Nature Inspired: Specialty Hand Building
Adult Classes | Available
Nature creates immeasurable inspiration for this class in creative hand building. You’ll get plenty of hands on attention as I guide you through creating your own unique piece of art. Using hand-built methods, you’ll design, build, glaze and apply final surface details through the 4-week process. Bring your own ideas and inspiration to class. Experience in ceramics will be needed for this class, and beginning throwing skills will allow you more creative options. Finished pieces can be food safe depending on the glazes you choose.
Susan Reynolds
Growing up with midwestern roots, Susan Reynolds remembers being surrounded by the influence of the Arts & Crafts movement. From art to architecture, color to design, the impressions stayed with her and ultimately showed up in what she collected and created. Brief summers lakeside in northern Wisconsin provided the connections to nature that are revealed in her current work.
Reynolds’ work is primarily wheel-thrown but recently she branched out into hand-building. She begins with perfectly symmetrical pieces that provide the blank canvas on which to work. The rims, edges and surfaces are then altered with tools and brushes but mostly, with her hands. The “manipulated edge” pieces end up like her; imperfectly perfect.
Reynolds received a BS in Art at UW Madison but spent 25 years in e-Commerce. After leaving the corporate world in 2019 she rediscovered her love of clay. She opened Longford Road Ceramics in 2020 as a full-time working artist.