THE SECRET COLORS OF LANDS

Elisabetta, sculptress

With this experience I'm offering an evocative journey through the ages. I'll show you the manufacturing of soils and of their colors. I'll tell you and I'll let you try, manually, the fascinating working technique used by the potters of the Roman times. They were considered as great artists, so much that their artworks were valued as gold! I'll guide you through the handmade creation of small jewels and other objects of your choice. You can bring them with you, or better, I'll send them to you once they are fired. Through this workshop you'll find out the connections of our territory with the ancient past. This is in fact characterized by the population of “Stabiae” (the current Castellammare di Stabia), which was the favorite “holiday destination” of patricians. If weather permits, we'll work open air with a panoramic view on the Naples Gulf, with the majestic Vesuvio in front of us.

CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, Na

CLAY AND NATURE IN POSITANO

Elisabetta, sculptress

Immersed in the luxuriant and wild nature that this territory still offers in abundance. Along the hills cordillera of the Peninsula, going down towards the breath-taking coasts. There where at sunrise and sunset you can spot dolphins jumping through the waves. Among so much beauty, we'll find the inspiration, in its harmonious geometries and in the perfume of its colors. We'll create objects by using clay gathered exactly in these places. We'll immerse ourselves in moments where the nature will create with us, filling ourselves with its most luxuriant expression. We'll shape our precious artworks in an upland in front of a 360° view. We'll decorate by observing the geometry of a leaf or using the streaked surface of a shell found on the cliffs. Listening the symphony of the breeze among the branches in a little clearing. In the evening we'll fire our objects relaxing ourselves around the fire. This creative path will occur at the “Rifugio La Selva” in Positano. It's an evocative place with the slopes of Montepertuso behind his back. The perfect location for this workshop that will accompany us for a full day.

POSITANO, Sa

FROM PRIMITIVE TO ROMAN POTTERY

Elisabetta, sculptress

In this experience I propose an evocative journey through the centuries, on the working of the land and its colors. I will tell you about and let you try both the primitive ceramic techniques and the fascinating method of processing and decoration that the potters of the time used in ancient Rome. The workshop will last a whole day and includes an exit to the local ceramic museum where we will observe the various archaeological finds found in the area, which we will reproduce in the afternoon. We will then take a walk in nature to collect the raw material, the clay, necessary for the creation of ceramic objects. Back in the laboratory, after a lunch that if you want we can do together in a restaurant near the laboratory where you eat all local products, I will teach you how to clean and make the collected earth suitable for processing, and then move on to modeling the clay. I will guide you in making small jewels or other objects of your choice by hand., I will explain how cooking with the primitive oven works, which we will simulate in the laboratory in my traditional oven. The next day you can go to collect the cooked items, or alternatively they will be sent to you.

PIANO DI SORRENTO, Na