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Pottery Workshops/ School & Community Murals

I love the charm & spontaneity of children's drawings. It's great to capture these precious fleeting moments in time into a more permanent medium like clay tiles or painted murals. It is also a great boost to the children's confidence as it shows that other people value what they can do.

The process of working with others to create something much bigger and better then they could do alone is also a very enjoyable and valuable experience.
letter to Roma from Welton School
Making a crocodile
Year 2 pupil making a crocodile for school mural
rainforest
Australian Rainforest mural made by the children of Fieldplace First School , Worthing
Creation mural
The Creation mural made by the children of Greystoke School, Cumbria
(go to Detail 1 ) (go to Detail 2)

"...This was a project involving all the pupils and the finished effect is outstanding. All the children are so pleased to see their own work becoming a permanent fixture within the school..."


Michael Kidd, Headteacher, Petterill Bank Primary School, Carlisle

Mural at Petterill Bank Primary School, Carlisle


cutting clay tiles

modelling

painting a mural

making tiles

"GOING GREEK AT GREYSTOKE"


Roma with Greystoke School pupils at the end of a day's workshop making Greek pottery
(photo: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald)

Details from other completed school ceramic murals below:


Detail from Robert Ferguson School


detail from Milburn mural

detail from Temple Sowerby School
Temple Sowerby School 2000AD; Eden Arts Millennium Tile Project

With my help, the children from the following schools have designed, made and glazed their own tiles to create ceramic murals which are uniquely relevant to them:

  • Hunsonby Community Centre, ceramic mural
  • Temple Sowerby, tiled garden wall and ceramic mural
  • Beckside Centre, birdbath & surround
  • Edington Centre, fish panel
  • Lazonby School, ceramic millennium mural
  • Petterill Bank School, ceramic mural
  • Brampton Infant School, pottery projects
  • Milburn School, ceramic mural
  • Caldew Lea School, ceramic mural
  • Middleton-in-Teesdale School, ceramic mural
  • Long Marton School, ceramic mural
  • Tebay School, tiled water feature & garden
  • Robert Ferguson School, ceramic mural
  • Kirkoswald School, painted 'bird' mural
  • Dufton Youth Club, Flora of the Fells mural

Clay workshops in schools have included:

  • Greek pottery
  • Egyptian tomb models
  • Noah's ark animals
  • Aztec ocarinas
  • Diwali night-lights
  • Farm Animals

To arrange a pottery workshop or art residency, contact Roma Short.

CONTACT:

Roma Short, Robin Bow Cottage, Winskill, PENRITH, Cumbria CA10 1PD
Tel: 01768 881685 
        e-mail: roma777@btinternet.com