February 2010 Calendar

Feb 28th 3-hour drop-in pottery workshop 2-5pm €30 (and all attendees get a €30 voucher redeemable against a full term or weekend course.
Feb 27th The Skyscraper Lamp: Children's one-day workshop €50
Feb 28th Sunday all day life drawing session: €60

March 2010 Calendar

March 20-21st Clowning for Adults with Marcus Bale €120
Digital film making for the web and DVD €240
Stained Glass with Michael Ray €200
3-hour drop-in pottery class Sunday March 28th 2-5pm €30 (and you get a €30 voucher of a full term-time course)
 

April 2010 Calendar

Summer Term Pottery course: April 13th for 10 weeks - Tues/Weds 6.45pm or Weds/Thurs 9.30am - €290
Summer Term Creative Writing: April 15th for 8 weeks - Thurs 7-9.30pm €200
Summer Term Adult Drama course: April 14th for 8 weeks €200 - Weds 7-9.30pm
Childrens Arts and Crafts Summer Term April 13th for 10 weeks - Tues 3.30-5pm €150
April 18 'The Invented City' Childrens' one-day workshop €40
April 24-25 Creative Wellbeing: Explore your personal Narrative €200
April 24-25 Costume Jewellery-making €200
April 24-25 Introduction to Ceramics €200

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specialising in pottery, art, drawing and painting, film animation, glass fusing and stained glass, jewellery-making, bronze casting, creative writing, drama, painting and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties.

Since 2001, we have provided classes and courses to suit all levels of skill and experience ranging from the complete beginner through to exhibitor standard and the school has become the largest and most established centre of its kind in Ireland. We stock a wide selection of clays and glazes, our pottery courses cover the full range of ceramics and sculpting techniques.
Kinsale is internationally renowned for its cuisine, its cosmopolitan style and the beauty of its harbour. There are many excellent pubs and restaurants in the town, as well as a wide range of art and craft shops. What better place to learn a craft, or take a break.

Adrian Wistreich, Ceramic Artist.
After more than 20 years of corporate life in London, working as a publisher and research consultant, I left the rat-race to pursue my ambition of becoming an artist and teacher. I completed a diploma in Ceramics and Design at Hackney College of Art, London, moved to Kinsale with my family and set-up the Kinsale Pottery and Art School.

My desire to teach comes from my experience as a communicator, I have learned to find and stimulate the artist in us all, regardless of our experience of art.

I tend to be sculptural in my own work drawing on a love of form and texture through smoke-fired abstract ceramic pieces and studies of people. I have increasingly brought colour to my work developing my own stoneware glazes, which are available for students to try out. I want to break down the barriers between traditional craft skills and the apparent inaccessibility of fine art