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Learn how to make porcelain jewellery working with the fines material in ceramics.
Come along and try your hand skills and creativity.
It is a 2,5 h session, where you will be guided through the process to design and hand made your own pieces, decorating with crystalline glazes. You will discover the beauty of this tactile material, and fun techniques to create original pieces. Pendants, earrings, brooches cufflinks.
You will learn techniques like hand cutting, surface decorating, glazing.
Erika is a professionally trained porcelain painter, ceramics designer-maker, working with Bone china and porcelain. Her range includes jewellery, fine tableware, objects, hand painted with botanical designs.
She will teach you how to hand craft delicate jewellery pieces from simple shapes to more elaborate, different methods of surface decoration,and applying glazes.
You will be provided with all materials, few sets of jewellery with findings (ear hooks, studs, jump rings, cuff links) . Your pieces will be fired and ready to collect within a week after the class.
Ideal Birthday present, a creative class to your beloved one/s, well suited for henparties or group of riends outings! If you plan to have a bigger group than 6, I can take groups up to 8 people. Please DM me in this case!
Erika is a professionally trained porcelain painter. After her qualification course and China painter Diploma, she completed 5 years’ experience in Herend Porcelain Manufacture, hand painting fine porcelain tableware.
After moving to the UK, she spent 9 years as a studio assistant working with leading ceramic artists, Kate Malone (judge of Pottery Throw down on BBC) Sue Binns and Valeria Nascimento.
Erika was commissioned by Hampton Court Palace to hand paint the recreation of King George I. Chocolate cups, originally made by Meissen Porcelain Manufacture. As part of the recently discovered Chocolate Kitchen, the pieces are on permanent display in the Palace.
Erika's current work is making her own range of white Bone China and black porcelain tableware, hand painted with floral motives. Using traditionally techniques and skills, creating modern designs, emphasizing the contrast between the perfection of detailed hand painting and the imperfection of handmade ceramics.
Erika is a passionate and talented teacher who enjoys sharing her knowledge of professional hand painting and teaching the technique to create beautiful designs.
