Handbuilt Ceramic Palette & Trinket Dish Workshop

Create a beautiful handmade ceramic piece that is as practical as it is personal. During this relaxed handbuilding workshop, you'll design and make your own organic paint palette, watercolour palette, jewellery dish, or trinket tray using stoneware clay.

Inspired by the things that bring meaning to your everyday life, you'll design and shape a series of soft, organic compartments to suit your own creative practice or daily rituals. Create a ceramic paint palette, a jewellery or trinket dish, a place for crystals, botanicals or treasured keepsakes - or simply follow your own inspiration to make something uniquely yours.

Melissa will guide you through each stage of the process, from shaping and refining the form through to creating individual wells and compartments. You'll explore smoothing techniques, carving, stamping, sprigs, and subtle surface decoration to personalise your piece while maintaining its beautiful organic aesthetic.

Suitable for beginners through to experienced makers, this workshop focuses on simple handbuilding techniques that are enjoyable, relaxing, and accessible to everyone.

You will work with a pale stoneware clay, and your piece will be clear glazed to maintain the natural clay colour after its first firing.