Announcing London Potters Annual Makers Award 2024: As part of LP’s commitment to Education and Training, we are pleased to announce the 2024 Annual Makers Award details. The award is open to Members of London Potters and applicants must be a member by the date of the application submission. The deadline for applications will be 31st August 2024.
This is a course delivered virtually over two sessions. Session one will be instructional and lecture based. In the time between the two sessions, Yeshen will offer you a challenge to shoot your own work. During session two you will be encouraged to share your photos and discuss/receive constructive feedback from Yeshen.
Join the London Potters members social on the afternoon of the 13th July on a roof terrace in a central London location for networking. You can bring a piece of your work for discussion if you want to and simply enjoy spending time with the pottery tribe!
This workshop is the sought after two day glaze workshop by Linda Bloomfield. There are two elements of this workshop: (i) glaze materials lecture and (ii) practical glaze making and discussion. On day 1, Linda will demonstrate glaze making, after which you will be mixing your chosen glazes and then glazing your test tiles.
Our honorary ambassador Kate Malone MBE is inviting 30 London Potters members to have a picnic at Kent farmhouse to on the 17th August. During the picnic, Kate would like attendees to take part in a critical analysis of work with each other. This is intended to be helpful for our own development from being open to listen to other’s perspectives on our work.
Join Mayco’s Todd Hickerson for a hands-on ceramic glaze demonstration on the 15th September.
Todd will be showing off Mayco’s newest Stoneware glazes and Engobes, highlighting performance characteristics, tips for use, and popular glaze combinations in cone 6 and cone 10 firing temperatures.
London Potters are organising a unique opportunity to learn how to fire your own work in an anagama style wood kiln at the Oxford University Kilns, under the instruction of researcher and expert kiln-firer Dr Robin Wilson. Twelve London Potters members will make up the firing team and will learn to load, and fire the kiln over five days 18th – 22nd September (residential), and unload the kiln a week later on the 29th September.
Open to all members and non members
Visit the Oxford Kilns for the London Potters woodfiring kiln opening.
You will see the firing team open the kiln and bring the pots out. You will hear about the Oxford Kilns site from Dr Robin Wilson and the London Potters firing team will share information on their experience, examine the results and learnings.
Free. Ticket booking is needed due to venue capacity. This is the London Potters Annual General Meeting. All members are invited and attendance is for members only. We have endeavored to make this an informative and enjoyable networking event for our members. In addition to the formal proceedings, the event includes a keynote speaker, demonstration […]
Ikebana Exhibition - Collaboration between London Potters and Sogetsu School of Ikebana London Branch (SSILB)
After the successful collaboration last year, we are pleased to announce the second collaboration event with SSILB.
Fifteen London Potters members will have an opportunity to pair up with a SSILB member to explore and make a container for an arrangement during August/September and then exhibit their arrangement on the 19th October 2024.
This is the Sogetsu School of Ikebana London Branch's annual exhibition which is open to the public. All London Potters members and non members are welcome to visit the exhibition and learn about the art of Sogetsu Ikebana, see how London Potters members vessels are used as part of the display.
This year, our honorary President Rich Miller will also be taking part as an exhibitor in collaboration with a SSILB member.
This year the London Potters Annual Members Exhibition will showcase work from 120 of our members. The exhibition will take place at the Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT. This ticket is for the Private View which will take place on Wednesday 27th November 2024, 6pm – 8pm. Tickets are free to members.
Is intangible knowledge transferable? How can we make embodied knowledge accessible to all? In the crafts these questions are of paramount concern as we slip from the age of Human Intelligence ‘HI’ into the age of Artificial Intelligence ‘AI’.
In this one hour session for London Potters members Patricia van den Akker, creative business adviser and author of the new book Teaching Your Creative Workshops in Person and Online, will take you through the key steps to start teaching and sharing your creative skills.
Following our successful social drinks in 2024, the London Potters social volunteers have organised this next event for us to network and talk over a drink.
In this workshop you will be taught by the talented Jack Durling to create your very own ceramic animal sculpture. Using a combination of hollow forming and modelling sculptural techniques such as coiling, slab building and the use of armatures, supports and templates. As well as running through some basic drawing exercises and maquette making.
Applications close 31st August 2025 Annoucing London Potters Annual Makers Award 2025 PLEASE EMAIL AMA@LONDONPOTTERS.COM FOR APPLICATION FORM As part of LP’s commitment to Education and Training, we are pleased to announce th 2025 Annual Makers Award details. The award is open to Members of London Potters and applicants must be a member by the […]
This is a course delivered virtually over two sessions. Session one will be instructional and lecture based. In the time between the two sessions, Yeshen will offer you a challenge to shoot your own work. During session two you will be encouraged to share your photos and discuss/receive constructive feedback from Yeshen.
This workshop is the sought after two day glaze workshop by Linda Bloomfield. There are two elements of this workshop: (i) glaze materials lecture and (ii) practical glaze making and discussion. On day 1, Linda will demonstrate glaze making, after which you will be mixing your chosen glazes and then glazing your test tiles.
Join Mayco’s Todd Hickerson for a hands-on ceramic glaze demonstration on the 5th of October.
Todd will be showing off Mayco’s newest Stoneware glazes and Engobes, highlighting performance characteristics, tips for use, and popular glaze combinations in cone 6 (1240C) and cone 10 (1300C) firing temperatures.
This is the London Potters Annual General Meeting. All members are invited and attendance is for members only. We have endeavored to make this an informative and enjoyable networking event for our members. In addition to the formal proceedings, the event includes a keynote speaker, demonstration and social drinks.
This year the London Potters Annual Members Exhibition will showcase work from 120 of our members. The exhibition will take place at the Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT.
Ikebana Exhibition - Collaboration between London Potters and Sogetsu School of Ikebana London Branch (SSILB)
After the successful collaboration last year, we are pleased to announce the second collaboration event with SSILB.
Twelve London Potters members will have an opportunity to pair up with a SSILB member to explore and make a container for an arrangement during September/October and then exhibit on the 01st November 2025.
Learn and experiment mono-printing and screen-printing techniques on clay with Donna Bloye, winner of The Great Pottery Throw Down 2024.
After receiving a BA Hons in Ceramics from the University of the West of England in 2001 and after several years working as a Secondary Art teacher, Donna made the decision to return to her first passion; clay. In 2023 I opened Oto Pottery Studio.