A 3 day course with renowned ceramic artist Laurel Keeley. This course allows both experienced potters and beginners exploring clay for the first time to do slab and coil work, as well as throw pots on the wheel. Working with slips and drawn line students can make and fire both small and large-scale work. At Coombe, students have the chance to work directly from nature with our beautiful flower gardens, enchanting stream and stunning South Devon landscape all wonderful sources of inspiration. Laurel is well known for her use of coloured slips and drawn line in stoneware and porcelain clays, with glazes and oxides applied, often enhanced with Gold Lustre. The slab bowls, plates and pots are vehicles for figurative designs of fish and fields, rivers, canals and glimpses of the world through windows. The scale of these ceramics ranges from tiny pieces that fit in the palm of the hand, to coil built forms a metre high. Laurel’s work is informed by the landscape and coast of the South West of England where she lives and most recently has included the study of gardens through painting and ceramics. Coombe’s spectacular location together with Laurel’s expert teaching makes this creative break a wonderful and unique combination of artistic development and relaxation.