Ceramic Fox Sculptures with Mark Bradley

9.30am to 4.30pm ish 

£120 Lunch and fresh coffee included
Material Charges: £45 inc clay and two firings (see below NOTE*)

Sculpt your own beautiful seated Ceramic Fox, with Mark Bradley 

New for 2026  - we're delighted to welcome Mark back to Greystoke for another season- and new for this year, in additio to his beauitful 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

* NOTE : As fans of 'Pottery Throwdown'  know well - putting anything into the hands of the 'kiln gods' is a risk.  They're an unpredictable lot, and sometimes things go wrong and carefully sculpted pieces can be damaged with small cracks appearing during the firing process.  Or badly wrong even - very occasionally pieces may even explode!  If breakages occur, repairs will of course be attempted.   Although rare, students should understand this is 'part and parcel' of working with Ceramics and kilns, and there is no guarantee their workshop piece will turn out perfect or in tact.   

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

Friday 6th March 2026 ~ Thursday 9th July 2026 (2026 dates bookable from Nov 3rd '25 ) 

Typically this course runs with around  6-7 students.   

Please bring:  Please bring your £45 materials money in cash which covers all materials, tutor costs and tutor time, both pre and post workshop. Students also need to bring something to protect their clothes.