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Xialou Guo author filmaker and academic in conversation with writer Margie Orford. Please go to the contact page to enquire about tickets.
On June 25th, we welcome groundbreaking novelist Eimear McBride, who will be in conversation with Josh Cohen.
We will be potting for 24 hours to raise £10,000 for Intoart.
Intoart is a pioneering visual arts organisation committed to equity, visibility and social justice, led by the creative ambition of learning disabled and autistic people as artists and designers. Their full-time studio programme spans art, design and craft and is an alternative art school committed to access to long-term creative practice. We aim to raise £10,000 to support direct costs of a day a week in the studio for a year.
Come and join us on Sunday 12 - 4pm to join in the Clay Relay.
Make a donation to join in - make a small hand built pot with us or just come, donate, and give moral support!
We are excited to present celebrated novelist and journalist Andrew O'Hagan, who will be in conversation with novelist, short fiction writer and popular Conversations regular Ardu Vakil on Wednesday April 9th.
Andrew's many books include classics of non-fiction such as The Missing and The Secret Life and seven novels, including The Illuminations, Mayflies and of course 2024's seminal state-of-the-nation epic Caledonian Road.
Please contact us by email to get tickets for this event . Drinks and Food provided, no admittance without RSVP
Tessa Hadley & Nikita Lalwani
Art by Tim Braden
Come to our Open Studio, with Ceramics from The Mews Coachworks, plus our neighbours in the mews, Christa Davis, Wilder Botanics and guest star Dandy Star
Conversations with Writers -Simon Schama in Conversation with Josh Cohen
Conversations with Writers - Adam Phillips with Devorah Baum
Hannah Sullivan and Ardashir Vakil
Join us this Autumn for our Open Studio
The Mews Coachworks is home to member ceramicists and writers. This is an exciting opportunity to visit our space, talk to our makers, hear about our ceramics classes, and purchase some of our work.
Wednesday 18th September 7pm SOLD OUT
Ceramics Evening Classes. A 9 week course of hand building and throwing for all levels. Small groups on Tuesdays 6.30pm to 9.30pm, £390 including materials and firing Classes are run by Daf Price,an experienced teacher and potters.
Students sign up for all 9 evening classes , we are unable to offer refunds or make up classes for missed sessions.
Please register your interest for future classes on the contact page. Thank you
A 9 week course of hand building and throwing for all levels.
( 9 consecutive sessions
This class is run by Clare Palmer and experienced teacher and wonderfully creative ceramicist.
Small groups of no more than 8 in our working studio in Kensal Rise.
Students sign up for all 9 evening classes , we are unable to offer refunds or make up classes for missed sessions.
£390 for 9 weeks course, including materials and firing
Please register your interest for future classes on the contact page. Thank you
Learn how to create a hand painted lampshade from Master Craftsman Alvaro Picardo
You will be provided with paint, brush, tape measure and lampshade, and guided by Alvaro to paint your own lampshade.
£125 for the 3 hour session including lampshade.
Please contact us via the contact page to register your interest.
About Alvaro Picardo
Constantly inspired by his Catalan and Spanish roots, together with his love of modern art and brutalist architecture, Spanish designer and craftsman Alvaro Picardo started painting lampshades with the aim of giving new life to otherwise forgotten objects, creating bespoke interior-design pieces. Through daring, colourful and hand-painted lampshades he aims to provide a distinctive feeling to any space or room, enhancing its atmosphere by adding an individual work. Each lampshade is unique: a tribute to the spirit of craftsmanship, which lies behind its particular finish, with traces of the artist’s personal handiwork visible in the finished product.
Alvaro’s work is featured in World of Interiors, House&Garden, Elle Deco.. as he is constantly working with London’s leading interior design studios like Sybil Colefax, Jonathan Reed, Buchanan Studio, Max Rollit or Douglas Mackie, to name just a few.
His most recent project is a collection of hand-painted lampshades for iconic Swedish shop Svenskt Tenn
Monday nights 6.30pm - 9.30pm - 15th January to 26th February (excluding half term week
This 6 week course is designed for all abilities, exploring hand-building techniques to create a vessel.
