Easter Group Ceramics Workshops

Due to the success of 2015's Christmas group workshops, this year I'm going to be running several group workshops, where we will create a different item each time. There's something to suit everyone, including bird feeders, home wares, Easter & Christmas workshops!

I'm running 2 Easter workshops, where you will create Easter themed ceramic decorations; which you can bring out and treasure year after year!

*The Easter Workshops coincide with the children's Easter holiday (for Leicestershire & Northamptonshire) so why not bring the kids along for a crafty activity.

Hanging Easter Egg - Facebook event page

Set of 3 hanging Easter decorations - Facebook event page

The 2016 group workshops list is ready, follow the link to my website where you can have a browse. If you have any questions or would like to book a place please get in touch!

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 There's only 6 places available on each workshop! Book your place today!

For the full list of 2016's group workshops please visit my website!

www.katherinefortnumceramics.com/

My first ever Green Man!

I've been teaching ceramic workshops for a few years now, teaching many things from plaques to vases, children's workshops to Christmas decorations. The most popular is always making a Green Man.

I've never made one before, I never spend the time to make things for myself so I indulged! This was back in May 2015, I was and am still so happy with how he came out! 

I made him using White Stoneware Clay using a wide variety of hand building methods to achieve the design I set out for. Once the body was finished I decorated with a variety of different coloured handmade ceramic slips. 

Green Man Greenware stage, Stoneware, by Katherine Fortnum, 2015, photograph by Katherine Fortnum

I always put my own explorations on the back burner and put work first, its been a busy year with workshops, commissions and making new ceramics for craft fairs; so he was made in May 2015 and only bisque fired before Christmas 2015!

The New Year is here and I've finally glazed him and I'm extremely happy with how the colours have transformed, its exactly as I had planned! And as all ceramicists know ...that rarely happens!

What do you think? Please let me know :) 

Green Man, hand built, White Stoneware, Katherine Fortnum, 2016, photographs by Katherine Fortnum 

An insider glimpse

I thought I'd share an insider glimpse into how I create my ceramics.

I create my pieces using a range of hand building techniques, exploring details on both large and small scale. Every individual element is constructed one handed!

Here's a collection of images showing the beginnings of pieces in creation.

Each unique piece is extremely challenging and time consuming to make as every element is individually constructed.

Katherine attaching an individual spike to the body of a piece in the progress

Here's a finished piece 'Natural Series #2', its part of the Natural Series Collection, consisting of 11 pieces inspired by delicate structure in nature. 

To view the full collection please visit my website, if you have any inquiries about purchasing or displaying any pieces please get in contact via my website.

Natural Series #2, hand built stoneware, 2013, 25 x 5 x 24 cm Katherine Fortnum, photograph by Nigel Essex