With over thirtyfive years potting experience, the demonstrations I can offer are wide ranging, encompassing: Neolithic pottery, Bronze-Age pottery, Iron-Age pottery, Roman pottery , Anglo-Saxon pottery, Medieval pottery. If required workshops can be presented in appropriate period costume for a full living history effect.
The pottery techniques I can demonstrate include:
- Clay prospecting & preparation
- Tool and ceramic equipment making
- Kiln building and firing
- Prehistoric hand and coil making
- Prehistoric open firing
- Roman wheel thrown pottery
- Roman Samian & Barbotine pottery
- Roman mould made ceramics
- Early Anglo-Saxon handmade pottery
- Late Saxon & Medieval wheel throwing
- and much more
Demonstrations can be tailored to any age group and can be presented as an illustrated lecture, for those with a more academic level of interest or those working towards a formal qualification. Sessions can consist of a mixture of demonstration and hands-on workshop. These can be presented to a single group booked in for the full session or can be presented to passing crowds or drop in groups as part of a larger event. Ancient pottery workshops are ideal for living history and heritage events but have been preesnted very successfully at country fairs and charity events.
I have delivered demonstrations and workshops covering other time periods and cultures including; Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, African, Oriental, Post Mediaeval British pottery and modern studio pottery.
