OPEN AIR CERAMICS and GLASS MARKET

This is a final call for those that wanted to book a spaces at Truro Markets but haven't got round to it yet . We have 4 people signed up for August and 3 for September. We really need 8 stands to make either event viable and look a good presence on the Piazza ( and we will decide if it runs in the next few days). Please contact Carol Scott asap by email scotpot@btinternet.com if you want to book a space

 

 

Booking Details

OPEN AIR CERAMICS and GLASS MARKET

2 dates 19^th August and 9^th September

on LEMON QUAY, Truro.

We have booked a licence for the  group to trade on Lemon Quay piazza on the above dates. As last year each day will be in the style of a French provincial town ceramics/glass market, this will be a selling direct to the public day, hopefully fun and profitable. We shall be open to the elements.

A career in ceramics video

Member Nic Harrison describes the challenges he faced when starting out, and the stumbling blocks for the ceramicists of tomorrow. Watch the video
 

Cornwall Design Fair

The Cornwall Design Fair 2010 returns 21-22 August, taking place at Trereife House. This fair offers a great opportunity to meet designers and buy exclusive craft and design products in the amazing surrounds of Trereife. A few stands left contact Georgina Le Grice/Caroline Boulton T: 01736 362750E: trereifepark@btconnect.com ASAP brochure copy deadline Mon 26th July. 

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DANKA NAPIORKOWSKA

SUMMER EXHIBITION
Invitation to the Private View
Friday 16th July 6-8pm
DANKA NAPIORKOWSKA
PAINTINGS – PRINTS – CARDS
Fishy mugs, tiles and more
EXHIBITION 16th July-23th July 2010
Open Daily 10.00am-6.00pm at
Rock Village Institute
Rock, North Cornwall PL27 6LQ
Mobile 07917 111112

ISLAMIC TILES talk by Dr Venetia Porter

Saturday 26th June at Chacewater Village Hall.
Despite this being the hottest day of the year nearly 40 members with some guests attended this excellent talk on Islamic Tiles at Chacewater. 

Venetia Porter is a curator of Islamic & Contempory Middle Eastern Art at the British Museum and is responsible for the collection of Islamic art, in particular the Arab world and Turkey as well as the collection of the modern and contemporary art of the Middle East.  

Her talk concentrated on the tile production in Turkey and Syria between the 15th and 18th centuries these tiles being characterised by their brilliant range of colours and designs. Many of these tiles made in Persia and Syria show the dominating influence of the blue-and-white porcelains of Ming China featuring plant and animal forms. The range of tiles shown was extensive, from individual examples to larger panels and decoration of whole buildings, including the most spectacular examples of Iznik tiles to be seen in Istanbul, the most famously in the ‘Blue Mosque’.  

Outstanding tiled buildings from the 14th & 15th centuries can be seen in Samarkand while the best examples from the 16th & 17th centuries are in Isfahan with Damascus the prominent tile-producing city during this period. 

Closer to home, Venetia showed us the work of William De Morgan and his tiled ‘Arab Hall’ in Leighton House, London. Stimulating and informative, this event was very well attended and received by the CCGG and friends. 

Summer group exhibition

This years summer group exhibition runs until Saturday 10th July at St Peter's Church Hall, Port Isaac. Twenty ceramicists and glassmakers from the group have got together to transform the village hall and  exhibit their most recent work. This is the 3rd year that they have held their summer exhibition at Port Isaac. There is an exciting variety of work and styles  which ranges from large raku vessels from Penny McBreen, highly original teapots from Andy Titcomb, and delicate bowls from Frances Osborn, plus work from many more including Martin Jones, Heather Swain, Nicky May, Sue Gordon, Sirone Devadason, Jane Suchodolski, Linda Jewell, , Jane Marks, Jenni Phillips, Barbara Bell, Rowan Fawdon, Samme Charlesworth and Val Andrews, plus glass from Sarah Trewellha, David Stephens and Brenda Albert, . Danka Napiorkowska has been invited as a guest artist  to show her  pastels of flowers and fish  subjects which combine a vibrancy of colour with blended tones  and for which she is well known. 

Port Isaac members exhibition

Danka Napiorkowska

Cornwall Open Studios 29th May - 6th June. Look for the orange 'O'

Danka is taking part in the Open Studios event this year and hopes you will visit her if you are in this part of Cornwall. Open 12pm-6pm daily but closed on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd June. Her new studio is not finished so she is using a marquee in the garden, all sign-posted. Her present studio (very small) is also available for viewing work.
Although there are 150 artists/craftspeople opening their studios in Cornwall there are only 4  in North Cornwall, fortunately they are situated close together if you want to make a day of it.
Please go and see her new work, refreshments available!

Egyptian paste workshop

Saturday the 13th and 27^th March at Fraddon Pottery

Seven eager students arrived at Fraddon Pottery for a much anticipated and exciting day to make buttons and beads. Barbara Bell began the day with short history and explanation of Egyptian paste and this was followed by instruction from both Fran Osborne and Barbara on the process. With bags of three separate colours ready to mix under their watchful eyes, all experienced fun, laughter and problems. Our masterpieces were left to be fired on stands made by Fran.

We followed this workshop up two weeks later to check our endeavours, all beads and buttons were finished off by reaming and cleaning holes as well as any imperfections.

Then with the excitement of being confronted by many colourful beads which we could purchase from Fran or Jill along with a variety of threads and findings to finish our masterpieces, our designs were modelled and much admired. This was a light hearted and most enjoyable workshop which was much appreciated by the students.

Thank you Barbara and Fran.

Venetia Porter on Islamic Tiles

A talk by Venetia Porter on Islamic Tiles at Chacewater nr Truro on 26th June. 
Click for booking details. 

Jane Marks

Welcome to new member Jane Marks

Lampbase making and fitting workshop

Lampbase making and fitting workshop with

Penny Mcbreen

Clapper Yard pottery, Egloshayle, Wadebridge. PL27 6HZ

Saturday 22nd May 10.30 -12.30am 2010                         

 A demonstration and discussion about throwing and coiling lampbases,

where to get fittings and how to put it all together. 

£10 per member, £15 for non-member, limited numbers please book early

   for directions only please phone: 01208 813308

Barry Marshall-Johnson and Andy Nicholls

As the du Maurier Festival starts, Barry Marshall-Johnson and Andy Nicholls,will show their individual sculptural and thrown pieces in a garden and home setting from 14th to 17th of May, 11am – 5pm at Westcliff, 22 Tower Park (near Readymoney) in Fowey.

New photos

There are around 80 new photos of members work on the website.
Take a look
Please check that your email address's are correct too...lots of mail bouncing back.

CC&GG Selling Events 2010

CC&GG Selling Events 2010 - put in your diary - booking details to follow early next month.
Summer Exhibition Trereife House Gallery, Penzance 12th June - 24th June
Open Market on the Piazza Truro August 19th and September 9th
Pre Christmas Exhibition Crypt Gallery St Ives -20th - 26th November

EGYPTIAN PASTE WORKSHOP

Booking details are in the post to you all about an EGYPTIAN PASTE WORKSHOPS with Frances Osborne and Barbara Bell at Fraddon Pottery, Fraddon, Day 1 – 13th March 10 a.m. – 4p.m. Cost £35 members per day or £45 per day non members (includes clay materials). Day 2 - Jewellery Making ,27th March 10 a.m - 4 p.m. cost £15 per member £20 non member ( plus small payment for findings. Please bring your own lunch but tea/coffee provided.

