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One of a kind contemporary jewellery and ceramics to wear and to collect
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Studio Herondale London: Experimental Workshops in Porcelain & Silver - 2024 Dates Coming Soon
Kekova Island Studio: Experimental Ceramics Workshops on Turkey's Lycian coast
Ever wondered how the ancient Greeks and Romans made their ceramics?
Leave the modern world behind to take part in a captivating wild pottery workshop in the magical Lycian village of Simena on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
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Watch our film below to find out more:
Hunting & Gathering in the Land of Light
Come ready to go on an adventure in a region so geographically remote yet so rich for artistic inspiration, by a sunken city submerged beneath the waters of the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago in a series of earthquakes in the second century. This ancient civilization in Asia Minor belonged to an important trading system connecting east Mediterranean on the main shipping route between Constantinople and the Near East
We will go on field trips in pristine nature, collecting plants, sea shells, fossils, feathers, seaweed and wild flowers in the raw, untamed and exquisitely beautiful surroundings . We will make Hakame brushes for mark-making, and press clay into rocks, or carvings on ancient sarcophagi and other textural surfaces
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Using Kekova Island's rich historical environment and the local Museum of Lycian Civilisations collection as a source of inspiration, we will create delicate fragments, keepsakes and small sculptural forms. We will experiment with contemporary approaches to hand building, construct small moulds, explore printing, embossing and decorative surface techniques using local Kekova slip made from freshly dug wild clay -- the same oxide-rich softly textured red clay that was dug up by ancient potters here 2,500 years ago. This special clay, distinctive to the lowlands of Lycia, fires to a beautiful reddish colour and was used at the end of the Byzantine Roman era well over 1,000 years ago
Throughout the week, we will be surrounded by the ravishing beauty of Kekova, a tranquil place with water a jeweled shade of blue-green. Our workshop will be interspersed with early morning and sunset swims in the warm Mediterranean waters, boat trips admiring the luminescence of plankton in the night sea, spotting the Caretta Caretta sea turtles during the day and walks under a starlit sky. No street lights here at night, only the Milky Way. It is hard not to fall in love with Kekova, a magical place where time stands still
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