In our studio we teach hand-building, the potter’s wheel and a variety of glazing techniques. Our passion is for using different clays and exploring texture and form.
We use a state of the art electric kiln, and also practise traditional outdoor-firing techniques such as Raku and barrel-firing.
Jackie has been drawn to ceramics from an early age and took herself off on numerous evening courses from the age of 18 onwards before pursuing a career in TV Production. While still continuing with her pottery eduction throughout this time, thirty years later she decided to returned back to her love of pottery making to immerse herself fulling in both hand building and throwing.
Jackie’s work is predominately hand built from stoneware clay, painted with a mix of slips and oxides before being fired and glazed.
Her forms are drawn from her love of the Korean moon jar representing abundance, purity, and maternity.
Email: jackie@langtonspottery.com
Andrea brings a creative re-imagining to her pottery – loving to surprise with textures, colours, shape, materials and process. Her work takes the everyday, the mundane, and allows it to explode into new ways of being.
She is a woman who has chosen to take a second path in career, by making what was her passion and downtime pleasure, her everyday. Andrea describes herself as an academic activist in her 30 years as an academic at Edinburgh, Exeter and Leicester universities. As Dr and then Professor she delighted in making the unseen seen, the taboo become the everyday, and bridging what many assumed to be incommensurable. And it is easy to see how this continues in her ceramic work.
Andrea is proudly one of the pioneers in changing the culture around women’s menopause. Starting this work in 2012 before it was even possible to say Menopause out loud.
She champions the therapeutic and wellbeing that pottery brings. She trained in somatic and embodied psychology and neuroscience when she discovered these were the (only) ways to heal from the inter-personal Trauma she experienced, and consequent ComplexPTSD.
She advocates working with the earth, being creative and being with community as the secrets to happiness and wellbeing.
Email: andrea@langtonspottery.com
