, mark making, relief printing, model making

Frances Gibson is a London-based ceramicist and illustrator.
www.francesgibsonart.com

Faye Macaree is a creative facilitator and practitioner.

Minimum class size is 6 people, if we don’t reach a minimum number of participants we will cancel the class and issue a full refund. Unfortunately, we cannot refund classes with less than a 2-week notice. All our teachers have been DBS checked.