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         IMOGEN TAYLORNOBLE       use and animal sculpture.   Location: Saint Génies de Comolas,   REST OF WORLD
         Courses: Weekly pottery classes for   Bilingual course French and English  France
         adults and children. Suitable for all   Dates: 10-12 July and 25-27 August  Facebook: @FredPotierGres  DUCTAC, MALL OF EMIRATES
         levels. Hand-building, glaze mixing &   Location: Beaufort sur Gervanne/South   SASHA WARDELL  Courses: Introduction to ‘Pottery for all’;

         glazing, experimental firing days.   East of France in the Vercors regional   Course: Bone china & mould making   hand-building & throwing. Trial sessions
         Obvara, Raku, & Saggar. 1:1 throwing   park          courses                    Dates: Sunday, Monday, Thursday
         sessions at my Whitstable studio  E: epensa26@gmail.com  Dates: May to September (incl)   10-1pm. Tuesday 6.30-9.30pm
         Dates: Various            MAS SARRAT POTTERY         in SW France/Feb & March in Wiltshire  Location: Dubai, UAE
         Location: Espressions Art Cafe, Canterbury  Courses: Introduction to pottery   Location: SW France/Wiltshire  ductac.org
         imogentaylor-noble.com    (handbuilding and throwing). Improver   sashawardell.com  STACEY MCDONALD POTTERY
         TURNING EARTH             pottery handbuilding and throwing)                    Courses: Fully equipped, spacious
         Courses: Open access studio Tues-  5-day courses       SPAIN                    clay studio offering beginner &

         Sun for all levels – must be working   Dates: April 16-30 and 23-27
         independently.  Classes available, see   Location: Cazals, Lot, France  TOTEM CERAMICS POTTERY  intermediate wheel throwing,
                                                                                         handbuilding and beginner sculpture
         website for details/availability  Jenniegilbert.com
         Dates: Open access studio Tues-Sun.  Facebook: @cvpotterycourses   SCHOOL       classes, workshops and special events
         Location: Hoxton E2 and Lee Valley                   Courses: Throwing, sculpting,   for adults and children 10 and over.

         E10, London               UN PETIT TOUR DE TERRE     handbuilding, slip casting, general skills   Cone 6 electric firing, white stoneware
         turningearth.org          Courses: All levels, hand-building,   for beginners.   and a selection of other clay bodies,
                                   surface decoration, making tools, raku,   Weekly classes & courses  glazes made in-house
           FRANCE                  glazing.                   Dates: 1-5 day courses, weekly classes,   Dates: Ongoing start dates; days,
                                   Full-board accommodation available  year-round        evenings and weekends
         L’APIPOTERIE /E. PENSA    Dates: All year round,     Location: Andalucia        Location: 12 W. Spring St. Illinois USA
         Courses:  Handbuilding for utilitarian   Monday 9am to Friday 5pm  totemceramics.com  staceypottery.com
          EVENTS                         Do you have an event you’d like listed?
                                         Email us at claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk for free inclusion
                                                                                         Janice, which will premiere in February
          RUNNING                    JANUARY                   2  6 FEB                 2020.
          UNTIL                     14 JAN  18 APR           Spring Fair 2020           10am – 6pm
                                                              International buying show
                                                                                         Contemporary Applied Arts, London
                                   Barry Steadman – Ceramic Showcase  NEC Birmingham     caa.org.uk
          UNTIL 17 JAN
                                                              springfair.com
                                   City Art Gallery, Leeds
          Staffordshire University 3D   craftcentreleeds.co.uk  5 FEB                      MARCH

          Graduates                 18 JAN
          LoveClay Ceramics Centre,                           Enkindled Spring           7 MARCH  18 APR
          Stoke on Trent           Sculpture workshop: Animals   Dylan Bowen’s lively works provide a   RISING STARS 2020