Photography Day

A reminder about the Photography Day - 6th March at Jon Whittten's Studio. If you would like to have your work photographed and haven't contacted Penny McBreen yet please send your reply slip a £20 cheque and a stamped self addressed envelope ( big enough for memory stick or CD) to Penny by this Saturday 20th February.

Christine-Ann Richards

Talk and Demonstration by Christine-Ann Richards on her travels to see Chinese Ceramics and working in Porcelain. Sat 20th Feb , Chacewater Village Hall 10.30 a.m coffe for 11am start - finish approx 3.30. Please bring your own lunch, but tea/coffee provided. Tickets £10. Christine Ann will talk on Chinese ceramics, her own work and demonstrate with porcelain. She will also outline a tour of Chinese Ceramics she has offered to organise for anyone interested from CCGG in 2011. You can pay at the door if you haven't already got a ticket!

An Gwella

Following the success of the wonderful SHINE exhibition last year, the Cornwall Craft Association (CCA), the most prestigious craft and design and association in the county is thrilled to announce the launch of it's brand new and expanded contemporary craft and supplies show, "An Gwella".
For nearly thirty years the Cornwall Crafts Association has supported the craftmakers resident in Cornwall to encourage the highest standards of design and making. It also aims to reach a wider audience to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of contemporary design-led craftwork.
The Association is a member-driven self-supporting charity and has, since its inception in 1973, gained a reputation nationally for the quality of craftwork of its past and present members and attracts a wide-ranging audience from around the country. Exhibiting with the Association not only provides an outlet for selling work, but also allows the craftworker direct contact with customers who often commission work privately.
The President of the Association, HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, says: "Visitors to the Association cannot fail to be impressed by member's skill and flair by which, through work exhibited, our lives are enriched."
An Gwella means “The Best” and this is the basis of our new show; the best opportunity you will have in 2010 to get your work in front of over 6,000 committed and enthusiastic buyers from all over the county and all over the world; the best opportunity these buyers will have in 2010 to see and select from the very best the designers, makers and craftspeople of Cornwall have to offer; and the best opportunity you will have next year to market yourself to the widest possible audience of craft and design driven publications and educational facilities in the country.
Supported by several key national and locally based craft and design magazines and centres of excellence, the An Gwella show has been developed by the largest and most prestigious designer / maker association in the South West, to celebrate the quality and diversity of contemporary Cornish crafts and design. Delivering a ‘one-stop-shop’ for the best designers and makers, as well as a host of supplies not previously readily available in Cornwall.
If you have any questions or require any additional information please do not hesitate to either email angwella@cornwallcrafts.co.uk or call Rhonda on 07786 385 364.
We very much look forward to receiving your application and having you join us at what will be the best craft and design event of 2010!

CC&GG Selling Events 2010

Summer Exhibition Trereife House Gallery, Penzance 12th June - 24th June
Open Market on the Piazza Truro August 19th and September 9th
Pre Christmas Exhibition Crypt Gallery St Ives -20th - 26th November

Ceramics and Glass courses

Paul Jackson offers individual classes. Terms on request from Paul Jackson, Helland Bridge Pottery, Helland Bridge, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 4QR Tel 01208 75240
paul@paul-jackson.co.uk
www.paul-jackson.co.uk

Ceramics ‘Taster’Day with Penny McBreen
This one day workshop has been designed to offer you an introduction to the world of ceramics and pottery at a working potters studio.
For dates and details look on my website:
www.pennymcbreen.net
or telephone: 01208 813308

Viv Robertson can offer one-day workshops at my studio teaching all aspects of craft pottery. Numbers are limited to 3 except in fine weather when we can use the garden. Price is £30 per person per day. Bring a packed lunch; drinks provided.
Contact details on website:- www.gweallteagceramics.co.uk

Jenni Phillips experienced pottery teacher, offers small group and individual lessons for beginners or more advanced students. Ring 01579 345860 or email jenniphillipsceramics@gmail.com for further details.

Rowan Fawdon teaches pottery courses through Bude/Launceston Adult Education Centre tel 01288 356629

Barbarba Bell MA PGCE, experienced pottery teacher opens her Port Isaac studio to small groups (up to 4 adults). Barbara is qualified to teach up to degree level, but also loves teaching children and complete beginners. The studio is well equipped and has a wealth of reference materials. Please contact the website: www.portisaacbay.com or email barbarabelluk@aol.com.

Frances Osborne at Fraddon Pottery, has individual and small group lessons available by arrangement. Details from Frances on 01726 860206

Andy Titcomb at Rock

EXHIBITION OF POTTERY & DRAWINGS

AN EXHIBITION OF POTTERY & DRAWINGS By Mark Hutton& Donata de Reus
SATURDAY 12TH & SUNDAY 13TH DECEMBER 2009 2PM -5PM
HALF ACRE
BOSCASTLE
PL35 0BJ

Venetia Porter

Venetia, who we hope will give us a talk on Islamic Tiles next year was interviewed by Jenny Murray on Woman’s Hour on Thursday morning. She was discussing a painting in the British Museum contemporary Islamic collection. Listen to Venetia Porter.

Jennie Hale Open weekend

AGM at Ladock with John Maltby

A well attended AGM was this year held at Ladock Village Hall and our guest speaker, John Maltby, regaled us with a humorous and instructive talk about his methods and experience in making his internationally renowned sculptural pieces. He also reflected on the modifications he has lately made to his methods and from this we can all draw encouragement to continue experimenting and prolonging our chosen paths in ceramics and glass. Thank you John.

Pate de Verre Workshop

July 2009.
Ready to explore "the unknown" we started by making some new acquaintances while Gayle Matthias, Senior Lecturer at Tremough, gave an enjoyable talk and visuals of her career and work, mostly in glass.
During the second part of the workshop we sampled the pate de verre process. Using prepared simple rectangular moulds and ourown designs we lined the inner surface of these moulds with fine glass granules mixed with of water and a binder then prepared the surface for firing under Gayle's control. There were mixed responses to the process. Some were surprised by the patience needed; others simply enjoyed it. And one committed convert was made to Pate de Verre,
Satisfactory result I would say and soon we will see the fruits of our endeavours.

Viv Robertson

Pete Bousfield, Sylvie Glinister and CC&GG member Viv Robertson are exhibiting at the the Falmouth Poly, Church Street, Falmouth for a week. the show is called REUNION It features the work of 3 old college mates who were at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art in the 60's and now work in Cornwall.
Viv Robertson is also exhibiting at The Great Atlantic Gallery, Falmouth. It runs from August 9th for a week and features the work of painter/printmaker Pat King and Viv Robertson's ceramics.

Exhibition of ceramics and glass at Port Isaac

For the second year the CCGG mounted its Springtime exhibition at theChurch Hall in Port Isaac and the sterling efforts of members resulted in a stunning presentation of the wide variety of work undertaken the CCGG. The valuable success and experience of this exhibition and its management will certainly help us with future selling events for the membership. For copies of the photos email westcliffpottery@btinternet.com

AGM and John Maltby

There has been a change of speaker for the CCGG AGM on 10th October at Ladock. Tim Andrews can't make it so we have booked John Maltby. He's giving an illustrated talk about his work and demonstration. AGM starts from 1.30 ( with pasties) John Maltby 2.00 - 3.30 , and AGM 4-5pm
John Maltby was born in Lincolnshire in 1936. He studied at Leicester College of Art and Goldsmith's College in South London and went on to teach art.In 1962 he joined David Leach at Lowerdown Pottery in Devon. He started his own workshop at Stoneshill, near Crediton, Devon in 1964 and has remained there since. For twelve years he made domestic wares and studio pieces in earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, and then discontinued the kitchen and tableware in favour of one-off pots.John's work is characterised by the decoration, often contrasting dark and light areas of colour, and its sense of form. He lectures in the UK and abroad, and is exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

OPEN AIR CERAMICS and GLASS MARKET

2 dates 20th August and 10th September
on LEMON QUAY, Truro.
We have booked a licence for the group to trade on Lemon Quay piazza on the above dates. As last year each day will be in the style of a French provincial town ceramics/glass market, this will be a selling direct to the public day, hopefully fun and profitable. We shall be open to the elements.

