4 day Slip-decorating Earthenware: Patia Davis
This course, new in 2009, inspired a spirited and imaginative group of student dishes and bakers. Developed in direct response to Patia’s own exciting new ranges of both porcelain and earthenware, the 2010 course follows on with the same theme. The course content for 2010 is spread over 4 days, by popular request allowing an additional day for students to realize their own ideas. Patia will be sharing the secrets of her new-found vocabulary of alluring and lively mark-making.
The course programme considers both traditional and contemporary approaches to slip application, methods which grew out of post-medieval English pot-making and then later flourished in the celebrated 17th and 18th chargers and often elaborate slipwares of Staffordshire. The schedule will allow for a strong emphasis on experimentation, both in exploring technique and in assisting each student’s approach to the development of design and mark-making in slips. Following this, students will experiment with making and decorating slabbed, hump-moulded flatwares. Of these completed shallow dishes and bakers Patia will help you to select the best pots which she will later raw-glaze and gloss fire, for students to collect at a later date. A charge in addition to the course fee will be made for fired pots, £1.00/lb for biscuit and £2.00/lb for gloss firing.
The studio invites a maximum of 8 students for this course. The course begins at 10am on the first morning, completing at 4pm on the last day. Tuition hours are otherwise 9am – 5pm. Morning and afternoon refreshments are included in the price of this course along with our home-baked sourdough loaves for lunch. Students will be asked to bring along a small lunchtime savoury dish to share.
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