Here’s another porcelain cup being made yesterday at Esther Ley’s pottery session in Waun Wen and Brynmelyn Community Centre. This participant has pressed antique lace into the top edge of the teacup and then pressed grains of rice into the rest. These will burn out in the kiln when the cup is fired and theContinue reading “Old Lace And Rice”
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Slip, Stamps And Lemon Drizzle
Today I was at the third of the six planned pottery sessions at Waun Wen Community Centre, run by Swansea ceramicist Esther Ley. We had tea and lemon drizzle cake and porcelain and moulds and stamps and slip and people made some quite spectacular teacups. This participant has decorated their cup with rice, liquid slipContinue reading “Slip, Stamps And Lemon Drizzle”
Chilling With Ceramics
Aaaah what a lovely evening yesterday, with a small group of people and local ceramicist Esther Ley at Waun Wen and Brynmelyn Community Centre. Esther and I are running arts sessions for the next few weeks for Swansea University (see below). Esther has devised this cracking one-off session for people to make their own porcelainContinue reading “Chilling With Ceramics”
Teacups And Spoons
Busy Busy Busy February is going to be a busy month for the final few weeks of my arts residency in the Waun Wen area of the city. One of the things that’s happening is a series of free ceramics sessions by the talented Swansea potter Esther Ley to make a porcelain teacup and spoonContinue reading “Teacups And Spoons”
Coming Out Of Covid: Ceramics In The Community Centre.
People and Porcelain Spent a lovely afternoon at the community centre in Waun Wen today, working alongside local ceramicist Esther Ley who was running a short workshop, making porcelain cups. It was good to be able to have a small group of people together, within Covid19 restrictions of course. I had to have a quickContinue reading “Coming Out Of Covid: Ceramics In The Community Centre.”
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