10:00 - 16:00

Level: Beginner and up

Join Chloe for a creative ceramic workshop where you’ll design and handcraft a coastal-inspired vase — adorned with seashell prints, cast 3D shells, and delicate hangers for adding pearls and trinkets. Perfect for any skill level, your vase will be built using traditional ceramic techniques, allowing you to explore form, texture, and surface decoration. You’ll press real shell patterns into the clay, cast and attach sculpted shell forms, and learn how to incorporate hanging elements that give your piece a beautifully tactile and decorative finish. Once your vase is complete, you’ll select from a range of glazes that capture the natural colours of shells. These glazes will enhance every texture, curve, and detail of your design.

After your workshop, Chloe will dry, glaze, and fire your vase — a process that takes around 4-5 weeks. When finished, your piece will be returned to Micklems for you to collect and treasure, ready to display fresh flowers in!

Skills and techniques:

• Pinch pots

• Coiling

• Using underglazes

• 3D casting

Materials:

Materials will be provided by the tutor. The cost of these is £17 which includes the clay, glazes, glazing and firing plus pearl beads, payable to the tutor during the course.

What to bring:

• Apron

• Old clothes

• Packed lunch 

Included on the day:

• Any other materials not specified for student to bring/pay for on the day

• Expert tuition

• 1 to 1 guidance

• Detailed demonstrations

• A selection of tea, freshly brewed coffee, biscuits and delicious cakes. If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies, please feel free to bring along your own provisions/milk alternatives etc.

And of course you take your wonderful creations from the day. If you share any photographs of your day here and/or your finished work, we’d love to see them so please tag us @micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops or use the hashtag #micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops.

Terms - Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you can no longer attend, we are unable to offer a refund or transfer you to another workshop. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us using the contact page on the Micklems Farm website. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to insufficient places sold and you will be refunded the full amount paid.

Number of students: 10