Education - School Workshops
FOUR SEASONS |
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All Saints Primary School Waddington |
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Pupils working on their tile patterns using square sections of a large "Four Seasons" design panel. All of the one hundred and eighty children in this small country school took part in the project that lasted two days. Maggie then spent several days in the studio finishing and glazing the tiles, using a colour scheme selected by the children. It then took a further two days to fix and seal the tiles to the exterior school wall. Prior to the pottery session, the children worked on a drawing project about the Seasons. Various images from these drawings were photocopied, cut out and collaged together to form a design panel. The collaged picture was then gridded in to squares and cut up for the children to copy on to clay. |
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Spring with Easter egg and sheep |
Summer seaside scene |
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Autumn landscape |
Winter scene with snowman |
 Maggie with the Mareham Le Fen Primary School Children and their Teacher Proudly displaying their Four Seasons Tile Panel |
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| Over the course of two days Maggie worked with over two hundred children, from Reception to Year 2 pupils, to construct all the tiles needed for the project. The tiles were left to dry out slowly for about two weeks and then fired to 1000 degrees in an electric kiln. Using the colours from the original drawings, Maggie was able to recreated the colour scheme in stoneware glazes. The tiles were then fired a second time to 1260 degrees to fuse the glaze on to the clay. Finally the tiles were fixed to the school wall. The finished piece of art work was water proof and frost proof and the colours are durable and will not fade. |
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PRIORY LSST HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN
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Tracy worked two days a week for three months on this residency at The Priory school in Lincoln. This project involved five classes of Year 8 and Year 9 pupils. The pupils initially made decorative thumb pots and coiled vessels to form the spacing beads and bases of the poled garden sculptures. |
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| A subtle range of stoneware glazes were applied to the biscuit fired pieces. Finished items were threaded on to copper poles fixed securely into the ground. The work blends in with the garden plants and is frost proof. | ||
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TILES |
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Working from the students designs, slabs were rolled, cut and textured to create the tiles.
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SWIMMING POOL PORT HOLES |
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| Colourful port hole tile panels created by the students, were fixed on to boards and placed around a new swimming pool. Duncan Envision glazes were painted on to the biscuit fired tiles and fired to a vibrant gloss finish. | ||
OTHER WORKSHOPS TO BE ADDED
FRENCH FLOWER TILES
JUBILEE OLYMPICS
PORTRAITS
TREES
