THROWN AND ALTERED - INTERMEDIATE

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July - 10:00-16:00 both days

We are incredibly pleased to invite Sabine Nemet as a guest potter for the first time to teach a two-day workshop at Crown Works Pottery.

Sabine completed an apprenticeship as a thrower in East Germany in 1997 with Hans Joachim Grünert in Waldenburg(Sachsen). She then underwent a three year long thorough training in producing domestic ware exclusively on the potter’s wheel. This is also where she was first introduced to wood firing. Since then, the excitement of staying up all night feeding an ever hungry kiln with wood, the direct impact of when and how much wood to put in the firebox, has never left her. In 2000 Sabine travelled to England to gain more experience in ceramics and has lived in the UK ever since.

Sabines pots are mainly thrown, sometimes altered, cut and put together again. As decoration she use stamps, made from carved porcelain. The shapes on the stamps are based on nature, seeds leaf pattern, flowers, which are then pressed into the clay repeatedly. When the clay is completely dry, the imprint is filled with different coloured glazes and then sometimes glazed over again. She use simple glazes on the inside of pots and on the outside various coloured slips or no slips at all to fully utilise the effects of wood firing and soda glazing.

In this course you will explore throwing a range of different shapes to then alter. Sabine will guide you through the techniques to do this with shapes such as casserole dishes, bowls and platters. You will look at the importance of different handles and how they effect the final pieces and how to apply lugs.