What will I learn?

Spend the day designing and crafting a vibrant vase from start to finish, getting to grips with essential techniques including hand building with slabs of clay and adding decorative finishes with stains and slips.

Skill level

This hands on workshop is ideal for beginners or those with some pottery experience.

Additional information

• You can pre-order lunch from our CafeBar on the day or bring lunch with you

About Dee Barnes

Dee Barnes is a ceramic artist based in Grantham, Lincolnshire, known for her expertise in traditional hand-building techniques such as coiling and slab work. Working primarily with earthenware clay, she enhances her pieces with underglazes, lustres, and oxides, creating one-of-a-kind, functional, and highly decorated ceramics.

Drawing inspiration from diverse sources like 15th-century pottery, Sèvres vases, Staffordshire figurines, and daily life, Dee’s work combines historical influences with imaginative storytelling. Alongside her practice, she is an experienced ceramics tutor, valuing the mutual enrichment of teaching and making.

Access Information - Workshop

When you enter the Hub, head to the shop reception and a Visitor Experience Assistant will be able to show you to the room.

The workshop is on the ground floor, you can see a picture of the room below.

The workshop is temperature controlled and well lit.

You are close to all toilet facilities, also on the ground floor. You will have access to two disabled toilets.

You are welcome to take drinks or snacks into the workshop if required.

If you would like to talk to a member of staff about access, please email info@hub-sleaford.org.uk or call 01529 308710.