We are delighted to welcome Alice Walton to Clay Shed this summer for a weekend of colouring clay. The workshop will delve into the practical and decorative aspects of colouring clay with stains and oxides, synonymous with Alice’s ceramic sculptures. 

This workshop is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to:

• Know the effects of stains and oxides as colourants

• Develop a repertoire of colouring techniques

• Create spectrums of colour and tone using line and triaxial blends

• Upscale and calculate percentage increases

• Enhance your repertoire of decoration techniques using coloured clay

You’ll learn how to colour clays using addition and reclaim methods so that you can decide which works best for your creative practice. You’ll learn to utilise line blends and shift blends (from colour to colour) allowing you to mix pigments to create spectrums and tonal ranges quickly and easily. You’ll have the option to explore triaxial blends using three different colours and come away with a range of tests from which you can develop a personal colour library. 

The skills acquired from this workshop are suitable for makers interested in nerikomi, marbling, layering or inlay. Due to the ranging activities on the course participants will need to bring along suitable weighing scales. Further details will be provided nearer the course start date. 

Class sizes are limited to 10-12 participants, ensuring there is enough time for individual guidance and a productive group dynamic. Clay Shed values exploration, experimentation and reducing our impact on the environment. To accommodate these values, this workshop will not include firings. Participants are welcome to take home all the tests made over the duration of the workshop.

Alice Walton is a British ceramic artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art. She has been an artist in residence during the European Ceramic Context in Denmark, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Cove Park, Scotland. In 2017, Alice was awarded the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Scholarship and in 2018 was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.

Alice’s ceramics have exhibited worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Make Hauser & Wirth, Officine Saffi, and Collect. She has had solo shows in both London and Switzerland. She was awarded the Wedgewood Prize at the British Ceramics Biennial in 2019 and has works in the V&A Wedgwood Collection.

Level: Prior experience with clay is required to get the most out of the workshop.

Duration: 10.30am - 4.30pm each day

Includes: Materials, tea and coffee (dairy free and herbal alternatives available)

Tutor: Alice Walton

+Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty+

Participants must be aged 18 years and over

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