Student groups of maximum 8 in our working studio in Kensal Rise.
£250 including clay and firing.
Students sign up for all 6 evening classes , we are unable to offer refunds or make up classes for missed sessions.
Please register your interest for future classes on the contact page. Thank you
Course timetable
Week 1 - Demonstration of coiling, slab building and pinch pots. Build you own 3 small vessels to practice the techniques
Week 2 - Work on your own project building a vessel
Week 3 - Glaze your small pot and continue to work on your main project
Week 4 - Work on your main project and review your glazed small pot
Week 5 - Finish your pot ready for firing
Week 6 - Glaze your pot
Pinch pots
Kurinuki - Carving leather hard clay
Hand Building - Coiling a Pot
Sunday Throwing workshop with Daf Price 10am - 4.30pm 26th March 2023
A one day intensive course, 3 places for students who have some experience of working with clay and want to focus on throwing . Please contact us for more details and prices.
Sunday Throwing workshop with Daf Price 10am - 5 pm 19th March 2023
A one day intensive course with 3 places for students who have some experience of working with clay and want to focus on throwing . Please contact us for more details.
10 am- 4.30 £120 for one session
Seasonal Studio Sale featuring ceramic works by Abigail Schama, Ylana Roback , Lotts Potts, Nicole Douglas- Morris, Daf Price and Sporty Mike. Featuring hand painted lampshades by Alvaro Picardo
Join us in the studio for a festive class of wine and browse hand crafted products from all our makers.
Ceramics by Sporty Mike
Hand painted lampshades by Alvaro Picardo
Ceramics by Lotts Potts
Ceramics by Abigail Schama
Abigail Schama presents an exhibition of new ceramic works on the theme of listening and receptivity. These are displayed within her working studio, The Mews Coachworks, a female makers’ space in West London housed in the original studio of sculptor Antanas Brazdys.
These new ceramic works suggest an active hunger seeking the nourishment of speech as well as food: a rim that becomes an open beak, a vessel resembling a listening shell. They have been described by the author Margie Orford as ‘bound together by love and a fractured strength that gives them their fierce and vulnerable beauty’. The process starts at the wheel, then altered, slipped, sometimes bound, drawn or engraved upon before being fired and re-fired.
This event supports the charity Camden Psychotherapy Unit (CPU). With that in mind, the thrust of these works concerns a vessel or body having the capacity to hold and listen. They also raise critical questions of our received ideas about functionality and dysfunctionality. The event includes cocktails and food by chef Rosie Sykes, some of which is cooked in the studio’s pottery kiln.
The talk with Abigail Schama and Rosie Sykes discusses fulfillment and the creative process; making a vessel or a dish of food is not an end in itself but part of an ongoing conversation that is as much about social and emotional connection as it is about the act of creation itself. Abigail and Rosie explore the different ways craft and cooking speak to our states of emptiness and longing, especially in light of the tactile deprivations of COVID-19.
The free exhibition opens on Thursday evening, visitors must register for a ticket. The event on Sunday is a paid-for ticketed talk and lunch, in support of CPU.
Exhibition, booking not necessary - Free
Friday 8 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00
Saturday 9 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00
Talk, booking necessary - £35
Sunday 10 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00
Longhand, stream of consciousness writing, guided by Dr Margie Orford, writer and journalist
Word weaving sessions provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritise and synchronise the day at hand. They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind, and they are for your eyes only.
Morning pages of word weaving. Do not over-think it, just put anything on the page...and then do more pages tomorrow
Classes run for three days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday across two weeks.
9am - 9.45am
Week 1 January 12th, 13th 14th
Week 2 January 19th, 20th 21st
£15 per week for three sessions
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Join Margie to review our lockdown writing in Morning Pages, maybe in real life at the studio or if not on Zoom , or a combination of the two.
Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
First workshop will be £15 and each successive workshop £5 per session
If you would like to join, please make payment, email via the contact page, and the Zoom code will be sent to you
Payments can be paid via bank transfer - email for details
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option)
Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
Join Yael to watch her make Babka.
Imagine a perfect coffee break. Now imagine a perfect coffee cake.