          loveclay.co.uk           The Art House, Sheffield     new energy to the surface of clay with   Rising Stars is a platform for some of the
                                   arthousesheffi  eld.co.uk    his rhythmical and highly powered   most exciting new crafts by emerging
          UNTIL 17 JAN                                        pourings of slip. The son of the noted   makers in crafts, design and applied arts.
                                    18 JAN                    slipware potter Clive Bowen, Dylan trained
          The Winter Show          Build and sculpt your ideal mug in   at Camberwell College of Arts and had   This curated, selling exhibition will be
          Thrown gallery           clay                       a studio in Oxford before establishing   showcased at the New Ashgate Gallery
          Highgate, London         Ceramics Studio, New Brewery Arts  himself in nearby Tackley in 2002. Here   and also include a programme of makers’
          throwncontemporary.co.uk                                                       professional development events and a
                                   newbreweryarts.org.uk      he has concentrated on a range of large   £500 prize.
                                                              dishes and plates as well tiles, bottles and
          UNTIL 18 JAN              18 JAN  1 MARCH          vases, thrown and hand-built.   The participants are graduating students,
          Constructed Texture      Aelwyd                     Humber Street, Fruit Market, Hull  recent graduates or at a pivotal moment
          Flow Gallery, London     Fifteen makers, all from or living in Wales,   studioeleven.co.uk  in their early career. Rising Stars is an
          fl owgallery.co.uk        create handmade items that are a pleasure             opportunity for both makers as well as
                                   to live with. Including unique vessels   8 FEB        art collectors who wish to support and
          UNTIL 19 JAN 2020        by Deiniol Williams that incorporate   Valentine’s Grown and Thrown  collect work by future stars. Rising Stars
          Southern Ceramic Group: First   stones and silt collected from the Welsh   Mix and match ceramics with plants  is organised by the New Ashgate Gallery
          Winchester Exhibition    landscape – so that a little piece of home   129 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EB  and supported by the Billmeir Charitable
          City Space,              becomes a defining part of each vessel.   bit.ly/2LV403F  Trust. The gallery works in partnership

          Winchester Discovery Centre,   Wheel-thrown tableware by James and   15 FEB    with the University for the Creative Arts,
          southernceramicgroup.org.uk  Tilla Waters are made to be used and              Farnham.
                                   enjoyed as part of our daily routine.  Sculpture: head and shoulders   Including: RISING STARS ONE YEAR ON:
          UNTIL 8 FEB              makersguildinwales.org.uk  workshop                   MITCH PILKINGTON, WINNER 2018
          Kat Wheeler Exhibition: New   25 JAN                Krishna Alageswaran will show you how   Drawn to the organic, natural forms
          Beginnings                                          to make a stylised human head/bust.   of coastal forays in her home of North
                                                              Ideal for new or experienced potters who
          Leach Pottery, St Ives   West Forest Potters – Paul Wearing                    Devon, and the worn, dry spirals of
          leachpottery.com         Open to non-members        want to make a sculptural piece – maybe   weathered conch shells, gathered

                                   Knowl Village Hall         a more abstract piece of work or a figure   on warm Caribbean beaches, Mitch
          UNTIL 11 FEB             westforestpotters.org.uk   with your own personal style (without the   communicates the sculptural qualities of
                                                              worry of trying to make a sculpture in the

          Maker in Focus: Yo Thom: Clothes   FEBRUARY         likeness of a model sat in front of you!).   these influences.
          for Food                                            The piece will be decorated using slip and   Her ceramics are instinctively handformed
          New Ashgate Gallery       1 FEB                     then left to for firing/clear glazed. Suitable   in an emotionally intuitive and mindful

          Farnham, Surrey          DIY Art Market             for beginners or more experienced   process using methods such as coiling
          newashgate.org.uk        11am, Copeland Park & Bussey Building  potters        and pinching. Each piece, a vessel for her
                                   London                     10am – 4pm, £60            emotional journey. Working in grogged
          UNTIL 11 APRIL           bit.ly/2LV403F             arthousesheffi  eld.co.uk    stoneware clay, with a palate of coastal
          Spring Craft Collection: Crafts                                                shades, and using various stains, slips and
          with the local heart      1 FEB                      21 FEB                    oxides, she enhances the natural stone-
          New Ashgate Gallery      Independent Ceramics Market  Celebrating Janice Tchalenko  like quality of the clay

          Farnham, Surrey          11am, Copeland Park & Bussey Building  A selection of work from different stages   New Ashgate Gallery

          newashgate.org.uk        London                     in the influential potter’s career shown   Farnham, Surrey
                                   bit.ly/2LV403F             alongside highlights from a new film on   newashgate.org.uk

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