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Ceramic Fox Sculptures with Mark Bradley

Sculpt your own beautiful seated Ceramic Fox, with Mark Bradley.

Event Date

12 November 2026

This event will also happen on the following dates:

Thursday 12 Nov 2026
Saturday 06 Mar 2027
Friday 16 Apr 2027
Thursday 22 Jul 2027

£ 125

Description

We're delighted to welcome Mark back to Greystoke for another season and new for this year, in addition to his beautiful hare, he will be offering a Fox workshop on the new QW Programme.

Enjoy a busy and absorbing day being guided through the many processes involved in creating these amazing foxes. Each fox will be unique, with its own quirks and personality - and towards the end of the class you can choose to create a smoother finish for it, or more textured as in the main photo - or any permutation in between. The choice is yours. Each fox will be roughly 30cm (1ft) when finished.

Mark will provide all the equipment and materials needed to create your lovely sculpture in just one day - you only need to bring along shirt or apron to protect your clothes and your materials money below. Once finish the foxes will be very carefully transported back to Mark studio to be slowly air dried. After around a month they will be ready for bisque firing. In the hope they survive the kiln, Mark will the apply the various oxides to highlight the body, snout, ears and brush particularly, before then firing for a second time.

The colouring is with oxides, students can choose to skip this stage if they wish, and Mark can return them either bisque,or fired twice, which turns the clay into stoneware.

The foxes will hopefully be ready for collection back at Greystoke within 4 to 6 weeks of the class. Sometimes, in damp conditions, this can take take longer.

This course will usually take place in the ground floor Squirrel Barn with three steps up from the gravel driveway.

This class is suitable for every standard of student from beginners upwards.