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Chats about pottery with an environmental focus. Tune in for pottery tips and a discussion of issues in the handmade pottery industry today. Oxford Clay creates resources for Potters seeking a more environmentally friendly pottery practice. Oxford Clay website: www.oxfordclay.co.uk

  1. 6D AGO

    Is This The Most Useful Pottery Tool Ever?!

    In this episode, I talk to you about the 6 different ways in which I use my favourite pottery tool - a cotton tea towel!  💡 - To reclaim wet clay on.  💡 - To wedge (or knead) clay on to remove excess water from clay thats a little bit too wet.  💡 - As a rolling cloth when rolling out clay.  💡 - Between pieces of wet flat clay as it’s drying.  💡 - In a technique to make a perfectly flat rim or base of a pot.  💡 - To remove condensation in a damp box when drying clay slowly and evenly.  You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: ⭐ Pottery eBooks ⭐ Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Free Pottery Guides: 🆓 Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): 🆓 Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

    16 min

  2. MAR 16

    Choosing Your Thoughts To Best Support Your Pottery Making

    Some thoughts created by our brains, support us when making pottery, and some definitely less so! Join me for this episode where I talk about some thoughts I've had in pottery that haven’t supported my pottery such as ‘I’ll never be good at pottery’, ‘I’ll never be as good as them’ (in an evening class setting) and ‘I don't like my finished pot’!   I talk about some alternative thoughts you can replace these with to truly support yourself in your pottery-making and make your mind a safer and kinder space to learn.  You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: ⭐ Pottery eBooks ⭐ Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Free Pottery Guides: 🆓 Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): 🆓 Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

    18 min

  3. MAR 9

    How To Write a Pottery Book (or Any Book!)

    I created this episode for anyone who thinks they might like to write a book but hasn't yet - you can do it! The world needs to hear your ideas and unique voice!  In this episode, I talk about how I follow my curiosity to write books on pottery. I speak about how my ideas form, and how I experiment, research, write and format my books before publishing.  You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: ⭐ Pottery eBooks ⭐ Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Free Pottery Guides: 🆓 Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): 🆓 Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

    17 min

  4. MAR 2

    How to Design Pottery For The Environment

    Designing for the environment is a way of creating products where the minimum possible negative environmental impact on the environment is intrinsic to their design.  In design for the environment, a product is thought of holistically, from the raw materials used to make it to its manufacturing process.  Potters have a huge opportunity to design for the environment because we have direct control over how our pottery is made and the ingredients we make it with.  In this episode, I explain the three different aspects I used to create a design for the environment framework at Oxford Clay in which to make my pottery. The three aspects of designing for the environment framework in pottery are:  ⭐ Raw materials ⭐ Pot design  ⭐ Pottery-making processes  The books mentioned in this episode are:  Eco-conscious Pottery Glazing: Make your own pottery glazes with minimal harm to humans, animals and the environment. Eco-Friendly Pottery: 30 Simple Ways: to make your pottery practice more ethical and sustainable. You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: ⭐ Pottery eBooks ⭐ Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Free Pottery Guides: 🆓 Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): 🆓 Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

    23 min

  5. JAN 26

    How to Reclaim Clay in Pottery

    Clay can be infinitely recycled before it’s fired! This process is called ‘reclaiming’ and it involves turning clay that is either too dry or too wet, back into a usable state.  In this episode, we talk about how to reclaim your own clay without any specialist equipment, in four very simple steps.  *Scooping sloppy wet clay out of the reclaiming bucket onto a tea towel, inside away from wind and sun. *Waiting a few days for the clay to dry out.  * Wedging the clay on another tea towel or cotton cloth to keep the wedging / kneading area free of clay.  *Storing the clay in an airtight container. You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- *New book: Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available on the Oxford Clay website here. *A paper copy of Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available from Amazon here. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: Oxford Clay website resources for Potters Pottery eBooks Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Video mini-courses for Potters Oxford Clay blog ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

