19.a Garden tiles and complements
Instructor: Pietro Maddalena
Type: Handbuilding - For all
Dates: May 9 – 15, 2010
Tiles and slab built work is a unique medium for both artistic expression and useful projects of the most diverse nature, scope and destination. Tile related making methods are perfect to build functional objects and ornaments for the garden like large flowerpots, fountains, basins, birdbath, columns, arches and benches. Fireplaces, bathrooms, kitchens and complements are further possible applications.
In this ceramic workshop we will work with Galestro, a local terracotta clay which is material durable enough to withstand all kinds of weather. We will explore design and implementation of tile and garden projects, discovering a variety of ways to make, cut and decorate two and three-dimensional work, which can be figurative or abstract, flat, in relief or free standing, small or huge.
The duration of the workshop is studied for creating your project. Since this type of work needs much time to dry before firing, a weekend will be scheduled later in the year for those who wish to return for firing or arrangements will be made for shipping finished work.
Cost € 800
Includes tuition, materials, lodging, a welcome dinner and lunches.
Separate arrangements will be made for the cost of firing and shipping, depending on the size of the work.
 Pietro Elia Maddalena studied ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England. After two more years of work at Dartington Workshop, he returned to Italy where in 1980 he established a studio in Certaldo, near Florence. Pietro is the founder and director of the International School of Ceramics LA MERIDIANA located in Tuscany, Italy. Also instructor and maker he says of himself : “ I am totally and continuously interested in the process of making. I see the craft object as a projection of the human spirit and the culture in which it was nurtured. In elaborating concept, material and process, my ultimate goal is the expression of beauty through sophisticated and sensual forms”.
www.pietro.net
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