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Team together! We are part of Eccleston Yards @ec

Team together!
We are part of Eccleston Yards @ecclestonyards amazing community in SW1, who support each other.. Tomorrow @wildbytart are having a Popup in The Yards to celebrate summer.. It will be super fun so please come along
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SOLD OUT in two hours, congratulations to one of o

SOLD OUT in two hours, congratulations to one of our studio’s first members @dbceramic . Deborah uses a decorating technique with bubbles and colouring oxides, Aqua - colour of the Caribbean Sea. This is testament to the maker’s skill, instagram as a tool for marketing and an appetite for handmade objects. We hope this encourages members and all future members to utilise our online SHOP as part of their 2, 6 or annual membership
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This week we are writing about how pottery can sup

This week we are writing about how pottery can support mental and emotional wellness for @MINDBODY’s blog The Enzo.

Why is now the perfect time to try pottery?
More than ever since the pandemic has forced us all to reevaluate what is important in our daily lives as humans, pottery stands out for its groundedness, its tradition and history, its perennial invitation to the individual to reconnect with the gift of our hands. Making pots with our hands revives hidden or even lost talents and renews contact with wells of interior creativity. The enforced isolation of lockdown, with the mental and physical stresses which has accompanied it, and the often imposed work from home online, gives the outlet of working in clay an added attraction. How better to escape the demands of online technology than to switch off one part of the brain and turn towards another creative side of our being? Physical stress as well as mental tensions are soothed and rechannelled in the practice of pottery: to make a pot one has to set aside all stresses and lose oneself in the almost contemplative act of making in the present moment. As we emerge battered from the pandemic, pottery can be a means of recovery, of escape, of reconfiguration, of alchemy transforming negativity into the quiet beauty of a well-crafted and realised ceramic vessel. Therapy and practical creativity combined.

Full article
https://mindbody.io/blog/wellness/how-can-pottery-support-mental-and-emotional-wellness?fbclid=IwAR1p8su-vscLX3-rOjxBgVaac83WrJc7DenFTVS28kA3TBrk5PPM0e4oIO0

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A Beginner’s Guide to Pottery: Pottery, shaping

A Beginner’s Guide to Pottery: Pottery, shaping form out of clay, starts with the simplest of pinch pots creating a small rounded vessel with the thumb pressed into a ball of clay. More complex pots emerge from the ancient craft of spiralling and joining coils of clay to form classic bowls or gourds to hold water or food evidenced in archaeological shards as being formed at the dawn of human history and still today as functional pots in Africa and elsewhere. The technique of throwing, shaping with the hands a mound of clay on a moving wheel powered by foot or electricity, to create sophisticated pots both functional and for beauty’s sake, is the discipline at the heart of Studio Pottery London. Whilst we encourage hand-building as another facet of ceramic art, the learning and practice of throwing holds a special place in our community of makers. Grounded in sound teaching and technique, our pupils and members, explore the repertoire of pots made on the wheel. From a shapeless lump of clay rise cylinders and curvaceous bowls or vases with flared rims, mugs and jugs, plates and vessels just to delight. The associated arts of turning, attaching elements such as handles, creating lids and spouts, lead to the kiln and the magical transformations wrought through heat on clay. Porous frangible pieces become hard and through the surface fusion of liquid glass in the form of glazes, ceramic vessels and objects emerge able to contain liquids, to function in the home, or adorn an environment as a self-sufficient artwork. The pleasure for the amateur of making the humblest mug to drink from is shared with the professional repeat thrower producing multiples of the same pots for sale. A pot is always rooted in function and contains its own beauty according to the skill and intention of the maker. As a three-dimensional object a pot has presence and personality. The beauty of a beginner working in clay is the assurance that something will result given patience, practice, and love for the art and craft of pottery.
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Team Studio Pottery London back together for our r

