EXTRA
Kay Fender, an English friend of ours, is offering to run a 2 hour course on pottery in English for anybody interested (this is optional - pupils can stay at home and read, study, work, if they wish). The session will be €35 which includes the materials, the firing in her kiln and the transportation to her son's restaurant in Paris, from where the finished "masterpieces" can be collected. She has a lovely studio and this would be a great way of using English and being creative! Let us know on the form if you are interested or by email, so that she knows numbers in advance.
Louise:
Paddy and Vicki drove us to Kay Fender's manor house at 2 o' clock. The house is made of brick and flint. When we arrived we saw donkeys and cats. The workshop was formerly an old waggon shed. There is glass all around for the light to come in.
April:
Kay gave us all a hard piece of clay to knead. It was very strange but it turned into a soft lump of clay. We chopped the lump in two, to see if there were any air bubbles. You can flatten the piece with a rolling pin and stamp it with Indian printing blocks. Once you have finished, you can paint it.
Juliette
Kay is lovely. She helps you when you have a problem;she's encouraging and cares about what you are doing. She's very talented and does super pretty bowls. She can take your art off the table without breaking it, very easily.
Aurélien
The cats survey you as you walk, as if they were the masters of the small farm. After all your hard work, a little cup of tea with home-made scones and jam in a great old farmhouse kitchen, is well deserved. Come to Paddy and Vicki's to have access to Kay's pottery workshop , and all that while learning English!
Sapphire:
Once tea was over, we went back to the waggon shed to continue pottery. This time I made something: a teapot. I made one clay bowl and Kay made another one. After, we stuck the two bowls together. Kay was so nice and helped a lot. Once my teapot was finished, I wrote my name in paint.
