Karen Hanvidge: Slab built, quirky functional and decorative ceramics class

The Art Department, Paisley Ltd is a year round creative enterprise that runs art galleries, exhibitions, creative learning workshops and events. We work with a range of professional artists to deliver our FREE programme and our participants are drawn from far and wide, are of diverse interests, pursuits and backgrounds.  We offer blended learning environment that is social, suportive and non-judgemental.  Many of our artists and participants are encouraged show work in our  major annual exhibition, The Big Art Show.As an equalities organisation we focus on those with the Protected Characteristics and our mission is “the achievement and celebration of equality through the arts with a particular emphasis on the lives, work, and experiences of those communities from . We engage, advocate, and work with people from diverse communities and we do this by promoting, presenting, and producing social, cultural and educational activities.”

Steven Thomson, Creative Producer

Pottery Class: Slab built, vibrant and quirky functional and decorative ceramics.

The Art Department (former Allders store)

Outspoken Arts Workshops Autumn 2022

A series of FREE workshops in Central Paisley at the new Art Deparment. Painting, Drawing, Pottery, Collages and Mixed Media. Suits all types, blended learning environment, all materials supplied. No experience necessary.

KAREN HANVIDGE CERAMICS
Slab built, vibrant and quirky functional and decorative ceramics.

A Visual Journey

ARTIST BIO
Since my first introduction to clay as a child growing up in California I have been completely seduced by the pliability of this medium. I have drawn and painted since childhood and in my mid 40s I applied for art school to fulfil a long-held dream to work with clay. I felt compelled to discover how I could combine my love of drawing and painting with designing and making with clay. Accepted onto the Ceramics Design part-time degree course at Glasgow School of Art I completed my BA (Hons) degree in 2011.
My early life growing up in a sunny and sometimes sun-bleached environment influenced my artistic development with its contrast of vibrancy and the faded stimulating my senses. I love a vibrant pop of colour as much as a faded and worn former beauty. I continue to search out and develop themes of form, colour and pattern and enjoy using simple shaped forms which complement my designs and act as canvases to explore. Trying not to over-analyse while working, I often let the process guide me to the next stage. I delight in the unexpected with words, music and stories often leading my clay meanderings. I do not strive for the perfect but prefer to leave a human element to my work showing surrender to natural impulses, colourways and mark making. 
Now living and working from my studio in Renfrewshire, I continue to explore new ideas and my local town of Paisley, and its heritage paisley pattern have been an immense inspiration in my designs and making. My designs are both decorative as well as functional. I slab build my ceramics, finding this method more receptive to my methods and techniques of surface decoration. Most of my designs are made taking many hours of work to design, make and complete and are a true labour of love.

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