Babka is a yeast-risen, chocolate filled treat with a rich history and tradition; a streusel topping adds textural appeal, and a light, brioche-esque crumb melts in the mouth.
https://www.thebabkaboutique.shop/shop
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Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
Workshops are £5 per session . Therefore your first workshop will be £15 and successive ones £5
If you would like to join, please make payment, email via the contact page, and the Zoom code will be sent to you
Payments can be paid via bank transfer - email for details
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option)
Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
Come Draw With Me
A workshop exploring Still Life and the art of observation.
Find a quiet space, gather four of your favourite things, dead or alive, and let’s go!
You can draw with whatever you want, charcoal, soft pencil or paint and you will need a few sheets of paper.
Any level welcome, looking forward …..
Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
Workshops are £5 per session . Therefore your first workshop will be £15 and successive ones £5
If you would like to join, please make payment, email via the contact page, and the Zoom code will be sent to you
Payments can be paid via bank transfer - email for details
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option)
Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
PURE TECH BEAUTY™. BASED ON NATURE, PERFECTED THROUGH SCIENCE.
At Elixseri, we harness the power of nature through ground-breaking science, state of the art technology, a purist approach and a little dose of magic.
Elixseri micro-biotic formulas are intelligent, targeted, clinically tested and scientifically proven, using nature to reprogram our skin to its optimal performance
Join Faiza in a personal workshop discussing skin care and serums from the Elixseri range
“I’ve been working in the cosmetics industry since leaving university over 25 years ago and I’ve worked for the likes of Givenchy, La Prairie and Aromatherapy Associates. I describe myself as a beauty minimalist - I have a pragmatic approach to beauty and skincare, which verges on the minimal!
3 years ago I founded a skincare brand, Elixseri, with 2 other industry experts. We saw that skincare was becoming more complicated and more confusing. We saw that so many skin issues were caused by simple mistakes (mainly overusing!) and so we actively promote and encourage a “back to basics” approach.
One of the joys of my job, is to advice you and to help you achieve the ultimate skin goal: healthy skin.
I would love to join you to answer any questions you may have regarding your routine, ingredients you are interested in, products you should be using. “
Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
Workshops are £5 per session . Therefore your first workshop will be £15 and successive ones £5
If you would like to join, please make payment, email via the contact page, and the Zoom code will be sent to you
Payments can be paid via bank transfer - email for details
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option)
Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
Jam Making with Alvaro Picardo - Culinary Workshop Making strawberry and Geranium jam
Make the most of wonderful seasonal British strawberries making jam with Alvaro
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” Anaïs Nin
Longhand, stream of consciousness writing, guided by Margie every weekday morning.
There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages. They are not high art. They are not even ‘writing.’ They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind, and they are for your eyes only.
Morning Pages provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritise and synchronise the day at hand. Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put anything on the page...and then do more pages tomorrow
Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
First workshop will be £15 and each successive workshop is £5 a session.
If you would like to join, please pay, then email via the contact page, and we will send the Zoom code
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option) or via the donate Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
Free Writing
Give yourself a time limit. Write for one or ten or twenty minutes, and then stop.
Keep your hand moving until the time is up. Do not pause to stare into space or to read what you've written. Write quickly but not in a hurry.
Pay no attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, neatness, or style. Nobody else needs to read what you produce here. The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
If you get off the topic or run out of ideas, keep writing anyway. If necessary, write nonsense or whatever comes into your head, or simply scribble: anything to keep the hand moving.
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that.
When the time is up, look over what you've written, and mark passages that contain ideas or phrases that might be worth keeping or elaborating on in a subsequent free-writing session
Ceramics workshop with Abigail Schama and Laura McCartney. Making Bottles.
We can coil, slab or pinch to make bottles together.
We are happy to deliver clay in North West London, Notting Hill and Marylebone area for a £10 additional fee.
Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.
First workshop will be £15 and each successive session £5.
If you would like to join, please pay, then email via the contact page, and we will send the Zoom code
Payments can be paid via bank transfer - email for details
Paypal payments to paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option)
Paypal button at the bottom of the page.
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