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About Tarka Pottery in North Devon

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Revisiting his love of pottery, Andrew came to the

Revisiting his love of pottery, Andrew came to the studio for a Throw, hand-build and glaze day!

After a morning on the pottery wheel, Andrew flipped his pot upside down, cut out the base and moulded a rounded top to make a racing car helmet.

Fit with carefully carved details and doesn't it look neat! And original!

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Flashback to last term's Thursday morning classes

Flashback to last term's Thursday morning classes and one of our lovely students is the fabulous Illustrator @miriamillustrator working her magic with one of our favourite decorative processes, slip decoration. This technique is very well suited for creating pictures and scenes on your play projects and Miriam isn't afraid to experiment with slip colours to create some fabulous illustrations on pottery surfaces.

We love these designs and those very circular mug handles!

Classes will be back for the Autumn term and you can now book if you’d like to join in. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10 – 12 or if you fancy an evening class, we’re running these 7 – 9 m on Wednesday and Thursdays, starting back on 14th September.

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We have some fun family workshops coming up throug

We have some fun family workshops coming up throughout August.

This Friday 12th August, come and make an awesome character mask from your favourite TV show, film or book - it could be an animal, a monster or something from your imagination!

Check out availability on our website, link in bio!

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George and Lynne spent a messy morning making a ne

George and Lynne spent a messy morning making a new batch of coloured slips to get us prepared for the summer.

In case you don't know, we make our decorative slips by mixing ball clay and china clay powders with water - wearing protective masks until the powders are liquid.

We add a variety of coloured stains and oxides to give a rainbow of colours that can be used to transform handbuilt and thrown pots created in the studio.

We love slip decoration and as you can see from the smiles, we love making it too!

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These gorgeous coasters were such a delight to rem

These gorgeous coasters were such a delight to remove from the glaze firing recently.
Paula has been coming to our Thursday morning classes for a couple of terms and she was delighted with these which really show off the fabulous detail of some of the pretty flowers and foliage in her garden.

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Beautiful hand built seed pod dish, created by Car

Beautiful hand built seed pod dish, created by Carolyn during a couple of her weekly classes.
Beautiful glazing that highlights the dip bowls!

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Daisy, Demelza, Scott and Albie came to the studio

Daisy, Demelza, Scott and Albie came to the studio for a family potters wheel experience. We hope you all enjoyed your weekend time out and a bit of time out!
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Gorgeous, and each uniquely designed Jubilee vases

Gorgeous, and each uniquely designed Jubilee vases and pencil pots by the children at Bishops Tawton Primary school!

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It was a pleasure to welcome Pippa, Sharon and the

It was a pleasure to welcome Pippa, Sharon and their mum, Margaret, to the studio recently. It was Margaret’s birthday treat, she’d always wanted to have a go on the wheel and she did just that!

The morning was a Pottery Throwdown with plenty of time and lots of balls of clay to play with on the wheel.

After a picnic lunch outside in the sunshine, enjoying the views, Pippa and Sharon went back to throwing, while Margaret experimented rolling textures into clay and created a pretty little patterned bowl with a foot!

The final stage of the day was to choose pots to glaze and everyone wanted to have a go at flicking and splattering glazes onto their pots. The weather was ideal, so they spent the final part of their pottery day creating abstract patterns on their pots in the sunshine.

Looking forward to seeing these all glazed soon!

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A lovely sgraffito fish plate designed and beautif

A lovely sgraffito fish plate designed and beautifully created by Caroline from our Friday morning adult pottery classes.

Caroline’s amazing illustrative talent is wonderfully suited to the traditional pottery technique of sgraffito - scratching lines through layers of coloured slip, to create an image.

The plate was formed by hand with a slab of clay, using a @hartleyandnoble mould.

We’re all Looking forward to seeing Caroline’s next project fired!

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Carly had a fabulous day in the studio, throwing p

Carly had a fabulous day in the studio, throwing pots on the wheel and glazing.

She absolutely loved splattering coloured glazes onto her chosen pots and we're delighted with the results.

They're off in the post and on the way to her - we hope she loves them too!

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There is always a lot of fun during our Thursday m

There is always a lot of fun during our Thursday morning pottery classes. Alongside throwing, a lot of the students create individual and amazing hand-built projects.

Lorna created a lovely clock, based on the family pet, Elaine used grasses and seed heads impressed into slabs to construct this pretty planter. Sarah made this awesome house teapot, with a roof lid, spout and handle. The process was quite technical and we weren’t sure if the teapot would make it through to firing! Slab work isn’t always easy, but everyone was delighted with the results.

We’ll be offering a clock workshop soon, where you can make a clock of your own design - details to follow soon.

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