Julie will be tking part in the Hopeful & Glorious Winter Fair Online from 20th -22nd November. Julie is offering 10% off both her web and etsy shops with the code WINTER
Courses for 2020
So if you fancy having a go, being creative or just getting out the house do drop me an email I will be taking a £50 deposit on courses and £20 deposit on Saturday classes. Classes are restricted to 3 at the moment or 4 if you are a family bubble if that makes sense.
So I am launching my new workshops at long last they were to be launched at Easter but hey ho but we are here and hopefully it is safe to venture out in Sept.
All workshops will be at my studios within our dedicated teaching workshop at Fired Up North Studios on Lomeshaye Business Village, Junction 12 off the M65 we are down the side of Giddy Kippers we also have free parking.
We will practice Covid safe working practices with details collected, anti bac stations, screens will be in place and limited numbers until further notice.
Sept
6 week Hand building with stoneware course – starting 8th Sept Tuesday evenings 7-9
6 week Playing with Porcelain workshops starting – starting 10th Sept Thursday 7-9pm
Sat 5th Sept Mini Hare workshop 1-4pm
Sat 19th Sept Slab built Vessels 1-4pm
October
Sat 3rd Oct Porcelain t lights 1-4pm
Sat 17th Oct Porcelain tiles 1-4pm
November
Sat 14th Nov Christmas polar bears 1-4pm
Sat 21st Nov Christmas Penguin workshop1-4pm
December
Sat 5th Dec Porcelain decorations 1-4pm
Julie is an experienced teacher in ceramics with a degree in Design Craft & an MA in Ceramics. She has taught since graduating in 1998 in various settings from art galleries to a disused quarry, all ages and abilities.
You will be taught in a fully equipped working ceramics/studio teaching space.
Bring an apron, enthusiasm and anything that you would like to use to impress including leaves, fabric, flowers etc for the porcelain workshops and you will be able to achieve with step by step tuition some amazing creations. Go on have a go and get creative. Refreshments offered on arrival whilst going through housekeeping & health & safety for each workshop.
Maximum 4 per workshop age 16 +
Saturday sessions £55, 6 wk courses £150 per person.
All classes include qualified tuition, basic materials, use of tools, refreshments.
To book email me on info@juliemiles.co.uk
6 week Hand building with stoneware course – starting 8th Sept Tuesday evenings 7-9
Details
Ist week will be health and safety basic clay introduction and slab building techniques you will be should basic skills to help you create something you would like to make and taught how to finish your work without the need to sand works after firing.
2nd week will be thumb and coiling techniques.
3rd week will be decorative techniques to embellish your creations
4th and 5th weeks you will be guided by me to create your own collection of works be it a series of vessels, a collection of creatures etc you are only limited by your own imagination.
The 6th and final week we will be decorating and glazing your collection for its final firing to be collected 2 weeks later.
6 week Playing with Porcelain course – starting 10th Sept Thursday evenings 7-9
Ist week will be health and safety basic clay introduction and slab techniques to create impressed tiles using found objects and materials such as leaves, flowers etc you will be shown basic skills to help you create and taught how to finish your work without the need to sand works after firing.
2nd week will be geared to working on your own ideas using the slab techniques to create T light holder, vases etc exploiting the properties of the porcelain or maybe bird houses, jewellery boxes to name but a few ideas.
3rd week you will be taught a series of decorative techniques to embellish your creations
4th and 5th weeks you will be guided by me to create your own collection of works be it jewelley, vases, vessels, etc maybe a series of presents for Christmas etc. The 6th and final week we will be decorating and glazing your collection for its final firing to be collected 2 weeks later.
available in my etsy shop
https://etsy.me/2VECfBU
Work available in my studio sale
30th Jan – 16th Feb
New Workshop Dates.
Porcelain Tiles Workshops
Tiles impressed natural objects in porcelain using natural material such as grasses, flowers and leaves.
You will create a set of four tiles that can be used as coasters or
wall plaques, door numbers etc using colour and oxide to bring them to
life. Participants will learn the basic skills involved in creating clay
tiles. We will be using a porcelain clay suitable for displaying
outdoors once fired. Creating decoration with collected natural
materials ie grasses, seed heads, flowers and leaves to create patterns
and pictures on the surface. We will introduce a splash of colour using
underglaze and oxides to pick up the details on the surfaces once fired.
Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs
Dates for 2019
Prices include materials and firing £45 Thurs 28th November 1pm -3.30pm or 6.30-9pm Thurs 5th December 1pm -3.30pm or 6.30-9pm
Porcelain tea light holders
Create your own tea light holders
using slab building techniques with porcelain. In this 2 & ½ hr
workshop you will learn techniques on how to handle the porcelain,
rolling out techniques and forming and joining the porcelain, impressing
and incising using textures to exploit its beautiful translucent
qualities to create your very own tea light holder. At the end of the
workshop you will have created at least one porcelain tea light holder
to be fired. Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs
Dates for 2019
Price includes materials and firing £45 Saturday 23rd November 1pm -3.30pm Sunday 1st December 1pm -3.30pm Wednesday 4th Dec 6.30-9pm Wednesday 11th Dec 6.30-9pm
Christmas decorations in Porcelain
Come and make
your own personalised Christmas tags, tree decorations. Learn how to
roll out porcelain to 2mm thick, how to handle the material, impressing
and incising techniques using textures to exploit its beautiful
translucent qualities. You can leave your creations white or using
underglazes to print or stain the imprints to coordinate your Christmas
presents. Julie is an experienced teacher in ceramics with a degree in
Design Craft & an MA in Ceramics. She has taught since graduating in
1998 in various settings from art galleries to a disused quarry, all
ages and abilities. Bring an apron, enthusiasm and anything that you
would like to use to impress including leaves, fabric, flowers etc and
you will be able to achieve with step by step tuition some amazing
creations. Go on have a go and get creative. Refreshments offered on
arrival whilst going through housekeeping & health & safety for
each workshop. Maximum 6 per workshop age 16 + duration 2 ½ hrs
Dates for 2019
Prices include materials and firing £45 Sunday 8th Dec 1.30-4pm
All welcome here Fired Up North Studios, Unit 25, Lomeshaye Village, Turner Road, Nelson, BB9 7DR
For now check out https://www.juliemiles.co.uk/shop/ if you are interested in buying work………
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