Clay Characters
Clay Characters: Make a clay figure with Katherine Kingdon.
Clay Characters
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Clay Characters

Make a clay figure with Katherine Kingdon. 

 
Learn basic hand building techniques and have fun creating a clay figure. 
 
Katherine will teach you about form and proportion and help you to give your figure a sense of character.
 
Your piece will be taken away to be fired and can be collected from The Base at a later date.
 
What to expect:
 
Katherine will teach you about form and proportion and help you to give your figure a sense of character.
 
Your piece will be taken away to be fired and can be collected from the Base at a later date.
 
What to take /wear:
 
All materials included.
 
Please wear comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting messy.
 
Benefits:
 
Working with clay offers many developmental benefits for children, including enhancing their fine motor skills, encouraging creativity, emotional expression, and improving cognitive development.
 
Who is your tutor:
 
Katherine Kingdon’s ceramic work is full of character and storytelling.
 
Figures seem to be caught mid action and a sense of playful ambiguity draws you in and challenges your imagination.
 
Using domestic ceramics as her canvas, she gently places the storytelling in your hands.
 
Katherine has a firm grounding in ceramics and teaching, making and mending.
 
She also keeps a lively sketchbook.
 
All this feeds into her work.
 
She studied 3D Design (Ceramics and Glass) at Leicester Polytechnic, has an MA in Applied Art and Visual Culture from London Guildhall University and a PGCE from Westminster College, Oxford.
 
Times: 2pm – 4pm
The base 

The Base opened on Friday 8 February 2019 in partnership with Greenham Trust and the Corn Exchange. It became a registered charity in 2022 (charity no. 1199188) and is dedicated to improving access to the arts whilst bringing quality visual art to the local area.

Situated in a purpose-built arts and craft building, The Base’s £1.7M venue was designed by Sutton Griffin Architects of Newbury.

The space comprises of a 110sqm gallery, artists’ studios and a workshop for participatory classes.

There is also a café facility managed by Honesty Café group.

Striving to be a flagship visual arts venue in West Berkshire, The Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 54 exhibition launched the inaugural gallery programme.

Displaying some of the best wildlife photography from across the globe, the exhibition comprised of 100 photograph across 7 categories and is renowned for attracting millions of visitors around the world every year. 

The Base is also home to 8 visual artists and craft makers as well as Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire, who present their annual INSIGHT exhibition at The Base every May. 

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