Founder, instructor

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​Hoi hoi,
Thanks for checking our team page!

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My motivation in starting The Clay Table was creating a multifaceted ceramics studio where people can chose between many types of activities and a place where we focus on making people feel welcomed with generosity and hospitality.

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I very much enjoy designing custom made ceramics activities for our clients and I teach both wheel throwing and handbuilding classes. In my own ceramics practice I love combining both techniques in making functional and decorative pieces.

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I look forward to welcoming you at The Clay Table!

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Corina Burlacu worked as film producer and film festivals organiser for 15 years. She is Romanian, lives in The Hague since 2009 and speaks Romanian, English and Dutch. 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).

Instructor

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Hi there! 

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. 

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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.

 

I look forward to growing and exploring them with you in my classes.

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Lillian Vlaun 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.

Graphic designer

 

I think art is one of the things that makes life worth living. I have a day job in a big media corporation where I get to be creative in a very specific, limited way. I love the opportunity to also exist in a space where people make beautiful (sometimes weird) ceramic things from scratch, objects you can see growing in their hands in real time in front of your very eyes. I specifically love trying to capture this magic via 2D graphic design and I’m grateful to be able to put my passion for design to good use, to help build a pocket of space that I find so important in the world. 

 

I look forward to more beautiful and weird objects and projects! 

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Patricia has a BA in History of Art from University of Birmingham and an MRES in Arts and Culture from Leiden University, with a specialism in socially engaged art. She has worked in museums, galleries and festivals in various parts of the world before deciding the art world is a scam. She has been living in The Netherlands for seven years and is now working for Paramount. 

Founder, instructor
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Hi! In the summer of 2018 I took my first ceramics workshop, during a holiday in Portugal, and I was hooked. Back in The Netherlands, I followed a wheel throwing course and I have never stopped since. 
In my recent works I like to experiment with finding materials in nature and incorporating them into my ceramics.

My background as a primary school teacher, a personal drive in being an entrepreneur and the fascination with making ceramics have combined in starting my own business.

I am looking forward to meeting you at The Clay Table!

Jordana Basjes 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 her own studio in The Hague where she has worked with hundreds of beginners and more advanced pottery hobbyists.

Social media, studio assistant

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Hola!

 

The "make it look pretty" boss has arrived. I'm the social media lead, and a craft fanatic, Gen Z edition. I collect brushes, threads, notebooks, journals, stamps, and anything you can imagine to create all sorts of artistic projects. 

As part of my journey adapting to a new culture after moving to the Netherlands, I became obsessed with a new hobby: ceramics. It took me two years to finally take the step and give it a try, but once I discovered The Clay Table, there was no turning back. Every now and then, you will see me painting, and you might find some of my colourful and quirky creations around the studio. I am looking forward to growing our ceramics skills together!

 

Laura Pinilla is a Corporate Communicator and Marketing Specialist who graduated in 2020 in her home country, Colombia. Her experience focuses on social media management, SEO, branding, and internal communication. She speaks English, Spanish, and a bit of Dutch.

Teacher

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. 

Back to my real life, I decided to follow a wheel throwing course and rethink my future. I met a lot of potters and began training to make ceramics my passion, my job, my life. 

Two years later I opened my own studio in France with the obstinacy to create my own path with clay, experimentations, own glazes and materials found in nature, with freedom of expression. 

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

Before this shift I worked for 16 years in the world of brand design and communication as a pilar between clients and creative teams. These intense years taught me rigor, organisation, sense of contact, respect for people and creativity, love of words, meanings and sense. 

 

I am happy to share my sensitivity at The Clay Table!

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Alice Lamarque Foray graduated in 2002 in business and worked for 16 years in communication. In her current work as a potter she develops her own line of products and she is teaching handbuilding and wheel throwing. She works in The Netherlands and France for restaurants and architects.

Instructor

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Hey,
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. 

I am looking forward to welcoming you in one of my classes.

 

Mijke Anink 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.

Instructor

 

Hello! I am an artist from Indonesia, currently living in The Hague. My work takes the form of spatial physical poetry, serving as an embodiment of artistic research. By merging art, design, and architecture, I create a language for them to coexist. I explore design possibilities through physical experiments, poetry, choreography, drawings, and model making. Since 2018, I have been moving, sculpting, performing, playing, and experimenting with clay/ceramics—and I haven’t stopped since. I find clay to be one of the most sincere materials to work with. I’m excited to explore art together!

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Deandra Jauw 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.