Create a beautiful ceramic vessel that's entirely your own, from its shape and form to the patterns and illustrations that bring its surface to life.

In this full-day workshop with ceramicist Pascale Wilson, you'll explore traditional hand-building techniques to transform a simple lump of clay into a unique vessel of your own design.

You'll start by learning how to pinch and coil clay, experimenting with different shapes and discovering how to turn your ideas on paper into a three-dimensional form. Once you've built your vessel, you'll bring it to life with colour, pattern and illustration.

Using coloured slips and a technique called sgraffito, you'll scratch through layers of colour to reveal the clay beneath, creating intricate patterns, drawings or even a story across the surface of your piece. With a range of colours to choose from and plenty of inspiration to get you started, you'll have the freedom to make something truly personal.

Whether you're new to ceramics or looking to develop your skills, you'll enjoy a day of hands-on creativity and leave with a piece that's uniquely yours.

Your finished vessel will be fired and glazed at New Brewery Arts, ready for collection within approximately six weeks.

Tutor: Pascale Wilson
Date & Time: Saturday 23rd January, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Wheel Studio, New Brewery Arts
Price: £95 (£0.00 VAT)

Please note that this workshop is for those aged 18 and over.

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend until 4pm.

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Who is this workshop for?
Beginners and those who would like a refresher.

What you will need:
Please bring an apron or wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.

Please remove jewellery and tie hair back.

All materials and equipment are included.

One piece of work will be kiln fired with a transparent glaze or left unglazed. Firings can take up to 6 weeks. We will contact you when your work is ready for collection.

Meet Your Tutor - PASCALE WILSON

Pascale is a Bristol based ceramicist who loves to create character-rich artworks. She combines simple forms with faces, patterns and bold colours to spark narratives.

Handbuilding is a slow and freeform production method, allowing her to organically discover characters while making. Her work is reminiscent of Pre-Columbian art, using repeated patterns, animal and human forms, and an intrinsic playfulness, inspiring a sense of myth and curiosity.

Her interest in psychological states, dreams, and our collective mental landscape underpins her work, driving her to seek understanding through making.

Pascale has been teaching ceramics in Bristol for 5 years, and is passionate about sharing her knowledge. She feels clay is an accessible medium to anyone, whether they deem themselves to be creative or not, and loves to help people realise their ideas.

Her sessions cover fundamental handbuilding and decorating skills, while providing the scope for individual style and creativity within each project.