KESTLE BARTON
Summer Clay Workshops
2019
Working with groups from Parkview and Holyfield Farm Project in the mornings, and members of the public in the afternoons, I ran four sessions where we collected, processed, made and pit fired objects in clay.
Summer Clay Workshops
2019
Working with groups from Parkview and Holyfield Farm Project in the mornings, and members of the public in the afternoons, I ran four sessions where we collected, processed, made and pit fired objects in clay.
Participants learnt how to recognise clay as a raw material and the geological processes that form it. The Lizard geology forms a distinct clay called Gabbro, which was used throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages.
We went on a field trip to collect some samples of raw clay, which we processed by hand into a workable clay body. Using coil building techniques everyone made their own pots and sculptures, which dried out ready to be pit-fired.
The pieces were wrapped in locally collected seaweed and placed on the fire which was kept alight overnight.
