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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.
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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

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.

25/05/2024

Another busy couple of weeks at Uclan. I very much enjoyed my first screen printing experience.
Some platters decorated and test tiles underway.

18/05/2024

Working late last night at Uclan, trying some sgraffito in my new work.

21/04/2024

Some new work starting for my MA project. I am trying different mark making methods and materials.

15/04/2024

The boxes have been bisque fired. Hopfully out this week from their final lustre, low temperature firing.

16/03/2024

This is the brief "Box of Secrets" from the Masters degree. My two boxes, one for Punch and one for Little Black...

16/03/2024

Some test tiles, using oxides and different glazes. The braille is used to describe the feeling the tile portrays.
Thought they were quite decorative too.

24/01/2024

This is what's on the shelves and for sale at the moment. A nice variety I hope?

07/01/2024

Nice to get back in the studio after the Christmas break. Thanks Jasmine for the company, a nice decorating day on Friday.

22/12/2023

Semester one completed...a great term with new skills learnt. I tested a ferrous glaze I made .....here are the results on some of the finished pieces. A surprise infiltration of chrome occurred on the church, nice effect I thought! I am only just beginning to explore stoneware glazes.

18/11/2023

Latest shelves at Upfront Gallery and Catwalk.

18/11/2023

I havent posted for a while...I have started my Masters degree in Ceramics at the University of Central Lancashire. A challenging course for someone who enjoys decorating, as I do. Hoping to pick up some new skills and explore new directions in my work.

15/09/2023

A look round the shelves this evening..

22/08/2023

Students work....shelves filling up again. Nice to have some young artists here today.

19/08/2023

My sketches from Iceland

16/07/2023

Quite a lot of work glazed today and ready for firing this week. Thank you ladies for a lively workshop today. Look forward to see what comes out.
Here are a selection of photos from my shelves at close of play!

09/07/2023

This is done with a rubber stylus! Its called wet sgraffitto.

09/07/2023

What a useful tool a flamethrower is!

09/07/2023

Nice day at the Northern Potter's camp at Uclan yesterday. I didnt take many photos, but here are a few of the competition pieces - Vessels from another world, and Hannah McAndrews and Doud Fitch's demonstration.

05/06/2023

Another great Potfest! Thanks to the potter's for friendship and kind words, Emma Lowe for great job done, Neil for exceĺlent transport and M&S for the generous flowers.
And a big thank you to everyone who came and supported the show for your good spirit and enthusiasm!

31/05/2023

And friend's work not destined for Potfest, but good firing.

31/05/2023

Fresh out of the kiln - ready for Potfest

30/05/2023

Another nice day at Catwalk. And recently decorated large bowls/ platter.

27/05/2023

Tiles for Potfest!

15/05/2023

The flowers at Catwalk. I'm enjoying sitting out in the sun.

23/04/2023

Fresh kiln out today!

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Catwalk Ceramics By Thora Talling @ Whinfell House Farm
Penrith
CA102AF

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

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