Mother and daughters workshop

Ceramics workshop at Lies van Huet’s on Saterday, 16 February 2013. Each year we select a joint activity to spice up our sistersday, next to having coffee, shopping and food. This year we choose for a ceramics workshop. None of us had ever done this before, so we just let it happen. Lies’ studio is in de Blokhuispoort , the former prison. In itself this is a very nice place. We were welcomed with coffee/tea and a treat. A short tour of the studio and explanation on clay and applied techniques. The necessities were there, and after a brief explanation of Lies on the technique to apply, we could start right away . First we made a hollow touchstone  ​​and then a bowl. The bowl is made with the same technique as the touchstone, a nice exercise in advance, and we passed it on to the person next to us. Idea behind this: the person next to me adds something to my bowl that shows the link between us . That may be something symbolic . My mother made us all a link that she put at the edge of the bowl . She thus symbolized that she is the linking pin between her daughters and daughters-in-law. My little sister made a star on the rim of my sister’s bowl with which she wanted to indicate that she can make people shine. I got a weightlifting weight (no idea how to describe it otherwise) from my sister on the rim of my bowl to indicate she thinks I am powerful. My sister-in-law put a music note on my sister’s bowl because she likes singing. And thus we all five, had the same yet very own and unique bowl at the end of the workshop. The time flew by. We all five agreed that it had been a very pleasant, creative and relaxing workshop. Lies responds to the group of people she works with, by which the workshop just gets that little bit of extra, Andrea van der Ploeg