The requirements for each applicant are:
Provide his/her own table (6ft x 3ft max) and cloth to cover surface, dropping to ground to hide storage boxes and tied to stop flapping in the wind.
Be responsible for his/her own display, sales and packaging.
May provide own protection from the elements (Gazebo or umbrella) if desired (carefully weighted down on pavement, and you are liable for its safe use).
Cars and small vans only on the quay, must be removed and parked elsewhere by 8.30am and not return until 5pm.
You can book for either or both days.
Booking form

David and Margaret Frith

Don't forget to book to see David and Margaret Frith at Tremough, Falmouth
Saturday 16th May 2009 10am - 4pm
members £15, non-members £20
Contact Fran Osborne, Fraddon Pottery, Chez Nous, Fraddon Cornwall TR9 6QO

Exhibition of Ceramics and Glass

Masterclass with David and Margaret Frith

Saturday 16th May 10 am – 4 pm, Design Centre, Tremough Campus, University College, Falmouth
David and Margaret Frith set up their first workshop in 1963. Their reputations are well established. David with his mastery of the potter's wheel makes majestic pieces decorated with his personal style of waxed motifs under heavy reduction overglazes and glaze trailing. Margaret concentrates on individual porcelain with carved decoration or coloured glazes as well as producing a comprehensive range of domestic ware and decorative stoneware. Both are Fellows of the Craft Potters Association and David is a selected member of the Crafts Council. They both have work in many private and public collections and exhibit widely in the UK and abroad.
It should be an informative and entertaining day and will include a talk, and demonstrations of throwing and decorating from both David and Margaret. For more details of their work go to http://www.pottery.demon.co.uk/
There is great interest in this event – so book early, tickets are limited.
Cost to CCGG members £15, non members £20

For booking details email njphillips@clara.co.uk

Use of Expressive Colour and Perspective with oil pastels

A workshop run by Julia Rowlands
Sunday 26th April 10am – 4pm The Institute, Market Place, Padstow PL28 8AL
The use of stunning and vibrant colours by the Expressionist painters, is the inspiration behind the techniques on this course. The oil pastel sketch is used in the field or in the studio from photographs as a preparatory tool for painting because of the unlimited possibilities to experiment with colour. A sketch provides the freedom for bold mark-making and playing with intensive colours.
The day course covers:
• An introduction to the colour wheel and its use.
• Gives the opportunity for all levels to be dynamic with intensive colours. Mixing complementary colours and layering and how effective and simple sweeps of colour can describe elements in our landscape; light and shadow, depth, form and texture.
• A personal exploration of colour and the expressive use of your own colour palette
• A demonstration
Materials to bring:
(Acid free) sketch book, Wetwipes(or similar) to clean hands
Kitchen towel. Please bring your own lunch ( tea and coffee provided)
IMPORTANT the pastels do not wash out of clothes

Julia Rowlands work can be seen at www.cryofthegulls.co.uk

Cost to CCGG members £15, non members £20

For booking details email njphillips@clara.co.uk

Simon Moore Talk

Simon Moore will be giving an illustrated talk on craftsmanship the design process, and his work in glass and ceramics. Saturday 14th March 2009 11am - 1pm at Design Centre Tremough Campus University College Falmouth. Cost to members is £5 non members £7.50
There are still places available. Replies with stamp addressed envelope please to:-

Fran Osborne,
Fraddon Pottery,
Chez Nous,
Fraddon
Cornwall
TR9 6QO

or phone
01726 860206

British Ceramics Biennial

This prestigious new award scheme is open to professional designers, makers, artists and companies who have been working in the UK for at least 2 years.
Submission is free.
Initially please send images of examples of your work - these need not be the pieces you would hope to exhibit
Deadline for applications: 16 March 2009
Full details and the application form.

Ceramico Colours

Ceramico Colours will offer a 5% discount to all members of CCGG from their price list items, on all orders under the value of £100. For orders over the value of £100 a 10% discount will be offered.
To qualify for the above discount you must give your membership number when placing the order. Ceramico's details can be found on www.ceramicocolours.co.uk Tel/Fax: - + 44 (0) 1782 812598 E-mail:- mail@ceramicocolours.co.uk , or catalogue from Enterprise House, Moorland Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST6 1JQ

Wildlife painting and drawing course

Wildlife painting and drawing course with Jennie Hale at Longham Pottery, Coryton, Okehampton.
Full details

Discounted Pottery Supplies

Discounted Pottery Supplies from CTM Exeter

“Although we hope that you find our prices to be the most cost-effective in the country, we would be pleased to offer a 5% discount on all raw materials, frits, clear glazes, coloured glazes, underglazes, tools, decorating slips, kiln furniture and clays at Exeter collected prices subject to CC&GG members quoting their membership number at the time of order.
See.... CTM Pottery Supplies web site

Ceramics Course at Harrow

We have just heard they are proposing to close the Ceramics Course at Harrow.
If you would like to add your name to the E Petition protesting at the closure of Harrow Ceramics Degree Course then follow the link.

Studio visit & demonstration at Port Isaac Pottery

January 20th 2pm - 4pm
Cost £7.50 ( £10 non members)
We have been invited by Barbara Hawkins to look around the pottery that she and her husband Bill have run for many years at Port Isaac. She will also demonstrate some decorating techniques during the afternoon.
Barbara has unique artistic & decorating skills working both on clay and canvas. She met Bill at art school over 30 years ago when she was training as a graphic artist and he as a potter. They have built up a partnership working together in Port Isaac. Their home/studio is the old Methodist Chapel next to the harbour and the original organ and galleried seating area are intact.
Michael and Barbara are fellows of the Craft Potters Association
"All of our pieces are handmade to the highest standards and we take pride in the high quality of our work. Precious metal lustres and gold are applied and each piece has at least three firings in both our electric and oil-fired kilns. The bold and elegant forms complement the watercolour-style decoration, which are often inspired by our local surroundings. The small harbour, the fish, the local flora and fauna provide unlimited design potential for both the form and decoration of our pottery."
Venue - Port Isaac Pottery, The Old Chapel, Roscarrock Hill, Port Isaac, Cornwall ,PL29 3RG (North of Wadebridge – take B3314, north Cornish coast road out of Wadebridge, then B3267) Its advisable to park at the top of the village and walk down to the harbour, pottery is close by.

Social Invitation from Westcountry Pottery

Westcountry Potters has sent an invitation to any member of CCGG to join them at their Post-Christmas get-together social lunch, Sunday 25th January 2009, Café du Parc, Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Kingsley Road, Bideford EX39 2QQ, 12 for 12.30pm. Lunch costs £16 with an excellent menu.
After lunch, there will be a short talk in the upstairs workshop by Harry Juniper, about the history of North Devon pottery in general, and his traditional scraffito harvest jugs in particular.
If you would like to come to the lunch, please email karen24edwards@aol.com for details and a booking form, which must be returned no later than Wednesday 7th January 2009, together with cheque made payable to Westcountry Potters Association. Cheques can be dated in January if you wish.

