Brown Clay, White Slip, Transparent Glaze = Spring Flowers!
Registration
$425.00
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Tim Worthington
Tuesdays, March 25 – May 6, 2025
1:00pm – 4:00pm
This workshop will explore the many combinations of slips and transparent coloured glazes on a 3D form.
The attention will be on slip decorating techniques, inlay, drawing, brushing, sponging and stencils, rather than being bogged down with object creation.
The workshop is open to either thrown or hand built forms with a number of 2D templates available for assembling a 3D object. As this will be a “spring” session, the vase form will be our goal. With this selected subject, we can focus on slip decoration right away.
This workshop is comprised of 7 working sessions (3hrs) PLUS one final pick-up day (1hr). We will be using red stoneware clay.
Students should bring:
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- Apron
- Hand towel
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Tim Worthington
Tim Worthington shares his studio in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, with ceramics artist, Pam Birdsall. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Ceramics from Ohio Northern University, and a Master in Fine Arts in Ceramics from NSCAD University, in Halifax, NS (1976). While at NSCAD he gained perspective, seeing and studying pottery across cultures, from Neolithic times to the present. He has been shaped by early English slipware and the tradition of the commemorative plate, and by the strong forms and patterns of Eastern ceramics. The book, How To Wrap 5 Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging, was a major influence in his appreciation of form and function. The Arts and Crafts movement, and its idea that function does not preclude beauty, has also deeply informed his work.
Using a local earthenware clay, and following some of his early influences, Tim began decorating exclusively with coloured clay slips and transparent glazes. He notes that slipware demands that you decorate the pottery before it has been fired, so there is a wonderful fluidity to the process that offers endless options for truly unique patterns.
To quote Tim’s inspiring message about ceramics, “To realize an idea in a three-dimensional object is a kind of magic.”