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Thora Talling has set up her own studio at Catwalk Ceramics, also offering pottery tuition. Hours as I have been a potter for nearly three decades now.

I started out with classes at Kendal College, with teacher Karen Wilkinson, then at Mike and Vicky Eden’s night class, and also the annual pottery holiday there – the highlight of the year. I have tried to replicate the Hungarian glazes, brought over by Mike and Vicky, these being blue (cobalt), green (copper) and orange (red iron oxide) to use together on my bowls. I have also explored traditiona

l decorating techniques for earthenware slipware, such as scraffito (scratching through to the red clay), and sponging and slip-trailing techniques. I have enjoyed going to the Aberystwyth International Ceramics Festival 2013 and 2015, and brought back new ideas using these techniques. I like colour and the interplay between slips (coloured liquid decorating clay) and glazes, both coloured, shiny and matt. I like to try new ways of decorating and view my time as a potter as a journey always with new places to go, new techniques to try. I throw some of my smaller bowls and enjoy using my sketches or photos of animals – mainly cats! – to decorate these I have also experimented with sculpture, putting together thrown bowls as the basics of my form. I won a prize for this at my first Potfest! I hand coil larger bowls which are decorated with horses and donkeys and decorated using underglaze colours, wax and a wash of cobalt oxide. I also design and produce friezes to hang on the wall, with landscapes created by rolling textured cloth into the slab and other objects, such as natural objects such as seaweed and shells to create texture, and then using coloured slips and glazes. These have a strong clay hanger fired onto the back. I have also worked with colours on tin glaze to make Chinese Vases. These are inspired by original Chinese paintings. This year I have ventured 'Out West', exhibiting at the Rum Story and the Rosehill Theatre at Whitehaven on the West Coast of Cumbria. This year was my sixth at Potfest in the Pens and I really enjoyed meeting the public and seeing the other Potters and their wares. In recent times I have been working wìth some charities like the Brooke and International Animal Rescue. With the sale of some of my work to help these good causes has been very satisfying. I have also made a foray into the canine world with some bowls sold in aid of C4GP, a charity for homeless dogs. And really enjoyed all the commissions of people's pets I was trusted with before Christmas- mostly dogs this year! A bowl with your pet on is only £35 + p&p! I run classes and workshops and will now be advertising these on my page. My cobalt wash workshops are always popular and there will be a tin glaze workshop later this spring. Keep an eye on my page and sign up for a workshop if you like. Look forward to see you at Catwalk...

Thora

18/03/2025

Some finished pots.....a Javan Rhino in the swamp and a Tibetan Cat God!

03/03/2025

Drawing rhinos tonight....

25/02/2025

Tonight's University work....not finished yet. There was a good country and western program on Scottish Radio to work to.

11/02/2025

First 3 shelves of Catwalk studio cleaned and cleared of stuff...
Thank you Emma for your excellent sorting out skills!

26/01/2025

The last couple of days' drawings. Rhinos 🧡

25/01/2025

Two Orangutan drawings...experimenting with the use of 2 colours.

01/01/2025

Some sketches I have done of late..with my little helper!

20/12/2024

Work is moving on, trying to create art with a message.
Hope everyone has a Happy Christmas.

18/11/2024

Recent work from Uclan. I have enjoyed printing, which is unfinished work, but I have decided to go with sgraffito for the foreseeable anyway.
I am working with collages as a start point, which have evolved into a process in their own right.

25/10/2024

Mum and I have opened the kiln with the first firing of the lighthouses - all well!

15/10/2024

Enjoying a quiet day with Mum at Catwalk.

24/09/2024

I started this lighthouse project a few weeks ago. I used some paperclay and some white stoneware. Nowhere near finished yet, but its been a choppy journey!
And some photos of Catwalk shelves on late summer afternoon.

17/09/2024

My Uclan work finished earlier this summer. I am using sgraffitto or screen printing on ceramic mainly.

15/07/2024

Something new today - the Japanese art of joining broken vessels - Kintsugi

09/07/2024

New work fresh out of the kiln this afternoon, with Mum.🧡

30/06/2024

A couple more sgraffitto platters out of the kiln.....as well as a few going in! I'm really enjoying my new sgraffitto tools.

24/06/2024

Mr Yellow Golden Pheasant

11/06/2024

A great workshop, monoprinting, this afternoon.
Interesting remembering some of the techniques discovered at our last monoprinting workshop a couple of years ago. And some new tried out.
Thank you Libby and Emma for the company.

Address

Catwalk Ceramics By Thora Talling @ Whinfell House Farm
Penrith
CA102AF

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	10am - 4pm

Website

http://www.catwalkceramics.co.uk/

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