    17 min

  6. JAN 12

    Regenerative Fashion’s Lessons For Pottery

    I read a really interesting book recently on regenerative fashion and it really got me thinking about whether any of the concepts could be applied to the handmade pottery industry. In this episode, I explore author Safia Minney’s ideas in the book Regenerative Fashion: A Nature-based Approach to Fibres, Livelihoods and Leadership and think about ways we could use them as Potters.  The ideas from Regenerative Fashion I think about are;  *Thinking about pottery holistically, from where the materials have come from, who has mined them and where, how they have been processed and transported.  *Whether we can use renewable materials in pottery  *Eliminating fossil fuels in pottery  *Using local materials to reduce global transportation.  *Sustainable design in pottery - designing for the environment rather than for purely aesthetics If you would like more information on pottery materials, knowing where they come from and their environmental impact, these books from Oxford Clay are particularly focused on this issue:  Eco-Friendly Pottery: 30 Simple Ways: to make your pottery practice more ethical and sustainable Eco-conscious Pottery Glazing: Make your own pottery glazes with minimal harm to humans, animals and the environment    The blog post on Designing Pottery for the Environment mentioned in this episode can be found here.  The book featured in this episode is Regenerative Fashion: A Nature-based Approach to Fibres, Livelihoods and Leadership Paperback – 28 Nov. 2022 by Safia Minney (Author). You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- *New book: Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available on the Oxford Clay website here. *A paper copy of Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available from Amazon here. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: Oxford Clay website resources for Potters Pottery eBooks Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Video mini-courses for Potters Oxford Clay blog ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

  7. JAN 1

    Happy New Year! Four New Years Resolutions in Pottery⭐

    Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! ⭐In this episode, I tell you about my four New Year’s resolutions in pottery.   *Talking to myself kindly about my pottery, especially when things go wrong - an inevitable part of the pottery-making process! Creating a kind, safe space in my own thoughts to make mistakes. *Prioritise experimentation and playing in pottery. *Creating a joy list of things I really enjoy doing in pottery (one of them is this podcast!) and only doing those things.   *To stop rushing through making pottery and instead savour the process of creation.  You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- *New book: Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available on the Oxford Clay website here. *A paper copy of Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available from Amazon here. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: Oxford Clay website resources for Potters Pottery eBooks Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Video mini-courses for Potters Oxford Clay blog ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

  8. 12/15/2024

    How to Find Your Own Unique Creative Style in Pottery

    Every person creating in clay is totally unique and therefore has a totally unique creative style in pottery! In this episode, I talk about the ways you can cultivate your own unique creative style in pottery, such as;  *The importance of following your curiosity and joy in pottery.   *How practising pottery techniques reduces the gap between what you want to make and what you can actually make, opening up new creative possibilities.  *The importance of making ‘mistakes’ and things going ‘wrong’ in pottery for growing your skills.  You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. ------------------------------- *New book: Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available on the Oxford Clay website here. *A paper copy of Eco-conscious Pottery Colour is available from Amazon here. ------------------------------- Resources for Potters: Oxford Clay website resources for Potters Pottery eBooks Download the Free How to Make a Pottery Glaze Workbook (suitable for beginners): Download the Free How to programme an Electric Kiln for bisque and stoneware glaze firings (includes full kiln firing schedule) Pottery Paperback Books available from Amazon Video mini-courses for Potters Oxford Clay blog ------------------------------------ Get your pottery question answered on the podcast! Submit your pottery question to the Oxford Clay podcast by emailing your question to: info@oxfordclay.co.uk with the subject line ‘Podcast Question’.

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Chats about pottery with an environmental focus. Tune in for pottery tips and a discussion of issues in the handmade pottery industry today. Oxford Clay creates resources for Potters seeking a more environmentally friendly pottery practice. Oxford Clay website: www.oxfordclay.co.uk

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  • Creator
    Katherine Tomlinson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    84
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Oxford Clay 2022
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    Oxford Clay

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