This workshop invites you to explore earth as an artistic material, using wild clays and soils that I have collected directly from the natural environment. It’s a creative and sustainable way to discover the colours, textures and possibilities already present in the ground beneath our feet.

Working in small groups, you’ll receive personalised guidance as you learn how to prepare and apply clay to create a textured art piece on a 30 × 30 cm canvas, which you’ll take home at the end of the session.

This is not a ceramics or pottery class. Instead, it’s a different approach to working with clay — one that uses natural materials and slow, hands-on techniques. These methods can be applied not only to small artworks, but also to larger surfaces, including walls. If the technique inspires you and you have a wall you’d love to bring to life, we can also chat after the workshop about the possibility of hosting a future collaborative mural workshop.

I bring these practices with me from South America, where I’ve worked for years with earth as both a building and artistic material. The use of earth for art connects to ancestral knowledge shared across cultures worldwide — from early cave paintings to Aboriginal Australian rock art. This workshop offers a space to reconnect with that timeless relationship through a contemporary, hands-on creative process.

What makes this workshop unique is that we are not working with commercial ceramic clay, but with the same earth found beneath our feet, transformed into a raw, expressive and sustainable artistic material. Guided in small groups, it’s an invitation to slow down, work with your hands, and rediscover earth as a creative and meaningful material.

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