Weekend smoke firing workshop
Weekend smoke firing workshop for beginners. No previous experience necessary.
The workshop span two weekends and cost £35 per weekend and include all materials, tuition and a lovely lunch.
First workshop take place Sunday 7th March at 10-3pm at my studios in Dudley Road in Hastings.
During this session we create ceramic bowls and sculptures which I’ll bisque fire ready for our second meeting on Sunday 21st March 10-3pm when we will smoke fire the work in the garden outside my studio. Smoke firing in galvanised dustbins using sawdust is a technique I have worked on for over 10 years and I believe it is unique to me. It is amazingly easy to learn, though, and fun.
Maximum of 5 per workshop – please book quickly to avoid disappointment. There is a deposit of £10 to secure a place.
Smoke fired Fat Birds.
Please email me here for further information.
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This is a painting by the German painter Cornelius called ‘Cavalier Avantgarde seizes the Salon’.
I often feel a sense of dread and frustration when walking around the airless rooms in museeums and art galleries; I feel as though I’m visiting sick relatives in a sterile hospital for the dying.
Since the advent of art dealers, the value of artistic expression in measured in how much money a piece of art can fetch at auction. The Men in Suits inform us that a shark in formaldehyde is ‘art’ and so must be locked up in a museeum and protected from the public.
It seems to me that perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing back; The great art establishment silverback Anthony Gormley decided that the general public should be given an opportunity to fill the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Perhaps Stepford Creativity will become less venerated and perhaps we, the rabble, will once more invade the Salon, causing uproar and confusion with art arising from heart and soul…
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The Mermaid
I am that soundless, boundless, bitter sea.
All tides are mine, and answer unto me.
Tides of the airs, tides of the inner earth.
The secret, silent tides of death and birth…
Dion Fortune: The Sea Priestess
I have got this need to create images of the Great Goddess in a human shape…I see the earth as a living entity, and I guess this is a way of communicating with her.
This is a smoke fired ceramic torso – 20”x14”.
It is made to hang from the wall with hooks at the back. See more at my website www.annakeiller.com.
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It has been a couple of wonderful and absurd days here in Hastings when nobody has been able to use my road – except for walking. This morning, the only people out were two foxes playing in the street…
So I have had to postpone the start of my new ceramic workshops by one week.
New Starting Dates;
COURSE OPTION ONE: A five sessions workshop covering essential ceramic techniques such as coiling, slab building, press moulding and glazing. Each session is 2.5 hours long including a teabreak, and the aim is for you to have fun and come away with bowls and sculptures you are really happy with. The groups are small, so please sign up early to avoid disappointment.
Starting date; Tuesday Jan.19th at 6.30 pm
Course costs just £110 + materials (approx. £10)
COURSE OPTION TWO: A five sessions workshop where we focus on techniques covered during previous workshops plus an exploration of unique smoke firing techniques which I have developed over many years using sawdust and galvanised dustbins! A lot of fun and amazingly easy to learn. The sessions are 2.5 hours long, including a teabreak.
Starting date; Saturday Jan.23th 11am-1.30pm
Course costs just £110 + materials (approx. £10)
Please email me here to find out more or sign up.
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Ceramic Birds; Pheasants
A pair of pheasants looking slightly sheepish! They are about 8×5” . 
To see more of my work, please go to www.annakeiller.com.
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I will be running two short pottery classes from my studio in Hastings Old Town starting in January – one for beginners and one for people with previous experience and you are very welcome to join us in the fun!
COURSE OPTION ONE: A five sessions workshop covering essential ceramic techniques such as coiling, slab building, press moulding and glazing. Each session is 2.5 hours long including a teabreak, and the aim is for you to have fun and come away with bowls and sculptures you are really happy with. The groups are small, so please sign up early to avoid disappointment.
Starting date; Tuesday Jan.12th at 6.30 pm
Course costs just £110 + materials (approx. £10)
COURSE OPTION TWO: A five sessions workshop where we focus on techniques covered during previous workshops plus an exploration of unique smoke firing techniques which I have developed over many years using sawdust and galvanised dustbins! A lot of fun and amazingly easy to learn. The sessions are 2.5 hours long, including a teabreak.
Starting date; Saturday Jan.16th 11am-1.30pm
Course costs just £110 + materials (approx. £10)
Please email me here to find out more or sign up.
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New years day 2010
Looking out over a white Hastings, the sun is melting the snow on the roof outside my studio and I can see the water vapour rise like smoke from the black felt… Life doesn’t get much better than this! 
Green Angel, ceramic sculpture. Please click the image to see a larger version.
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Happy New Year 2010
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A friend gave me a bike a year or two ago – and on my first venture out I nearly ended up a road kill – I don’t own a car, so for me it has been walking or busses ever since…a cycle lane or two would be great…
Hastings Borough Council does not believe in supporting cyclists – yet.
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