Playing with clay and other adventures: 2019

Saturday 16 November 2019

Grand Opening of my new Studios

Well its been a while and a lots has happened since I last wrote.

I have a new blog on my website so I will sporadically update both here and there as I am a bit rubbish at this but the biggest news so far is I have moved studios.

If you follow my website, fb or Insta you'll know this so after 19yrs 17 of those in my old studio I have moved. From Sept 2019 I moved to Lomeshaye Business Village to a larger space with a dedicated workshop room.

My new studios are

Fired Up North Studios

Unit 25 Lomeshaye Business Village

Turner Road, Nelson, BB9 7DR

AND tomorrow is the Grand Opening

1-4pm

All Welcome

And if you can make it there is a £5 off any workshops booked on the day

Porcelain Tiles Workshops

Tiles impressed natural objects in porcelain using natural material such as grasses, flowers and leaves.

You will create a set of four tiles that can be used as coasters or wall plaques, door numbers etc using colour and oxide to bring them to life.

Participants will learn the basic skills involved in creating clay tiles. We will be using a porcelain clay suitable for displaying outdoors once fired. Creating decoration with collected natural materials ie grasses, seed heads, flowers and leaves to create patterns and pictures on the surface. We will introduce a splash of colour using underglaze and oxides to pick up the details on the surfaces once fired.

Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs

Dates for 2019

Prices include materials and firing £45

Thurs 28^th November 1pm -3.30pm or 6.30-9pm

Thurs 5^th December 1pm -3.30pm or 6.30-9pm

Porcelain tea light holders

Create your own tea light holders using slab building techniques with porcelain.

In this 2 & ½ hr workshop you will learn techniques on how to handle the porcelain, rolling out techniques and forming and joining the porcelain, impressing and incising using textures to exploit its beautiful translucent qualities to create your very own tea light holder. At the end of the workshop you will have created at least one porcelain tea light holder to be fired.

Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs

Dates for 2019

Price includes materials and firing £45

Saturday 23^rd November 1pm -3.30pm

Sunday 1^st December 1pm -3.30pm

Wednesday 4^th Dec 6.30-9pm

Wednesday 11^th Dec 6.30-9pm

Christmas decorations in Porcelain

Come and make your own personalised Christmas tags, tree decorations.

Learn how to roll out porcelain to 2mm thick, how to handle the material, impressing and incising techniques using textures to exploit its beautiful translucent qualities. You can leave your creations white or using underglazes to print or stain the imprints to coordinate your Christmas presents.

Julie is an experienced teacher in ceramics with a degree in Design Craft & an MA in Ceramics. She has taught since graduating in 1998 in various settings from art galleries to a disused quarry, all ages and abilities. Bring an apron, enthusiasm and anything that you would like to use to impress including leaves, fabric, flowers etc and you will be able to achieve with step by step tuition some amazing creations. Go on have a go and get creative. Refreshments offered on arrival whilst going through housekeeping & health & safety for each workshop.

Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs

Dates for 2019

Prices include materials and firing £45

Sunday 8^th Dec 1.30-4pm

Friday 24 May 2019

New in my Etsy shop

I am currently uploading work into my Etsy shop as my laptop has died after water damage and I can't access the back end of my website easily.
I can dispatch orders etc don't worry
but adding new products is seeming a bit more fiddly via my iPad.
This will be rectified very soon *crosses fingers

So with that in mind I am adding dog heads to Etsy and seeing how they are received.
Unfortunately I can't wrap hares securely enough that they can post as it is heart breaking
to receive a broken parcel so will try and find a better way to package those and hopefully
unloading more hares soon.
But dogs on the other hand are far more sturdy and will expect a bonio on their arrival!

Meanwhile

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/juliemilesceramics

Monday 25 March 2019

Sharks, whales and other fishes

So I have a few new pieces based on Sea life uploaded into my etsy shop. My laptop is still a bit dead so I am using etsy till I can get a new updated one to replace it and update and upgrade my webshop.

So if there's any spelling forgive me I am on my ipad. Was looking at how to improve them last night whilst watching Blue Planet Live.

Watch this space or if you have any other suggestions let me know. Next on the list is a Mako and an octopus but will have to do some more research on that one.