Exhibition visit: A day out to a gallery to view work that will inspire our approach to surface treatment

Practical: Taking the works in the exhibition as a starting point, paint, draw, and photograph details to inform surface colour and pattern

Presentation: Contemporary studio pottery from Bernard Leach to Aneta Regal

Practical: Continue to develop experiments with slip decoration and texture to build a library of personal resources

Optional self-directed practical day at the studio

Presentation: A brief history of slip decoration

From Thomas Toft to Dylan Bowen, we look at the artists who have used slip as their primary method of surface decoration

Practical: Working with slip

Painting, mono-printing, dipping, trailing, resist and marbling – we explore the myriad ways to use slip

Studio closed for Easter - no workshop

Presentation: A review of mid-century ceramics

We look at the post-war boom in creativity that spawned a generation of ceramicists working with abstraction & bold texture.

Practical: Tiles with texture

We’ll use and create tools to impress patterns on to a series of tiles and look at ways to work with texture on a larger scale

Museum study day: visit to the V&A ceramics department in South Kensington and the Sarah Myerscough Gallery in Mayfair to look at a broad selection of contemporary ceramics

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Review of the term: group discussion and introduction to term three