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The Octagon Gallery - showcasing the best hand-made pottery, gardening tools, jewellery and a range of British crafts.
 
09 February 2010
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The Octagon

The Octagon

The Octagon is the perfect place to buy a unique, top quality, hand-made gift...

Mugs • Jugs • Plates • Bowls • Omelette jugs • Vases • Lasagne dishes • Pasta bowls • Oven dishes Candles • Christmas cards • Hats & scarves • Bags • Gardening tools by Sneerboer and others • Aprons & accessories • Jewellery • Books • Willow baskets • Mohair socks • Bird boxes • and more!


New ceramics, paintings and furniture from some excellent makers and artists from Britain and Japan.


With new work by Amy Cooper • Jack Doherty • Jim & Dominique Keeling • Delfina Podda • Kudo Takumi • John Wheeldon • Mary Wondrausch • Judith Yarrow • Alistair Young


Plus work by Svend Bayer • Bell Pottery • Charles Bound • Clive Bowen • Emmanuel Cooper • David Garland • Richard Godfrey • Mark Griffiths • Lisa Hammond • John Jelfs • John Leach • Andrew McGarva • Laurence McGowan • Phil Rogers • Winchcombe Pottery.




GUEST POTTERS OF THE MONTH:


Guest Potter of the Month - Antje Ernestus

Antje
Antje Ernestus

Starting Date: 01/03/2010

Dates: 1st - 31st March

Times: Mon - Fri 9am to 5pm, Saturdays 10am to 4pm, Sundays - Closed

Antje
Antje Ernestus

Antje makes individual studio pots, mostly in porcelain, with fluid celadon and ash glazes and copper red highlights. Form is kept simple and strong, often slightly asymmetrical. Both thrown and hand built with subtle finger markings and soft texturing, the work possesses a rich and tactile quality.


Guest Potter of the Month - Nigel Edmondson

Nigel
Nigel Edmondson

Starting Date: 01/04/2010

Dates: 1st -30th April

Times: Mon - Fri 9am to 5pm, Saturdays 10am to 4pm, Sundays 11am to 4pm

Nigel
Nigel Edmondson

Nigel's show at The Octagon features new work continuing his exploration of multiple and modular planters with some larger scale work particularly for a garden setting. Surfaces are richly textured and much of the work incorporates landscape-based abstraction that responds to the Lakeland Fells that lie on his doorstep.



 

MAJOR POTTERY EXHIBITIONS:


Love Pots, Love Food Major Exhibition


Lisa Hammond

Starting Date: 24/04/2010

Dates: Saturday 24th April to Sunday 30th May

Times: Mon - Fri 9am to 5pm, Saturdays 10am to 4pm, Sundays 11am to 4pm


Dominique and Jim Keeling

To accompany our Love Pots, Love Food workshop, we will be exhibiting a range of work by some of the UK's leading tableware makers

Exhibitors include * Adrienne Baba * Clive Bowen * Kim Donaldson *Jill Fanshawe Kato * David Garland * Lisa Hammond * Tim Hurn * John Jelfs * Adam Keeling * Jim & Dominique Keeling * Nigel Lambert * Toff Milway * Janice Tchalenko.....and more

Please contact us for more information - tel 01608 684416



 

WORKSHOPS:


Love Pots Love Food - A Celebration of Tableware


Toff Milway

Starting Date: 24/04/2010

Dates: Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th April 2010

Times: Weekend Workshop


Toff Milway

Two day Weekend Workshop

Building on the successes of 2008 and 2009, the 2010 Whichford event will be another two day workshop with an exciting mix of talks, demonstrations, masterclasses and a competition with guest potters Clive Bowen, Jill Fanshawe Kato, Adam Keeling, Jim Keeling, Nigel Lambert, Toff Milway and Janice Tchalenko. The new updraft wood-fired earthenware kiln is already under construction, and this will be fired and opened over the course of the weekend.