Aberystwyth International Ceramics Conference

If anyone is interested in going to the International Ceramics Conference on 3rd to 5th July 2009 in Aberystwyth (cost £166 inc. accommodation) CCGG has 3 spare tickets. Please contact Andy Nicholls 01841 520992 andrewnicholls517@btinternet.com for more details.

A Celebration of Wood-firing

A weekend workshop
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April 2009
Following on from the success of April’s “Salt & Soda” weekend workshop at the Whichford Pottery, just north of Oxford, this two-day event, supported by the CPA will feature practical master-classes, talks and seminars by several of Britain’s leading exponents of wood-firing. Guest potters already confirmed are Charles Bound, Svend Bayer, Nic Collins and David Garland. Places on the Weekend Workshop are limited, so early booking is advisable. Cost £125 (£100 CPA members). Lunches, coffee, tea and home-made cakes included.
To book a place, or to find out more, please contact the Octagon team.
Whichford Pottery, Whichford, Nr. Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire CV36 5PG.
Telephone 01608 684416. Email theoctagon@whichfordpottery.com

A new wood-fired kiln has been built at Whichford, in readiness for the workshop weekend. It was fired for the first time recently to cone 10 reduction and the fired results are very encouraging. It will be fired on the Saturday of the workshop weekend, (by John Jelfs) and opened on the Sunday.

The weekend, which is supported by the CPA, will be fun and informative with something for everyone interested in hand-made ceramics. Comments at the last Whichford workshop (Salt & Soda) included:

“Great venue, great programme and organisation”
“Lots of info and friendly potters to talk to”
“Absolutely wonderful! Kiln aspects as well as talks and demos made a rounded programme.”
“A total buzz from start to finish.”

This weekend also marks the opening of a major exhibition of wood-fired work (with a preview for workshop attendees) on Saturday April 25th. As well as the guest potters, exhibitors will include Ben Brierley, Ray Finch, John Jelfs, Adam Keeling, Jim Keeling, Stephen Parry, Phil Rogers, Robert Sanderson and others.

For Sale

Potterycrafts Topworker kiln P5959, 6.2 cu ft, 3 years old, in very
good condition. Comes with two shelves, props, digital controller,
brand new spare set of elements. £950 ono.

B178 Millacron 11 cone drive wheel. 3 years old, in excellent condition as neither of us can throw! £300 ono.
Contact Craig and Cat for more details

Report from Rosemary Cochrane

Dear CCGG Members,
It is a delight to keep in touch with you and when I heard you were holding your AGM in St Ives, with hot pasties followed by a tour of the Leach Pottery, I couldn’t resist asking if I could “tag along” and make it a weekend break in St Ives! Thank you so much for your group’s friendly company. I hope you will enjoy a short report I have compiled and which will be published in South Wales Potters’ newsletter in the future.

Combine an Indian Summer, B & B with a view of the sea, a plethora of art and craft galleries, exhibitions, paintings and pots to die for, time for the necessary indulgence of endless beach combing and sketching, fish and chips on the harbour wall, a garden haven of wonderful plants and even more wonderful sculptures, a restored museum and working pottery …. you’ve guessed? I could only have been in St Ives in mid October!
The Leach Pottery
It has been well publicised that The Leach Pottery in St Ives was rescued from neglect and semi dereliction by the Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust. With help from the Penwith District Council they finally secured £1.7m for the restoration project. The original pottery and cottage are now listed buildings and the wood-fired climbing kiln is a scheduled ancient monument. The Old Pottery and Museum, new workshops and exhibition space were officially opened to the public earlier this year.

We were shown round the Old Pottery by Joanna Wason who, together with one of our group, Nic Harrison, reminisced about the days they had worked there. The clay store, throwing room, a small corner where the original Leach kick wheel still stands, seem to be just as they always have been. I could so easily visualize the space alive with turning wheels and wet pots. The old fireplace, where many a philosophy and glaze property would have been discussed, seemed to be whispering tales of some of the most important and influential potters of the 20th century who worked and visited The Leach Pottery. In an adjacent room the climbing kiln, built in 1923 and used until the 1970’s, stood quiet, with the flames and heat of past firings long gone. Imagine
the many thousands of pots which were unpacked from the chambers, many must still be treasured by their owners.

Jack Doherty was appointed Lead Potter at the beginning of the year and he talked to us about his own work in the loft studio. There he has set his wheel in the same place that Bernard Leach worked, under the window that looks down the road towards the town. The sense of part of the continuing tradition of studio pottery at St Ives clearly means a great deal to Jack. He produces his own pieces in porcelain for soda firing and has designed the soda fired standard ware to be sold at the Leach Pottery. The newly built ground floor workshop and studio has space for up to four potters and four MA students who will share their time between working for themselves and making pieces for the standard range. At present two MA students have been taken on.

The main and current Exhibition, The Bernard Leach Story curated by Emmanuel Cooper, was displayed in a new building dedicated to changing exhibitions. Another room was filled with John Leach’s pots, both his individual pieces and the Muchelney Pottery kitchen and table wares. Outside a timber walkway leads to the gallery and shop and it was a delight to linger on the wooden bridge that spans a gravelled space set out with planters and bamboos: a Cornish Japanese garden. In the gallery “Formed in Fire” showed new pots from eight kilns. The outstanding piece for me was a soda fired open form by Gail Nichols, rich with flashes of rich terracotta and tangerine surfaces and brown orange peel drifting into the inside of the bowl where a pitted, soft grey surface coated the concave sides.

Across the car park there are three new kilns: a small soda kiln a much larger one and a good sized kiln for stoneware reduction firings. The first results were, Jack Doherty reported, pleasing and the future results are anticipated with great enthusiasm.

Described as the iconic site for potters all over the world, the Leach Pottery in St Ives has to be on the “must visit “ list of potters and anyone who loves clay. I would have gone even without the temptation of the CCGG and a hot pasty.

Sutton Taylor and Michael Sheppard
The New Millennium Gallery was almost a last minute choice to visit over the weekend. But what a glorious unexpected treat was in store for us. Sutton Taylor’s lustre ceramics are for me the crème de la crème of this wonderful, complex glaze effect. Beautifully displayed in acres of quiet white space on two floors of this gallery, his large bowls, tall bottles and slab containers pulsated with vibrancy that only lustre can bestow. On the walls, near the pots, the paintings of Michael Sheppard hung in symbiotic elegance. As lifelong partners, the common creative inspiration of Sheppard and Taylor has been the love of Cornwall and the ever changing Cornish landscape. The juxta position of the lustre ware and abstract paintings was clearly not contrived in any way but was inspiring beyond description. I have to say that sometimes the amazing visual impact just takes your breath away and words are as impossible as they are superfluous. If I had sent you a post card it would have simply read: “Wish you were here!”
Rosemary Cochrane
Nov. 2008

VISIT TO SVEND BAYER’S POTTERY

VISIT TO SVEND BAYER’S POTTERY and Pre Christmas Sale
And John and Jan Mullin’s Pottery
SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER
Back by popular demand, we will be returning to Svend Bayer’s studio for his annual sale, at which you should be able to acquire wonderful examples of work by this renowned potter at bargain prices. We shall also have the opportunity to see his remarkable wood fired kilns, in which his work is fired to cone 12 over a period of about four days. The pottery is at Duckpool Cottage, Sheepwash, Black Torrington, North Devon Ex21 5PW and is best approached from Highampton on the Holsworthy to Hatherleigh road, turning left to travel due north, passing straight through Sheepwash village square, continuing for about 1.5 miles to Filleigh Moor, grid reference SX 485086. Please aim to be there at 10.30 am.
Lunch will be at the Half Moon at Sheepwash 12.30 –2pm
There has been a change of plan in the afternoon. Clive Bowen is in France that weekend, so instead we go on to visit John and Jan Mullin’s pottery at September House, Parnacott , Holsworthy , Devon EX22 7JD For details of John’s work click here
Please contact Jenni Phillips on 01579 345860 or njphillips@clara.co.uk if you are intending to come. Please try to share transport where possible. If I can, I will link up those who want to share lifts.

