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BRAND NEW FOR AUTUMN - 4 week Pottery Evening Course.

We are delighted to have Ellie back with us for a 4 week Evening Course. You'll complete a range of different projects including a pinch pot vase, s'graffitto dish, Christmas decorations and throwing on the wheel - learning different skills each week.

Week 1:
Group A - Making and decorating hand-rolled Christmas decorations and gift tags.
Group B - Learn how to prep clay, throw a pot on the wheel, trim your thrown piece and add a handle.

Week 2:
Group A - Learn how to prep clay, throw a pot on the wheel, trim your thrown piece and add a handle.
Group B - Making and decorating hand-rolled Christmas decorations and gift tags.

Week 3: Sgraffito Dish - Create a unique design on a dish using the Sgraffito technique - carving away layers of colour to reeal the raw clay underneath.

Week 4: Your thrown pieces will now have been bisque fired. Decorate these pieces using underglaze and learn how to glaze pots using the dipping method. If you don't wish to glaze your thrown pieces then you will have the opportunity to make a pinch pot vase.

The cost of the course includes all clay, firing and glazing costs.

Please contact us if you would like to split your payments for this course.

Have you always wanted to try ceramics? Come and join Ellie Joy Ceramics to make a stoneware plate with pressed flowers. It's a great introduction to pottery and ceramics.

You will roll and shape your clay. Press in a design of flowers and plants (feel free to bring your own, if there is something special you would like), personlise by adding text, dates and names if you wish and then add colour to your piece to bring it to life.

Ellie will take your plates and finish them with a clear glossy glaze in her kiln, so you have a piece to treasure!

Please Note: Clay can be unpredictable and there is always a small chance that it can crack, break or have little imperfections when it comes out of the kiln. We cannot be held responsible for any such outcomes should they happen.

Ellie Joy Ceramics is bringing her coiled vase workshop to the Craft Centre - come and have a fun day trying pottery.

In this class you will have the opportunity to make glass piece that will be turned into a bowl in the firing process.

You will learn about the different types of glass that you can use to create designs, be shown how to cut shapes in glass and given ideas on what design to choose. 

Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Glass fusion is a simple, yet highly rewarding craft to practise. In this session, we will create landscape pictures that when fired will slump into a wave shape that allow them to stand freely. All materials will be provided.

Spend a relaxing couple of hours designing a beautiful glass candle or tea light screen. We'll show you how to cut and position your glass ready for us to fire in our kiln.

Your piece will be taken away and fired on a special mould that will shape the glass into a curved piece that will stand around a candle or tea light, perfect for the winter months.

The price includes the cost of firing.

This is a real WOW piece and something you will be proud of show off. The Crashing Wave is secured on a wooden stand once it has been fired and looks great on a windowsill or a mantlepiece. The class is a little longer than the usual classes as there will be a step by step demonstration for you to help you to create this lovely piece of glass art. The teacher will also be on hand to assist with cutting for those new to fused glass work.

Come and learn how to make your own raw delicious chocolates infused with doTERRA essential oils such as wild orange, citrus bliss, salt and black pepper, peppermint and lime and ginger to name a few. Get creative making your own chocolate using a variety of different chocolate moulds in a relaxed environment. While the chocolates set you will learn how you can use these incredible medicinal essential oils to care for you and your loves ones and make a gift box to take them home in.

Modern calligraphy is a new way of learning calligraphy, also perfect for lefties -so no excuses!

Jane will teach you everything from the basics right though to design and layout, but the day is taken at your own pace.

All equipment will be provided, and Jane will explain and show you how and why she teaches with inks and super shiny metallic paints and different nibs.

You will go home with a nib of choice, nib holder all handouts, practice sheets and your own designed card.

Jane has taught calligraphy for many years and only works and stocks products that she knows are fit for purpose so bring some pennies for all those things you never knew you really needed!

If you already have equipment, please bring it along and Jane can advise if its right for your Modern calligraphy journey.

Make a beautiful piece of mosaic art for your garden in this workshop where you will make a mosaic 'shard'. An ideal project to practice cutting glass and make something fabulous for the garden.

Claire will take your piece away to grout and return it to the Craft Centre soon after.

Pyrography is the art of burning designs into wood - come and have a go and make a wooden decoration!

Materials included.

In this workshop you will make a large wooden house on a garden wood block with dried foliage.  

This is a piece to celebrate the seasons - the foliage is removable so you can add new plants as the seasons change.

Techniques Pippa will guide you through include decoupage, painting, drilling, wood burning and letter stamping.  There will be lots of decoupage papers and eco-friendly paints to choose from, enabling you to create a personalised mixed media artwork to take home and enjoy throughout the year.

A full day stained glass class where you will create beautiful stained glass 3D stars using the Tiffany Copper Foil Method.

Participants will learn how to cut their class for the project and then join the individual pieces together using copper foil and solder. 

A great introduction to stained glass. You'll learn to cut your glass and then piece it together with lead and solder to make a beautiful wind spinner to hang in your window.

A one day Stained Glass Workshop covering the basic design and construction of a leaded glass panel. Students will choose from a range of designs, select their coloured glass and learn how to cut the individual glass pieces.  The afternoon session will then be spent making the lead framework, and finally students will solder their finished panels, ready to take home at the end of the day.

This is a fantastic day course where you will make your own willow sculpture. No experience is necessary.

If you are new to the craft, you will be given the choice of making a duck, runner duck, heron or chicken. Then you will be guided through the processes and techniques of sculpting from willow to complete your sculpture in the day.

For the more experienced why not have a go at a hare, cat or even small dog or sheep. 

All materials are included.