Handbuilt Pottery Wall Planters

Step into the creative rhythm of a working pottery studio and spend time handbuilding your own ceramic wall vessel with artist Melissa. Surrounded by shelves of handmade work, tools, glazes, and the quiet hum of the studio, you'll learn the techniques used to shape, decorate, and assemble your own unique hanging planter in clay.

During this workshop, Melissa will guide you through handbuilding methods suitable for beginners through to more experienced makers. You'll explore form, texture, attachment techniques, and decorative surface details while creating a wall piece designed to hold dried flowers, herbs, small plants, incense, or treasured objects.

Each participant will receive a wheel-thrown vessel form at leather-hard stage to incorporate into their design, allowing you to combine handbuilt sculptural elements with a professionally thrown functional form. You'll then build around and embellish your planter using a selection of sprigs, textures, and decorative techniques. From botanical and ocean-inspired designs to whimsical character pieces, there will be plenty of room to create something uniquely your own.

Surface decoration, sprigs, carving, stamping, sculptural additions, and applied details can all be explored throughout the session.

We will work with a pale stoneware clay, and you'll choose from a range of studio glaze colours for Melissa to glaze your piece in after its first firing.