BANANA ISLAND SCHOOL'S ART WEEK 2022
Learning the Basics.
Our Key Stage 2 children began their pottery classes for the week learning some techniques for handbuilding with clay, a fundamental skill in pottery making.
Handbuilding is working with clay by hand using only simple tools instead of a pottery wheel. You can either build by coiling, pinching or slab building. With experience using these methods, a potter can make any object out of clay.
It is said that the renowned potter, Dr Ladi Kwali - our focus for the week - made her pots from stoneware clay using the traditional free-hand modelling technique, a technique that she perfected.