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Meet some of our online students in our blog pages

​In our blog pages, we share the work and interesting information about some of our students. We have highly qualified students, we have students who may become online teachers, we have students that made it big in the international art world.

​Claire Beck - Raku and mixed media
Claire is a ceramic artist from Nerang in Australia who likes to mix and combine materials. She started weaving natural fibres onto her raku creations. This moved to combining natural timber with raku and now she uses found metal objects with raku. In her words, "I find raku goes with everything!".

​Kathlyn Avila-Reyes - Painting on clay sculptures
Kathlyn is and artist from Alexandria in Virginia who taught art for 30 years in the Fairfax County public schools. She says that color, pattern, and texture intrigues her which promotes an open playground for ceramics and the ability to explore many of its possibilities. ​She is inspired by people and her figures embody “familiar souls” that viewers can recognize regardless of where or when they grew up. Each one of her figure sculptures is an expression of a unique individual, whose story is told through adornment, symbolism, and gesture.

Patricia Neysens - Handbuilding, slip casting, dipping and paper molds
Patricia is a ceramic artist with a PhD in applied biological science. She is from Sint-Truiden in Belgium and states that for the making of her works, she relies on a mix of techniques like handbuilding, slip casting, dipping and the use of paper molds to make individual elements which are assembled into an intuitive final pattern. 

​Mark Goudy - translucency and water soluble metal salts
Mark is a fine art porcelain artist from Berkeley in California. He has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and has 20 years experience in the computer graphic industry as logic design Engineer. His current process is handbuilding ceramic forms, joining sections of curved parabolic surfaces that he creates using purpose-built plaster hump molds.