Intro to Porcelain: Specialty Hand Building
Adult Classes | Available
Porcelain is a versatile white clay which allows you to create finely detailed, translucent pieces and is perfect for both throwing and hand building. Students will be guided through creating their own unique piece of porcelain art using hand-built methods. You’ll get plenty of hands on attention as you create, glaze and apply final surface details. Previous experience in ceramics will be needed for this class.
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.