Salve Ceramic

11/08/2025

For a change, went and printed some teeshirts for Ryan Siddall today at Niall Greaves studio Newbridge Print project.

02/12/2024

An example of the iron rich river clay from Allenheads.
Stoneware fired, half bottom exterior left bare, with oat glaze on the rest. The reactivity of the iron and various other chemicals on the clay body make for a lot variations on the usual expected colour for glazes.

01/12/2024

Processing some clay taken out of the river Allen, a feeder rive to the Tyne. It's full of iron thanks to the geological makeup of the land, so it's incredibly dark rich and red/black in colour.
The area was mined for lead rather than coal, mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, but until the 1960s flurospar mining continued, a crystal used in flux for manufacturing ceramic glazes.

We used to pull beautiful crystals of it out of the river.
It's my favourite type of countryside, feeling not at all penned in by private farmlands.
Just miles of desolae ruins and moor and very raggy sheep. .

In this one, we go to God's country, the Northern Pennines in England, UK to visit 3 x lead mines from the 1800 and a look at a smelt mill from the 1600s, wi...

19/01/2022

We are looking for new people to come and take some lessons in feburary!

If you know anyone who would enjoy a pottery sesion- learnign how to throw on the wheel, and making some handmade items, thena follow up session to glaze them-
(total 4 hours over two sessions for under £50 pp, and as much pottery as you make)
please share this status, or message us here

(sessions can be up to 3 people, 2 is best for time and focus)

-all materials and protective clothing provided, here's one of our students at work

11/06/2021

cracking soap dish- with drainage hole AND directional spout to sink, from Susan Jane

30/04/2021

teaching sessions are back on and ready for booking!
some inspiration ...

This video demonstrates the five major techniques used by potters in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria. The techniques include concave mold, convex mold, coil...

16/08/2020

Pleased with these. Commission for Karma Coast , going to glaze some more things in this style as I love the way it's come out.

Lessons are available again, so contact me or Alyson if you'd like to arrange anything !
-ellen :)

21/05/2020

Lush looking website in the works from Matt Silcox !

Brilliant news, as facebook is rubbish for businesses, since their algorythm change a couple of years back.

My (Ellen's) Etsy page, will soon be in action too, as well as Alysons which is here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AOCeramics

Hopefully lockdown will be easing soon and we can start having classes again, I miss teaching.

I have never, ever been able to access this pages facebook inbox, so for anyone who does want to arrange future sessions now, please message me on my personal page linked above.

Here's a few of my recent lot fresh out the kiln