New this year will be a forum on the future of hand-made pottery in Great Britain which will hopefully give everyone a lot to think about, and a “Potters’ Revel and Feast” on the Saturday evening. This will be a real celebration of “Love Pots Love Food” and will include a demonstration by potter-chef Adrienne Baba. For once, the products of the demonstration – canapés – can be eaten by the viewers!

The weekend will be fun and informative and a great opportunity to learn from some of the most talked about potters in the ceramics world.

For the full timetable, see below. Some sessions will be concurrent, but all will be repeated over the course of the weekend, so no one need miss anything.

Weekend workshop costs £125 (£100 CPA members) This cost includes all activities, lunch, tea/coffee and home-made cakes on Saturday and Sunday. The Potters Revel supper on Saturday evening costs £12. (Please bring your own bottle)

Draft Schedule

Saturday 24th April

8.15 AM Arrive for registration, coffee, exhibition preview

Welcome to Love Pots Love Food by Jim Keeling

Introduction to Tableware: “DESIGNING POTS FOR FOOD.” Toff Milway

MASTERCLASS: "PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE". Clive Bowen

BREAK for coffee & biscuits

MASTERCLASS: "STRETCH SUSHI PLATES AND ROCK BOWLS". Jill Fanshawe Kato

Firing the new earthenware wood kiln – the early stages. Adam Keeling

WALK & TALK around exhibition with Toff Milway

LUNCH

TALK: TITLE TBC. Janice Tchalenko

MASTERCLASS: "TRADITION & INNOVATION IN DESIGN – Throwing techniques" Jim Keeling

WALK & TALK around exhibition with Clive Bowen

Informal session “HOME-MADE KILN FURNITURE – saggars, props and shelves”. Adam Keeling and Clive Bowen

BREAK for tea & home-made cakes

TALK: "POSSET POT OR PASTA DISH. What is the future for a domestic ware potter?”. Nigel Lambert

Firing the new earthenware wood kiln - finishing up with Adam Keeling

FORUM: “Is THERE A FUTURE FOR HAND-MADE TABLEWARE?” Chaired by Jim Keeling with guests Janice Tchalenko, Kathy Niblet and the other guest potters

Meet the Potters at the Exhibition in the Octagon

Evening: POTTERS REVEL & FEAST

DEMONSTRATION: “Making Canapes” – Adrienne Baba

Sunday 25th April

MASTERCLASS: “THROWING AND ASSEMBLING THE FISH-RIMMED DISH”. Toff Milway

TALK: "JAPANESE POTTERY FOR FOOD AND DRINK". Jill Fanshawe Kato

WALK & TALK around exhibition with Nigel Lambert

BREAK for coffee & biscuits

MASTERCLASS: "SHAPING THE WAY WE EAT." Thrown and Altered tableware. Nigel Lambert

TALK: “POTS AND FOOD”. Clive Bowen

WALK & TALK around exhibition with Janice Tchalenko

LUNCH

TALK: "TRADITION AS A SOURCE OF DESIGN FOR FLOWERPOTS" . Jim Keeling

MASTERCLASS: THROWN HANDLES AND EUROPEAN TABLEWARE TECHNIQUES". Adam Keeling

BREAK for tea & home-made cakes

KILN OPENING: wood kiln fired yesterday with Clive Bowen, Adam Keeling, Jim Keeling and David Garland.

Close & Farewell

Please note: This above is a draft timetable. The final running order may differ slightly. All events will be repeated over the course of the weekend, so no one need miss anything.

Please contact us for more information or to book your place - tel 01608 684416




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Love Pots, Love Food

Toff Milway

Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th April

Building on the success of the last two years' events, we are planning another exciting weekend workshop and exhibition, themed around pots for the kitchen and table.

Demonstrators already booked include Clive Bowen, Jill Fanshawe Kato, Nigel Lambert, Toff Milway and Janice Tchalenko.

Exhibitors include all the above, pluse Adrienne Baba, David Garland, Lisa Hammond, Tim Hurn, John Jelfs, Adam Keeling and Jim and Dominique Keeling


The weekend will be fun and enjoyable, with masterclasses, kiln firings/openings, lectures and discussions.

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