"Shine" Christmas Fair

CCGG member Viv Robertson of Gweall Teag Ceramics will be participating in the "Shine" Christmas fair at Trelowarren Gallery.
This runs from Friday November 28th to Sunday 30th.
Further details from:-
shinefair@cornwallcrafts.co.uk tel: 0781 317 0612

Committee changes

The CC&GG committee was slightly changed at the AGM.
Chair Jenni Phillips
Vice-Chair & Glass Rep Jill Whittaker
Treasurer Carol Scott
Membership Secretary Danka Napiorkowska
Secretary Nicky May
Events Barbara Bell, Frances Osborne, Jon Whitten, Penny McBreen, Andrew Nicholls, Nina Ducker.
Website Barry Marshall-Johnson
Webmaster Andy Titcomb

Kiln For Sale

Hobby Tech 40 - with furniture
Hexagonal top loader 3 KW Max 1300
Interior 15" x 13"
£300 o.n.o
Tel 01209 217305

AGM

Just a reminder to those of you who haven't sent your slips back for the AGM/Leach visit ( we have had nearly thirty already) to get them to Penny by next Mondays committee meeting or email Penny Mcbreen

Nic Harrison Ceramics

Moving on – again!
Nic Harrison Ceramics, 73 Meneage Street, Helston, Cornwall, has relocated to Penhale Jakes
Our lease is due for renewal and sadly we have decided not to commit ourselves for another term. We have enjoyed our time in this high street location, making new friends and meeting new and past customers, but we are now ready for another move. My wife Jackie will also be moving her weaving workshop to Penhale Jakes and we will both be able to enjoy the stunning views overlooking the sea towards the Lizard Peninsula, a far cry from the roar of traffic, which passes the Gallery as I write.
Many of our past customers have found us in Helston, not realising that we relocated from Trelowarren in 2005 after 25 years there. Starting out in business in 1980 was not an easy task and each year has bought its highs and lows. Since then, we have shown our work successfully at various events and we still enjoy the direct contact with our customers.
My work has taken a slightly different direction in recent months as I have enjoyed using Porcelain clay, and experimenting with copper glazes. I continue to use stoneware in both the Domestic Ware and Individual pieces.
We intend to sell our work at more shows and exhibitions locally and nationally. These will be posted on the Events page on our website. If you would like to go on our mailing list, for information and invitations to events and exhibitions, please send us your postal address.
The Pottery and Weaving Studios are at Penhale Jakes, which is located between Ashton and Breage 200 yards off the A394 Helston to Penzance road. Visitors are welcome during working hours.
Contact us through the website www.nicharrison.com
Write to us at
Trelowarren Pottery Limited,
Penhale Jakes,
Ashton, Helston,
Cornwall, TR13 9SE.
If you are travelling some distance to see us, then it maybe worth a phone call first.
Telephone 01736 762638.

Pots on the Piazza

11th September 2008
Members will be converging on Truro’s busy Lemon Quay Piazza on Thursday 11th September for a special Potters Market Day.
Nic Harrison from Trelowarren Pottery and Frances Osborne from Fraddon Pottery showing some of the pots which will be on their stalls at the potters Market.
11th October AGM St Ives (Change of venue) plus visit to Leach Pottery - details to follow...

ConTrad Expo

Contemporary and Traditional items
Past & Present TOGETHER Under One Roof!
at The Westpoint Exhibition Centre, Exeter, Devon
Saturday & Sunday August 16th & 17th.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS TEL DCAF 01363 82571.
The name of this event has changed from the "Devon's Collectors Festival" to ConTrad Expo in order to reflect more accurately the range and exciting mix of Contemporary and Traditional items that will be brought together at Westpoint for the first time.

The new event will allow both regular and new exhibitors the chance to offer a much wider selection of items to buyers, ranging from TRADITIONAL antiques, retro, collectables, furniture and memorabilia, to 20th century CONTEMPORARY art and design, sculpture, photography, pottery, ceramics, studio glass, textiles, lighting, jewellery, and individual items of hand made furniture, etc.
More details

Open Studios

This year Barry Marshall-Johnson is taking part in the above event from May 24th to 30th.
If you are in Fowey he would be delighted to welcome you at WESTCLIFF POTTERY 22 Tower Park, Fowey, Cornwall, PL23 1JB.
Tel: 01726 832795
email: westcliffpottery@btinternet.com
www.westcliff-pottery.co.uk

Craft and Produce fair

Claire Hoskin is organising a Cornish Craft and Produce fair.
The event will be held at the Kingsford venue Flambards in Helston in August.
It will be a 2 day event with the choice to book a 1 day or 2 days and there will be 45 stall spaces available. More details from john.hoskin@btopenworld.com .

New members

Welcome to new members Tim Wayne and Sally Sanderson

Ian Gregory master class

A wonderfully, inspiring day with Ian Gregory demonstrating his skills with clay and discussing his methods.

Lynda Jewell

New member Lynda Jewell
began her career in 1977, training with John Buchanan of 'Anchor Pottery' St. Ives.
She started her own pottery in 1983 in Redruth.
She works with a gas kiln using bright and basic colours- celedon, tenmoku and rutile glazes.

New members

Welcome to new members Samme Charlesworth. Choochit Hawkey, Lynda Jewell and Hugh Perry

Ian Gregory Masterclass

Saturday 15th March 2008
10 am – 4 pm
Design Centre, Tremough Campus,University College, Falmouth

Ian's Gregory’s work spans a great many areas of ceramics, including salt glazed stoneware, life-size statuary, raku and mixed media installation. He was one of the first potters to experiment with paperclay and he is an innovative and highly original kiln builder His figurative sculpture, both human and canine, have a linear, craggy quality. His experimental approach with materials and processes has enabled him to produce work of great vitality.

“’If the role of the artist is to make the ordinary extraordinary, then Ian Gregory's work exemplifies this ideal.” - Peter Starkey

Join him for a demonstration and discussion about his work, paperclay and kiln firing

Cost to members £15 non members £18

If you would like to reserve a place/places on the Ian Gregory Masterclass
for Saturday 15th March 2008, please send a cheque for the amount and include your name, address, membership no., email or telephone no. and stamp addressed envelope please to
Frances Osborne, Fraddon Pottery, Fraddon, Cornwall TR9 6QU - Tel: 01726 860206

Save Rufford Ceramics Centre

Outcome of Meeting with Notts County Council, 4th January

Thank you for signing the petition to Save Rufford Ceramics Centre! There are now 1,276 signatories.

