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Bridget Williams

Disciplines

Arts and crafts with specialism in ceramics

Workshops for Ages

All ages

Workshops Offered

Ceramics workshops:
101 things to make from a pinch pot! –Animals, heads and shoulders, hands,teapots,fruit and vegetables .etc
Toby jugs,masks and slab work,
Textured pots using found objects,
Coiled pots and sculptures
Pots and decorative objects made by inlaying white clay in red clay.
Slip-decoration, including paper and latex resist,sgraffitto and slip-trailing.
Burnishing and smoke firing
Ceramic murals.
Wheel work and throwing demonstrations

Arts and crafts at primary level also include:
Drawing and painting
Block printing
Willow and tissue paper sculptures/lanterns
Collage
Paper mache
Mosaic
Scenery for plays

Most techniques can be adapted to working to all ages and abilities.
I am versatile and flexible and able to fit in or devise workshops to link in with current themes and ideas.

I am also willing to offer workshops for primary school teachers to help expand their range of art skills. Exploring a new medium (without pressure)is the best way to gain the confidence and skills in order to pass it on.

Artist Statement

Bridget has a degree in Fine art and discovered clay whilst studying Art Therapy in 1980.She developed her skills in ceramics through evening classes and working in a potters collective in London.

In 1989 she moved to Gloucestershire to undertake a residency at Prema Arts Centre. Since then she has completed a number of residencies and taught in a variety of settings with all age groups and all levels of ability.She currently works from her studio at home near Stroud and teaches adults with learning difficulties.

Bridget’s work is made using mainly red earthenware clay..Her one-off burnished forms are loosely based upon structures observed in nature and have both hand built and thrown elements.They are burnished (polished with a smooth object such as the back of a metal spoon) before firing. Some then undergo a sawdust firing in which they absorb patterns created by smoke.,
Besides these sculptural pieces, Bridget makes domestic ware on the wheel: large platters, bowls, mugs,teapots etc., the surface acting as a canvas to which she applies coloured slips under a transparent glaze.