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Welcome to Port Isaac Bay

Barbara holds courses throughout the year that are suitable for beginners and advanced potters. These will run from 10.am to 5pm daily with lunch included. For details of B&B in the area please look in our Hotels and Guesthouses section.

Barbara Bell MA PGCE is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London and City University, London. She is an experienced ceramics teacher who was teaching GCSE,A-Level,City & Guilds and Foundation ceramics at St. Austell College in Cornwall until July 2001. Before that she was a ceramics teacher in Higher Education, City & Guilds and Special Needs education at Croydon and Greenwich Colleges in London.

Since her new purpose-built studio was finished in 2002, Barbara has concentrated on developing her own distinctive work (based principally on the rocks and landscape her studio overlooks).

Barbara’s 3-dimensional work is hand-built with stoneware grogged clay, sometimes with paper-fibre additions, these are decorated with terra sigillata slip, burnished and smoke fired or coated with a raku glaze. She also works with her own recipe of paperclay to produce flat wall pieces.

All glaze and slip recipes are Barbara’s own, products of a year’s research into clay and glazes during her time at Goldsmiths and Croydon Colleges.