On 4th January, Carl Gray and Katie Greenfield, as representatives of the Save Rufford Ceramics Centre (RCC) Petition Group, met with NCC to discuss the petitioners’ concerns. We requested:
1. A 3-month stay of execution at The RCC (Rejected by NCC)
2. Clarification on the detail of NCC’s new model (Rejected by NCC)
3. To run an initial 3-month feasibility study for forming a National Ceramics Centre at Rufford, to build on The RCC’s reputation, embrace NCC’s local aims & objectives and open up new sources of funding for the whole community (Rejected by NCC)
It was apparent in the meeting that NCC’s representatives are in denial that they are custodians of a centre of international repute which is respected throughout the world.
We have written an open letter to NCC, urging them to reconsider.
You can read this letter and a detailed summary of what was discussed at the meeting at the Save Rufford Blog:
To up the pressure on NCC, we need to make more people aware of what is happening. Please ask your friends and colleagues to sign the petition:

In our and 1,276 other people's views to date, NCC's approach is fundamentally wrong and NCC, the community it serves and the UK will be poorer for it.
We welcome your feedback and comments via the blog, the petition forum or on email.
Thank you for your support!
Carl Gray and Katie Greenfield

Celebrating Salt and Soda

Celebrating Salt and Soda - a weekend workshop
Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th April 2008 Informative and FUN, this two-day workshop, supported by the CPA and hosted at Whichford Pottery, just north of Oxford, will feature practical demonstrations, discussions and seminars by many of Britains'leading exponents of salt and soda firing techniques - Jack Doherty, Ian Gregory, Mark Griffiths, Lisa Hammond, John Jelfs and Phil Rogers. In addition, Jim Keeling, famous for his big-ware flowerpots, will throw an enormous pot in stages over the 2 days! Two new kilns are being built especially for this event, and weekend workshop visitors will be able to see firings and openings, and be part of the excitement of vapour glazing. A celebratory feast is also planned for the Saturday night.
The weekend will also mark the start of a major selling exhibition of new work in salt and soda by Sheila Casson, Richard Dewar, Jack Doherty, Ray Finch and Winchcombe Pottery, Lisa Hammond, Ian Gregory, Mark Griffiths, John Jelfs, Toff Millway, Phil Rogers, Peter Starkey, Ruthanne Tudball, Sarah Walton and Alistair Young. The exhibition will be held in the spectacular new exhibition space at Whichford Pottery - The Octagon.We expect great interest from the potting community and places are limited; so early booking is advisable! Plenty of good local accommodation is available, and also camping at the village pub.

Tickets £100 (£80 CPA members & concessions)

Please contact The Octagon at Whichford Pottery, Whichford, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5PG

Tel: 01608 684416 www.theoctagon.co.uk

saltandsoda@theoctagon.co.uk

Jenni Hale Open Weekend

Jenni Hale is having an open weekend 1st and 2nd December Everyone is welcome
for details go to www.jenniehale.co.uk

Bauble Blowing demonstration

The Glassblowing Studio is open to the public this Friday 30th November 2007 for a Christmas Bauble Blowing demonstration.
So if you've ever wondered how it's done, then please come and join us on Friday 30 November between 6 and 9pm and warm yourselves up by the furnace with a glass of mulled wine and a hot, home made mince pie.
We shall also be having a "Bag of Baubles" raffle in aid of Cancer Research UK.
It's wonderful to be able to show people how Malcolm makes beautiful christmas baubles out of molten glass and a bit of puff, he makes it look so easy!. (If you fancy having a go at glassblowing why not book a glassblowing lesson, details on our website www.malcolmsutcliffe.co.uk or give us a ring 01326 377020)

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday evening!

Malcolm Sutcliffe Glass Gallery & Studio
2 West Street,
Penryn,
Cornwall
TR10 8EW, UK

Christmas Evening

CC&GG member Andy Nicholls and his wife Alison, have kindly invited members to a Christmas evening get together on Sunday December the 16th from 4 pm. Partners are invited and everyone is asked to bring some food and drink, American supper style. There will be a ceramic video or two and some games. Suggestions welcome.
Andy and Alison live in a very new and interesting property at Trevone near Padstow. Their house is the first to be built in the UK by Baufritz who are the leading eco house builders in Germany. His ceramic studio is slate hung with a chamomile green roof. .
The address is: The Breakers, Dobbin Road, Trevone near Padstow PL28 8QW Tel:01841 520 992
Directions:
Follow signs toward Padstow turning off toward St Merryn on the A389. Take the turning off to Trevone at Windmill (hamlet not a building) and half a mile down on the right, opposite the village hall, there is a sign to the Well Park Pub,
Dobbin Road is straight on along the private road. The house is the new slate and weather boarded house on the right next to Ocean Apartments (parking is restricted there is extra parking by the pub 300 yards away)
If you would like to join us, meet other members and have a great evening please contact Andy at the above address or telephone number or easier still email him at: andrewnicholls517@btinternet.com

Visit to Svend Bayer & Sandy Brown

SATURDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
This year we'll be returning to Svend Bayer’s studio for his annual sale, at which you should be able to acquire wonderful examples of work by this renowned potter at bargain prices. We shall also have the opportunity to see his remarkable wood fired kilns, in which his work is fired to cone 12 over a period of about four days. The pottery is at Duckpool Cottage, Sheepwash, Black Torrington, North Devon and is best approached from Highampton on the Holsworthy to Hatherleigh road, turning left to travel due north, passing straight through Sheepwash village square, continuing for about 1.5 miles to Filleigh Moor, grid reference SX 485086. Please aim to be there at 10.30 am.
Lunch will be at either the Half Moon at Sheepwash (which changes hands in early November) or the Royal George or the Beaver at Appledore. More details on the day.
We travel to Appledore to meet Sandy Brown at 2.30pm at her home, 3 Marine Parade, EX39 1PJ, where we will see her collection of expressive, colourful ceramic artwork. Please be punctual. We will later move on to Sandy’s studio, the Glove Factory.
Please contact Jon Whitten on 01208 880836 or whitten@stkew.eclipse.co.uk if you are intending to come. Please try to share transport where possible.

Feast AND Famine!

The 13th National Pottery and Ceramics Festival.
Hatfield House 3rd – 5th August
This year’s Festival coincided with the hottest weekend of the summer. A Feast of pottery and ceramics was on show but the very hot weather meant a Famine of punters.
Those who stayed away missed the chance to see fine exhibitions of ceramic art and craft with plenty of space for leisurely viewing. Here was something for everyone. The five large exhibition tents housed much that was traditional or familiar but happily there were many challenging forms especially from the numerous overseas contributors and young ceramic graduates. Surface texture (sometimes extreme) was prominent as a decorative alternative to glazing, perhaps denoting an increasingly organic influence, the best exponents showing freely made pieces. Craig Underhill and Robin Welch displayed colourful hand built pieces with sculptural appeal and Svend Bayer’s part finished vessels gave an insight into the potter’s process.

If I had to pick stars of the show from the feast of exciting work I think they would be Eddie Curtis’s exquisite reduced copper red glazes combined on new Japanese inspired forms, Linda de Nil’s monumental textured anagama fired vessels, Becky Harle’s porcelain ribbon swirls and young Akiko Hirai’s tactile Japanese tea bowls.

Sadly there was a famine of Cornish potters and interesting open air demonstrations though some of the presentations were very informative, particularly Andrew Palin’s hand building and volcanic glazes. And if you ran out of money or cheques then there was no cash machine on site for that one last ”must have” purchase! Maybe next year.