Team Studio Pottery London back together for our reopening 😍

These beautiful black burnished pots from West Afr

These beautiful black burnished pots from West Africa in the British Museum caught our attention during a Studio Members’ trip not long before lockdown. In these sensitive times we are reeling individually, nationally, and internationally, from the physical and psychological effects of the pandemic. Now we face also the tragedy of George Floyd in the US and the impact and significance of his death for the world. His death at the hands of police has come to symbolise and emphasise the reality of endemic racism in societies around the world. ‘Black Lives Matter’: how can we show our support and solidarity? At the Studio community is central to our creative life. We treasure diversity - of gender and sexuality, and extend a welcome and support to all our studio family on an equal footing. The pandemic has taught us humility; the movement set ablaze by the death of George Floyd must bring about a better world where black lives not only matter but are given the opportunities denied over centuries. We are all one as human beings, whatever our colour, gender, sexuality, or religious belief. Let our creativity in clay unite us. These pots above are pots of the dead: designed to be broken over the graves of the dead. From broken pots, out of death, may new pots arise, new life come into being.

@gregorytingay returns this Wednesday sharing with

@gregorytingay returns this Wednesday sharing with us openness and warmth to answer questions you might have about your PRACTICE via our Instagram IG.
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None of us, in this age of social media are cut off from visual sources of inspiration. We may be unable in this time to throw a pot, but we can dream of new forms, new designs, through online visual platforms. Separated by crisis, we are united through modern technology, and given sustenance and hope. With this in mind we have produced an Inspiration in Hard Times Series via Instagram IG.

David Bowie’s secret? We can all access our own

David Bowie’s secret? We can all access our own inner reserves of strength and creativity no matter how challenging the times. Here’s the library in the studio: books to stimulate the making process of all our studio family. As we approach a reopening of the Studio, images of ceramics in books or online, or indeed other forms of art or writing, can inspire new us all in new creative directions.
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Photo by @dutodom

Creating in CLAY can be a form of CONTEMPLATION: A

Creating in CLAY can be a form of CONTEMPLATION: An image of concentration in one of our members as she focuses on her work. The process of making in clay, on the wheel or hand-building, allows the maker to enter into a creative space which can be almost contemplative and which feeds and soothes the spirit of each maker.
As we gradually emerge from the worst of the pandemic, we look forward to the first steps in reopening the Studio for our members. We are so fortunate to have such a spacious studio and the reordering of the layout within to enable safe resumption of our membership work is something to be thankful for, and to celebrate in these uncertain times.
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Photo by @dutodom design by @flint_interior_design

Clay is a HUMBLE medium of the earth. Through care

Clay is a HUMBLE medium of the earth. Through careful hands and sound intent, an object of BEAUTY is created.
Potters have generous hearts; constantly inspiring, sharing and creating. This mesmerising bowl by the captivating @michel_francois_porcelain sold through our new ONLINE GALLERY
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Technical notes: Cornish Clay from St Agnes, Black Irish Clay & Porcelain. Michel’s willow ash jun glaze ((10×27)
Year: 2020
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Photo by @dutodom at @craftscouncil #collect2020

We offer experienced potters the chance to belong

We offer experienced potters the chance to belong to an intrinsic part of our ever-growing community by becoming members. We have by appointment only open day tomorrow.. If you are interested please contact the studio. Studio@studio-pottery-london.com
This stunning picture was taken last year by @cerealmag 🍁
Our members area is fully equipped, spacious, and flooded with natural light. Our expert tutors and technician are always on-hand for advice, and we run a regular programme of talks, gallery visits, and masterclasses, all aimed at nurturing community and developing your practice. You will have the opportunity to sell through our online store soon.
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STUDIO POTTERY LONDON MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES:
Studio access: Tuesday to Thursday 9am-10pm, Friday & Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 11am-6pm (Monday closed)
Full-time ceramic technician on-site
Studio hours with Gregory Tingay, Resident Potter
Access to mentoring and tutorial
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SPACE
Personal storage space (100cm long x 50cm deep x 50cm high) and access to communal storage areas. *Offsite storage available upon request
Communal library
MATERIALS
White and buff stoneware and porcelain clays from established Stoke-on-Trent suppliers can be purchased via the studio
Reasonable use of in-house glazes and firings. Communal firings are 1000oC and high-temperature glaze firings.