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	South Wales Potters


	Events Diary 2010

April (date to be fixed.)

May 8th

July 25th

June13th

Oct.15th - 17th

Visit to the new Ceramics Gallery of theV&A Museum.

Demonstration / Workshop Day at Lansdown Pottery.

Kiln Building Day at Gwehelog, Usk

Wonastow Social and Activity Day.

Autumn Ceramica with David Frith and Neil MacDonell.


	Other events being planned - More information later.

Building a new kiln at Eddie Daughntons new home.

Hand building Workshop.


	*For more information please refer to Shards and the Shards Update*


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	Demonstration and Workshop Day Sat May 8th 2010 at Landsdown Pottery, Stroud SWP members John & Penny West have offered to host an event at their Stroud workshop, housed in historic former college buildings. STEVE MILLS has agreed to share his considerable throwing skills with fellow members, demonstrating ‘capping’, useful for throwing larger pots easily. JOHN WEST will show us how he achieves his altered thrown vessels For hand builders we are fortunate to have JITKA PALMER showing us how she creates her imaginatively decorated figurative work.Her work can be seen on: www.studiopottery.co.uk Steve and John’s excellent work can be viewed in the Members’ Gallery on this website. All three demonstrators will provide hans on guidance in the workshop sessions. The work and ethos of Lansdown Pottery can be seen at: www.lansdownpottery.co.uk


				Vessel by Steve Mills



			Large vessel by Jitka Palmer


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Don’t Forget !

Wonastow Social Day Sunday June 13th

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Hot happenings at the last Wonastow Social.

Chris and Mair Rossiter invite us once again to use the lovely location of Little Wonastow Farm to enjoy each others company and a variety of activities.

Learn how to make an extruder from a mastic gun.
Hand building using extruded material.
‘Naked Raku’

If you need another application form contact Mair.

Tel.01600 740424 email mair@saranna.demon.co.uk

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Kiln Building/Firing Day (Sunday July 25^th, 2010)

at Wainfield Farm, Wainfield Lane Gwehelog, Usk

Over the weekend of July 24/25 we are planning to build and wood-fire a brick kiln in a field adjacent to Steve Hoselitz’s home near Usk. The kiln will be semi-permanent – we hope to use it many times over the coming years.

It will have a pot chamber of about 7 cu ft and those who join in the fun can bring three – perhaps even four – pots each. We will have a system to ensure that everyone who takes part gets roughly an equal share of the kiln space. We will make this a light-salt firing, which can give light coloured pots some lovely flame painting on the outside. So light-coloured, buff stoneware clays will be better than darker ones. (Pots you bring need to have been bisque fired.)

More details in Shards

Application form for SWP Autumn Ceramica:


	Autumn Ceramica 15th - 17th of Oct. 2010 at Ty Morwydd, Abergavenny *Don’t miss South Wales Potter’s exciting bienniel event !* This year’s demonstrators will be David Frith and Neil MacDonell. *David Frith* has a wide range of making processes and techniques particularly wheel based including paddling, faceting, extruding and manipulation. *Further examples of his work can be viewed on the internet at: :* www.brookhousepottery.co.uk *Neil MacDonell* has a particular interest in the creation of work in the form of masks, faces windows, suns, hearts and double faced forms including associated impressed decoration. His work is usually for wall hanging and finished with cobalt, copper and iron oxides under/over glaze. *Further examples of his work can be viewed on the internet at::* www.macdonell-ceramics.co.uk


				Pot by David Frith



			Masks by Neil MacDonell

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