Join Watts Potter Michelle Shields for a creative and inspiring hands-on pottery session, using air drying clay to create a charming ceramic gingerbread-style house designed to hold a tealight candle and give off a festive glow. A delightful addition to your Christmas decorations - or a sweet handmade gift for someone special.
Explore a variety of exciting techniques and skills. In one session make your own festive ceramic piece using air drying clay to display in your home or give as a special gift.
Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, these sessions are a great opportunity to experiment, create, and refine your skills in a welcoming and sociable studio setting.
Meet the Artist
Michelle Shields is a ceramicist whose practice explores the intersection of materiality, machines and the possibilities that emerge when digital and traditional making converge. Driven by curiosity and experimentation, she combines hand-building, throwing, 3D printing and robotic processes with traditional ceramic techniques, continually testing materials through making and remaking.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, Michelle has exhibited internationally, including at the European Ceramic Context in Bornholm, Denmark, and her work is held in public and private collections. During a residency at The Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford, she explored the dialogue between digital processes and traditional ceramics through the museum’s collection of Harvest Jugs.
Alongside her digital practice, Michelle is developing a wood-fired rocket kiln to explore terracotta slipware with sustainable approaches to firing. Her work embraces technology as a way to extend the possibilities of clay, connecting innovation, craft and our relationship with the natural world.
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