As any local farmer or gardener will tell you, this area of the Sussex Weald we live in has always been famous for its heavy clay, and so it follows that for centuries we have been prolific in producing artistic ceramics of all kinds. This also includes building bricks and roofing tiles, plus the concomitant employment of our native hornbeams to make the best charcoal for firing the pottery made here, and of course all our local iron from years gone by.
So it is entirely appropriate that a thriving teaching ceramic business down the Rye Harbour road is holding a local Open Studio Exhibition from 6 to 21 June.
This will include hanging works and ceramics of all kinds… brilliant, mundane, useful and/or completely useless, but also weird and wonderful!
The exhibition by about 40 craftspeople will take place in Sarah Cox’s working and teaching studio (and the warehouse behind), with plenty of parking, tea and biccies.
Going around the exhibition might surely tempt you to sign up for one of Sarah’s regular weekly mixed ability, hand building courses, making, painting and firing absolutely anything you might like or want. It is enormous fun, and harnesses your inner Rodin! I know because I’ve done it and enjoyed every moment. Everything is supplied, and all you take is an apron and your hands!
Sarah Cox Ceramic Studio, 27 Harbour Road, Rye, TN31 7TE, 07979 857623.
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www.sarahcoxceramics.co.uk www.seos-art.org
South East Open Studio: 6 to 21 June, from 11 am to 3pm.
Private view and opening party on Friday 5 June, from 6pm until 9pm.
Image Credits: Sarah Cox .