I started as soon as I could hold a pencil. I did my first drawing at two after my first vaccine of a trolley with a kidney bowl. I copied a picture in a book and the teacher took it around the whole school at primary school.
Read moreMaker of the Month: Olivia Price
I’m a printmaker specialising in linocut, screenprint and monoprint methods, sometimes combining all three. The process behind each print is really important to me, with this hopefully visible in some of my work. My lino prints and screen prints use block shapes and solid lines to create graphic and bold figurative/portraiture designs. My mono prints, in contrast, are often slightly softer in their edges and colour palette. Both styles, however, lend themselves well to having an element of fluidity and chance. Though predominantly a printmaker, I love to try and apply my style to different mediums as a form of experimenting and learning new ways of working.
Read moreHome is Where the Art is — Featuring Makerspace Members
Our ‘Home is Where the Art is’ social media campaign has proven really successful so far – followers love seeing what our members have been making at home! Thanks to those who have sent in photos and descriptions. We’d like to keep this feature going as long as possible, ideally until the space opens again.
Read moreCoil Pot Challenge with Colchester Makerspace & Caroline Rhys-Lewis
We know lots of you will be missing the feeling of getting stuck into clay. So we wanted to offer something to satisfy that pottery urge! We have created Coil Pot Kits to post to members for free! - they'll contain 500g of clay and a handy step-by-step guide to making a coil pot at home. This page also has a very handy video tutorial (above) from our very own Clay Lady - ceramics contributor and teacher Caroline Rhys-Lewis and a simple written step-by-step below the form.
Read moreMaker of the Month: Iris Dina Gunnardottir
I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, performance, photography, drawing, printing and, most importantly, ceramics. I would describe most of my work to be minimal in some respects. I like to keep things simple but effective and I would say that about all of the mediums I use. I like exploring techniques, which is often what gives me my motivation.
Read moreIsolation Textile Collaboration with Colchester Makerspace & Clothing Clinic
Colchester Makerspace and the Clothing Clinic would like to invite you to join in with a community project that creates a large art piece from small objects that you will make from home throughout this time of social isolation. The art piece will be exhibited in a central location in Colchester.
Read moreCredits, Rescheduled Events and Refunds...
Following government guidance, we have closed the Makerspace until further notice. We have also postponed all of our events up until the end of April.
Read moreMaker of the Month: Diana Mayo (November 2019)
I call myself an illustrator, which essentially means I make pictures to accompany or illuminate some text or a manuscript, tell a story or help show or sell an idea. I now work mainly for publishers illustrating children’s books, but I have also worked for design groups, advertisers, magazines and greeting card companies.
Read moreJoin the Colchester Christmas Ceramic Fair
On the 1st of December, we are planning to join the Trinity Street Christmas Market by hosting our very own Christmas Ceramics Fair — and ideal opportunity for people to purchase locally made, hand crafted christmas gifts while we showcase all the talent we have as members fo the Makerspace and in Colchester. It is also a great opportunity to meet like minded makers.
Read moreMaker of the Month: Robbie Spence
When I first saw someone throw a pot on a wheel I thought, that is so amazingly beautiful, I want to learn to do that. When I watched the professional thrower followed by the hapless contestants on Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game in the sixties I was hooked: I was about 8. Luckily my school had good pottery equipment, including a wheel. After I’d learned to throw there, which culminated in my first teapot – which is, after all, the highest form of expres`sion in ceramics! – it was adult ed classes. This was then followed by a job as the pottery and art teacher at a USA summer camp in 1992 and I then did a Diploma in Ceramics from London Metropolitan University in 1995.
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