Hand Building Exploration
Adult Classes | Available
Escape from the hustle & bustle and unleash your creativity within this therapeutic and tactile medium! Work at your own pace as we explore the 3 fundamentals of hand building clay: pinching, coil and slab building. You'll learn how to express your ideas through hand building a variety of projects. One on one guidance will be provided for beginners, as well as those with more experience. Projects will be fired and glazed with food safe glazes.
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.