Description
About the Workshop
Saturday 15th August
10:00-4:00 with a break for lunch
Join the artist Alice Walton, for a fun and insightful one-day surface decoration and mark making course, where you will design and create a candle sconce or decorative wall plaque.
Participants will have the opportunity to personalise their work with patterns, textures, and imagery, making it relevant to their practice and also a functional work of art.
Throughout the workshop, Alice will introduce hand building techniques such as slab building and coiling as well as decoration techniques with both plastic and liquid slip clays.
Participants will be encouraged to explore creative expression through
techniques such as marbling, sgraffito, slip trailing, textures with tools, stencilling, stamping and inlay. Alice will also demonstrate her ribboning technique and use of the extruder, which she is known for.
Alice’s teaching and demonstrating happens within a supportive environment that encourages reflection and meaningful artistic exploration. Her demonstrations will focus on specific skills and will include tips and ideas to bring into your own making practice and will be open to questions.
By the end of the workshop, students will have created a fully hand-built and decorated ceramic candle sconce or decorative wall plaque, and will have an enhanced understanding of ceramic building and surface decorating techniques with slips and plastic clay.
This workshop is suitable for all levels.
About Alice
Alice Walton is a British ceramic artist whose intriguing labyrinthine forms have attracted international acclaim. With a forensic eye, Walton translates the seemingly familiar into highly complex and multi-layered porcelain objects. Despite featuring intensely textured surfaces and complex colours, Walton’s work is also recognised for its meditative qualities. It is this tension between the repetitive and experimental, the calm and the kinetic that make her objects so compelling.
Walton uses a landscape of objects, crafted from individual components to create abstract scenes. This repetitive nature of mark-making in turn mimics the constant review of familiar objects on daily commutes. As references, she combines collaged photography and drawing from memory which are bought into her studio to work from. This research then pivots her work away from the literal into an imaginary collection of objects.
Walton believes the creative journey becomes part of the technique, a philosophy that first emerged during her academic career. She is a Postgraduate (MA) of Ceramics from the Royal College of Art in 2018 and also completed an Undergraduate BA (Hons) Degree from the University of Brighton in which she was awarded a Distinction in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics.