On its new bigger site, the Festival’s true value must surely be the chance to exchange ideas and pick the brains of working potters. Famous or unknown, all exhibitors I spoke to were equally happy to talk about their work and techniques. No-one more so than the enthusiastic Wai Shing Cheung from Farnham College who was engagingly vague about the glazes and clay in his exciting tea bowls!

Barry Marshall-Johnson. Westcliff Pottery, Fowey

Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM

Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM meeting with Slideshow, talk and demonstration by Simon Carroll
1pm – 5pm Ladock Village Hall, Saturday 29th September 2007

At 1pm refreshments, including free pasties, will be available plus a chance to look at and buy books and equipment.
2pm onwards, a demonstration and slide show by potter Simon Carroll followed by The Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group AGM.

Simon Carroll’s work is highly original and internationally known. The forms are made from sections that are thrown, pressed into moulds to give surface patterns and textures and assembled together often altered and pushed into eccentric shapes.
He currently works in a studio converted from a derelict airfield building near Padstow. He uses a simple vocabulary of slips and glazes in an exciting and spontaneous way giving great scope for intuitive expression.

Calender of events

14th Oct 2007
Drawing Workshop day with Davina Kirkpatrick Rock Village Institute
10am – 5pm
24th Nov 2007 Trip to Sven Bayer (sale day) and visit to Sandy Brown Workshop Devon ( group transport may be arranged )
3rd Dec – 14th Jan CCGG exhibition at Bodmin Heritage Centre Bodmin
December 2007 (to be arranged) Glass demonstration/event

23rd Feb 2008 ‘Building a relationship with a gallery’
Presentation by Jenny Bailey at Cotehele Gallery on pricing, promotion and working with a gallery Cotehele (NT) 2pm – 4pm (Barn restaurant will be open for lunch)
15th March 2008 Ian Gregory, Master class. Slideshow/Demonstration and presentation on his work and kiln building Full day Venue to be announced
17th /18th May 2008 2 Photography day workshops with Graham Barrett
10 am – 4 pm Newquay AE
May 2008 Exhibition and sale
Port Isaac
22nd June 2008 Tim Gee Porcelain Workshop visit Plymouth

September 2 day major selling event – Lemon Quay
Truro
11th October
AGM- Nic Collins talk on firing Ladock

John Leach

Master classes and workshops

Masterclasses and workshops in Cornwall
Experience an inspiring range of professionally taught master classes and workshops in the field of glass art.
www.falmouth.ac.uk/summerschool

Mould making for glass slumping & open casting

Summerschool
10th and 11th July 2007
This workshop will introduce you to basic mould making recipes so that simple, yet versatile moulds can be produced for two differing Kiln-formed glass processes. It depends what type of glass you place into/over a mould and the temperature to which the kiln is fired as to what the end result will be: Sheet glass can either be slumped into or over a mould in the kiln to create a new form and texture. Gentle, controlled heating of the surface of the sheet glass causes it to soften and deform in the kiln. Alternatively, glass cullet (chunks of broken glass) can be placed into a mould and heated until the glass melts to take on a solid shape (open casting). You will have the opportunity to make models out of a variety of materials, and working on a small scale, be able to begin to explore both processes. It would be beneficial if you had some experience of glass cutting in order to take full advantage of the time available.
Cost £199
Book the glass coldworking workshop at the same time and save £44
Both workshops £335

Contemporary Ceramics & Raku Firing

This 4 day workshop will take the novice or complete beginner through the basic stages of hand building with clay. By learning how to use coiling and slabbing methods, you will quickly find the confidence to produce a series of works. The first 3 sessions will include several short lectures aiming to introduce you to all aspects of clay technology; contemporary ceramics and raku firing; an information pack will be available to ensure that you remember everything once you go home.
The final day of the workshop will get you doing your very own raku firings; you will be inducted into the correct health and safety procedures for using a raku kiln and also given specifications for making your own home construction.
This immediate technique for firing clay began in Japan during the 16th Century. Work is rapidly fired then removed from the kiln when still glowing hot, plunged into sawdust and then sometimes water. Raku firing produces exciting and vibrant surface qualities, the raw firing produces a black smoky effect and a range of glazes produce anything from white crackles and turquoises to copper rainbow lustre.
This exciting new opportunity takes place in our state of the art Design Centre at Tremough and will give you the chance to familiarise yourself with the facilities and equipment, and see first hand what we have to offer. This four day workshop promises to be a lot of fun and the perfect opportunity to learn enough about working with clay to get you well on your way to producing work at home.
A basic ceramics toolkit is included in with the price of the workshop and clay will be available for you to purchase to take away afterwards.
Cost £295
For further information please call:
Vicki Brotherhood, Design Centre Bureau Service Co-Ordinator on: 01326 370756 or email:- vic.brotherhood@falmouth.ac.uk

Glass coldworking 3 day workshop

Students would need to bring along: permanent maker pen or chinagraph pencil, a container for water eg, a plastic bottle, ppe (plastic apron), mask, craft knife and rubber gloves.
For further information please call:
Vicki Brotherhood, Design Centre Bureau Service Co-Ordinator on: 01326 370756 or email:- vic.brotherhood@falmouth.ac.uk

Ceramic shell moulding

Ceramic shell moulding for glass and bronze casting, 13th,14th,15th,16th and 17th August 2007.
5 day workshop with established metal and glass designer Aron McCartney
A completely hands-on workshop demonstrating the process of casting glass using ceramic shell moulds. This mould technique has long been a popular method in metal casting foundries as it can produce superior castings with excellent definition. The process and material use is economic, producing high quality castings with accurate surface detail, achieving superior surface finish than usual investment moulds. The process applied to glass achieves similar qualities while also allowing otherwise difficult shapes and large casting to be realised efficiently.
Participants model their own designs in wax, learn about the application of ceramic shell to wax work, de-wax the mould and load the mould with glass in a kiln for the casting process to begin. Cold process finishing techniques complete the work.
Complete beginners in glass casting as well as practising studio glass artists wishing to learn a new innovative process which can also be applied to hot glass, will find this course equally beneficial and stimulating.
For further information contact Vicki Brotherhood:
or telephone 01326 370756

Pate de Verre

19th, 20th, and 21st September 2007
3 day glass workshop with celebrated glass artist Gayle Matthias
Pate de Verre is a kiln-formed glass technique utilising finely crushed glass frit, sugar-like in consistency, mixed with water and a binding agent, to form a paste which is applied to the surface of a refractory mould. Layers of paste are built up to form a hollow shell. This process offers controlled placement of colour, intricate patterning and detail.
The Pate de Verre workshop is suitable both for beginners and experienced makers.
For further information contact Vicki Brotherhood:
or telephone 01326 370756

Jan Hein van Stiphout Masterclass

24th,25th,26th and 27th September 2007
An intensive four day workshop with internationally renowned glass artist Jan Hein van Stiphout.
Jan Hein van Stiphout is an autonomous glass artist and instructor in glass techniques based in the Netherlands. He is co owner of the Glasveredelingsatelier company and has formed a collaboration ‘De Maatschap International’with two other artists. His work features in many international museum collections.
A variety of technical processes including: tack and full fusing using Artista, Bullseye, System 96 and float compatible glasses will be taught as well as small scale glass casting from organic objects and egg shell pate de verre techniques.
Besides the practical aspects of the course, JanHein will provide the theory behind kiln firing, annealing and glass compatibility. This workshop is suitable for beginners and the more experienced glass maker wishing to broaden their technical skills.
For further information contact Sally Haseman:
or telephone 01326 214399

Glassblowing Taster Lesson

Glassblowing Taster Lesson:
Tues May 29th
Have a go at glass blowing! You will come away with something you have actually made too. Experience the fun and excitement yourself or buy a lesson as a present.
Look out for more lessons in early 2008 they make a great Christmas gift too!
Booking essential ring 01326 377020
MALCOLM SUTCLIFFE GLASS GALLERY & STUDIO
2 West Street, PENRYN, Cornwall TR10 8EW

Open Studio Malcolm Sutcliffe

May 28th, 30th, 31st & June 1st
11am – 5pm Free admission
Don’t miss this chance to come and watch the exciting skill of the glassmaker at work, Malcolm will be happy to chat and answer questions while he is glass blowing.
Light refreshments will be available and there is an interesting museum and lovely river walks nearby.
MALCOLM SUTCLIFFE GLASS GALLERY & STUDIO
2 West Street, PENRYN, Cornwall TR10 8EW
01326 377020

Barry Marshall-Johnson

Details and photos of Barry Marshall-Johnson's work recently added to main site.

