What you will learn:
Find the Story Behind Your Piece
Learn how to turn a memory, feeling, place, symbol, or small moment into the starting point for a ceramic object that feels personal and meaningful.
Build a Hand-Made Ceramic Form
Create your main piece using approachable hand-building techniques, then shape, refine, and prepare it for the details that will bring your story to life.
Add Symbols, Texture & Painted Details
Use motifs, surface texture, colour, imagery, and thoughtful finishing touches to create a ceramic piece that feels full of character, story, and heart.
Meet the potter!
Hello, I'm Erin, the maker behind erinswindow.
For me, ceramics are much more than beautiful objects, they're a way of telling stories. Every piece I create begins with a quiet moment, a memory, a walk in nature, or a feeling I want to hold onto. Through clay, I explore those moments using hand-built forms, painted imagery, symbols, texture, and small details that invite people to slow down and discover their own stories within each piece. My practice is inspired by the beauty of everyday life, and by the idea that the things we make can become little worlds filled with meaning.
In my upcoming course, Clay Stories: Hand-Building Meaningful Ceramic Pieces, I'll guide you through my complete creative process, from finding inspiration and developing your own personal symbols to hand-building, decorating, and finishing a ceramic piece that feels uniquely yours.
Whether your story comes from a cherished memory, a favourite place, nature, or simply your imagination, this course will help you transform those ideas into a handmade piece you'll treasure for years to come.
I can't wait to welcome you into my little world of clay and help you create one of your own.
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