THE CLAY TABLE

Owner

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Corina worked as film producer and film festivals organiser for 15 years. She started making ceramics in 2020, has followed various courses and has dived into the traditional Korean wheel throwing ceramics techniques which she learned from master Kwak Kyungtae in Icheon (SK).

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Corina

I enjoy designing activities that are custom made for our clients and I am passionate about hosting and making The Clay Table a studio where anyone would feel most welcome to come in to try the incredible creativity available in working with clay and pottery.

In my own practice I love combining both techniques in making functional ceramics ware and art pieces.​

Pottery painting instructor, 

studio assistant

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Nierika studied Communication Design at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. She now works as a freelance graphic designer and she designs and hosts crafts workshops in a variety of techniques, including ceramics.

 

Nierika
In graphic design projects I can be creative, but in a very specific and limited way. That’s why I love being in spaces where ideas are free and creativity can grow. For more than two years, I’ve been leading craft workshops for both children and adults, and I truly enjoy bringing out the creativity in everyone. I’m always curious about new materials, which is how I found The Clay Table during a seven-week ceramics course… and never left.

Ceramics instructor
 

Luisa, the face behind siebentagestudio, is a German-Dutch artist who earned her Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design with a focus on illustration at PBSA in Düsseldorf. Her love for ceramics began through a friend, which inspired her to further explore this fascinating art form and ultimately led her to create an almost 40-piece ceramic installation for her final thesis project. She is currently working as an intern at The Clay Table, where she continues to develop her passion for ceramics and refine her skills.

 

What Luisa finds especially appealing about ceramics is the vast range of techniques and the opportunity to creatively experiment. Her favorite methods include hand-building and the use of underglazes, which allow her to create beautiful color nuances and effects reminiscent of watercolor painting.

Co-initiator
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Jordana graduated in 2020 as primary school teacher and for a while combined teaching in school with teaching ceramics. Exploring her natural talent for entrepreneurship, she decided to start Jordana Ceramics., her own studio in The Hague.

Teacher

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Mijke is a ceramics artist with 15+ years of experience in teaching pottery on the potter’s wheel and handbuilding. She studied art at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten.

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Mijke
I am passionate about ceramics and teaching. I like to create unique pieces, thrown on the wheel or hand build. I am enjoying all aspects of making, from a lump of clay to a cup or vase, to exploring developing my own glazes. As a teacher I like to motivate people to find their own expression in clay, always teaching with a practical and imaginative approach.

Teacher

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Lillian is an artist and potter from Aruba with Colombian roots. She studied Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam 2012 to 2016. She speaks Spanish, Papiamentu, Dutch and English.

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Lillian

My way of working is very experimental and playful. While studying art at Rietveld Academy, I once got to sit behind a potter's wheel and I was hooked! So I taught myself how to throw and started experimenting more with ceramics on and off the wheel.
Currently, aside from my own artist practice, I teach wheel throwing at Jordana Ceramics Studio and I give creative workshops at primary schools. ​

I enjoy teaching kids and adults and I do my best to stimulate their creativity. I like to encourage a playful and curious attitude.

I find it specially important for children in this day and age to work with their hands and not let their imagination fade away. Also, one can learn a lot of life lessons from ceramics.​

Ceramics instructor, studio assistant

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Ania is a Polish artist based in The Hague. She graduated from the Fine Arts department at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and is currently a resident of the

(   )In the mountain collective in de Besturing. She speak English and Polish.

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Ania

Heya!

In my artistic practice I make installation work combining ceramics and metal, clay with bioplastic, etc. The core of my work has always been imagination induced visuals. I love using clay as a sculptural material in a playful and boundryless way; a tool in building sincere and magical worlds. I also love crafts and trinkets.

Teacher

Alice graduated in 2002 in business and worked for 16 years in France in the world of brand design and communication as a pilar between clients and creative teams. In her current work as a potter she develops her own line of products and teaching hand building and wheel throwing. She works in The Netherlands and France for restaurants and architects.

 

Alice
Bonjour,

After years of being fascinated with ceramics, I finally put my hands in clay in 2018 in Brittany with a particular wheel throwing course with the inspiring ceramist Nathalie Dérouet whose work I had  followed for years. Overwhelmed by the emotion that this material gave me, I started again the next day trying to keep this emotion intact. 

After years of trainings I opened my own studio in France with the obstinacy to create my own path with clay. 

My work is technical and precise, but balanced with sincerity, authenticity and spontaneity.  ​

Junior studio tech​nician

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Zizi studied architecture at the University of Ioannina, Greece and moved to the Netherlands to pursue an MA in Industrial Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
During her studies, she discovered and fell in love with ceramics, and more specifically with materiality - the origin of raw materials, and the ceramics industry in general. Her research work focuses on creating an archive of organic materials which can be used for making ceramics glazes.

Zizi 

What I truly enjoy about ceramics and developing glaze recipes is the process of trial and error. Experimenting with techniques and ideas that may not always work. After all, in ceramics there is no such thing as failure, only learning.

Teacher

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Deandra graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (KABK) with a bachelor's degree in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design. She currently teaches in the Kunstplan program at KABK. Deandra is also part of Studio Sososo, a studio dedicated to transforming the fashion landscape through innovative approaches. Community-based activities are important to her, and she get involves in pop-up events to connect with the local community.​