working process

Naomi rolling porcelain slabs

Lee dipping fabric in porcelain slip:

Our guests

A big thank you to Fi, Bert, Molly and Bessie for coming in to visit us.
It was fantastic to spend some time making pinch pots and a turtle.

Darren our amazing technician helping to centre clay for one of our visitors:

Fire-Emotion-Distruction

Hello!
This week was so exciting because I finally made a small fire!
This was the first chance to see how different shapes I was making during this time react with the fire!
Experiments you can see here was made to help me understand how fire can naturally "draw" on clay. How the carbon and soot changes the colour of clay and how can I use it for fireplaces. One more question is how different shapes of clay can form the fire and change its behaviour.
Here are some of my experiments:


just me working :)
and this is absolutely gorgeous "fire" drawings in my opinion:

Waiting for your response!

 This day was fabulous! Mainly because some of the stuff come out from kiln and this is such an amazing feeling! The projects are moving...

Naomi working with paperclay:

Michelle and her incredably organised pieces that are going to become gorgeous jewellery quite soon:

Plaster modeling with the piece of lean: 

Working process:

Kim and black clay:

Brainstorm:

Thank you to all our visitors so far and a special thanks...

Just wanted to say a big thank you to Nicole for visiting us at the V&A last week. As a graduate from the course (2009) she sure knows how great it is to have encouragement, inspiration and feedback on your research!
Please visit her website and see her beautiful collection online: http://www.maisonsauvage.de/

Our second day at the V&A

Just some photos of how it was!

Mixed clay.

Lee at this very moment is working with the plaster.

Kim is talking to one of our visitors.