Photographing Ceramics and Glass

Following on from last year’s Photography course,
we have arranged 2 Saturday workshops
May 12th and June 9th 10 am – 4pm
Newquay Adult Education Centre
with photographer Graham Barrett
Cost per day £17.50 (including some printing of images)

This course is for people familiar with the basic functions of their digital camera and who now wish to explore the fundamentals of photography in order to photograph their work to best advantage. Those who attend the second day will need to be competent computer users especially in the area of file management but need not be familiar with either Photoshop or Paintshop Pro.

May 12th Day 1 Photography - will cover composition, lighting and camera techniques; white balance, exposure compensation and
Depth of Field - book by end of April

June 9th Day 2 Digital photo manipulation - will cover basic workspace familiarity and tool options for either Photoshop or Paintshop Pro; file formats for web and print; cropping, cloning and sharpening; adjustment of hue and saturation, brightness and contrast; the addition of borders and frames. Printing and printer settings. – book by end of May

You will need to bring a digital camera, download lead, CD
or memory stick, plus on Day 1, 4 –5 pieces of work to photograph.

It is hoped to do some photography on the beach on Day 1, if weather is fine. You may attend either or both of these workshops. If you just attend the second on manipulating images then you must bring digital images to work on. Booking priority will be given to CCGG members – enrol by dates above, after that the courses will be open to others.
Please enrol directly with Newquay Adult Education, Community Learning Centre, (Old Magistrates Court),Tolcarne Road’ NEWQUAY TR7 2NQ
Tel:01637 874688 aenewquay@cornwall.gov.uk

Kiln and pugmill for sale

Cromartie Kiln Number 564, 6kw, HT3X/Phase 1-69
Very clean, comes with a spare set of elements and has pyrometer
£400 ono

Wenger Pugmill Model 8471, also has an adapted made end so that it pushes out nice sausages for large pots.
£150 ono

Call Cathy Dennis on 07739 701555.

Carolyn Genders

‘Sources of Inspiration’ Workshop
by Carolyn Genders
Saturday 28th April, 10am - 4pm 2007
At Rock Institute Hall, Rock near Wadebridge

There are times when, as an artist, you struggle for inspiration.
Carolyn Genders author of ‘Sources of Inspiration for Ceramics and the applied arts’ has been invited to give a workshop on ideas that will spark the creative imagination. As a professional ceramist for over 20 years and a fellow of the Craft Potters Association, she has over this time, amassed an eclectic collection of photographic images which, along with her sketchbooks form the basis from which she draws inspiration for her ceramics. She will describe how images can be visually abstracted and developed to create other beautiful patterns, designs and forms, suitable for ceramicists, glassmakers and artists alike.
The talk and slideshow will be followed by a visit to the nearby beach at Porthilly and practical participation for members. There will be an end of workshop discussion.
Please bring sketchbooks, drawing and painting implements, cameras and anything from which you draw inspiration and ideas.
Rock is found on OS Landranger map series no.200, grid ref: sw933757
The Hall which has a large car park, is to be found 2/3 of the way down through Rock.
Pass filling station, houses, restaurant, estate agent and shop set back on left then long right hand bend, slow down as the hall entrance is on right.
Please bring a packed lunch for picnicking on the beach (weather permitting) or there are local pubs and café’s within a few minutes drive of the hall.

Cost to members £14 non members £18

Click here to download a booking form

Rosemary Cochrane master class

Salt Glazed Ceramics
Saturday 24th March 10 am - 4 pm 2007
St Cleer Memorial Hall, Liskeard [Grid Ref: SX250684]
As you go down the hill in St Cleer from the junction near church and Market pub, the Holy Well is on the right, St Cleer Junior School is on the right and Memorial Hall is further along on the left
A Talk and practical demonstration day with slides of Rosemary’s work, history of salt glazing, information on slips, clays, textural qualities and throwing techniques suitable for salt firing.
There will be with some hands on opportunities for members, please bring your own tools.
CCGG members £12, non-members £17
If you would like to reserve a place on the Rosemary Cochrane Masterclass
on Saturday 24th March 2007 send a cheque with name and contact email or telephone number with s.a.e. to:
Frances Osborne,
Fraddon Pottery,
Fraddon, St Columb,
TR9 6QU.
Tel: 01726860206

Physicality

On show at Badcocks Gallery, The Strand, Newlyn, Cornwall
An Exhibition by Fine Art Professional Development Diploma Students includes work by CC&GG member Linda Kierdorff
Monday 12th February - Saturday 24th February
Open 10.30 am - 5.30 pm
Private View Thursday 15th 6pm - 8.30pm

Other events being planned...

Masterclass with Caroline Genders in April.

Photographing your work and editing it in PC software - 2 day workshop -- Graham Barrett May/June.

Steve Harrison Kiln Building July.

Details of these events and programme for the rest of the year to follow shortly.

Masterclass from Rosemary Cochrane

( author of Salt-Glaze Ceramics)
Saturday 24th March 10 am - 4 pm
Talk with slides and demonstration of surface textures.
St Cleer Memorial Hall, Liskeard
CCGG members £12, non-members £17
Details to be mailed out shortly to members

Potter Morgan Glass Visit

Saturday 10th February 10.30 am - 1 pm
Talk and Demonstration about Potter Morgan Glass
Laurelin Gallery, near Altarnun
Examples of Andrew and Rebecca's work can be seen here
CCGG members £10 , non members £15

Aberystwyth Ceramics Festival

If you are interested in going to the Aberystwyth Ceramics Festival this summer, dates are 29th June - 1st July,, there may be a chance of some accommodation for one or two if you email Andrew Nicholls
Since it began in 1987 the International Ceramics Festival has grown to become the UK's leading ceramics event. It offers teachers, students, ceramic artists, collectors, working potters and amateurs alike the chance to meet and study the work of distinguished, internationally known craftspersons from Wales, the UK and many countries worldwide.
The Festival attracts about 800 participants to a series of lectures, practical demonstrations and exhibitions over three days. The focus is both practical and inspirational - kilns are built and fired, pots made and demonstrations given. Guest artists also have their own workspace enabling more in depth discussions and exchange of ideas.Over the years the Festival has built up a reputation for featuring some of the world's best known ceramic artists and potters, many new to this country and 2007 will be no exception.
During the festival there are also selling exhibitions, bookstands and a comprehensive display of products from leading pottery manufacturers and suppliers. The aim is to make the weekend as relaxed and accessible as possible.

New work by Wendy Page

I have just added some photos of Wendy Page's work to the website.