Description
Ceramics inspired by nature
Craft your own botanical clay patterns: let your creativity flourish
Botanical Vase
Botanically inspired hand-built vase workshop
Sunday 15 September 10am – 12.30pm
Tuesday 24 September 10am – 12.30pm
Botanical Plate
Back by popular demand – create your own printed leaf plate
Thursday 7 November 10am – 12pm
Sunday 10 November 1pm – 3pm
Green Man Tile
An old age symbol of seasonal renewal and ecological awareness
Sunday 2 March 2025 10am – 12.30pm
Join ceramicist Jane McCulla for a hands-on practical workshop at The Kiosk in the Botanic Gardens. In each workshop Jane will demonstrate how to imprint botanical textures onto clay, hand-building techniques (vase or plate) and how to make a botanically-inspired Green Man tile. Jane will take care of the glazing and firing and two weeks later you’ll collect a glazed vase/plate or tile imprinted with botanical patterns and suitable for everyday use.
Tutor Jane McCulla
A ceramic artist, Jane McCulla graduated as a mature student with a 1st Class BA Hons in Fine & Applied Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006. Immigrating to NZ with her family in 2009, she established a homebased studio in Riverton, Southland, supplying galleries with her ceramic pieces. A year later, she moved north to Christchurch.
Jane creates textured, stretched, stoneware clay vessels and forms at her home-based studio in Diamond Harbour, Canterbury. She imbues fluid textures on her stoneware pieces, suggesting geology, archaeology, and mankind’s marks on the landscape, fluxed over time.
Teaching classes and workshops throughout NZ, she also undertakes both private and public commissions, including the Lyttel People Land Art Mandala in Albion Square, Lyttelton. For over 7 years, she was involved as a Regional Council Member and Vice President of Ceramics Association of NZ.
In 2017, Jane completed a seven-week residency at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of the world in China.
Her ceramics have been featured in various publications and exhibited in both solo and national shows in London, UK, Ireland, and NZ. Her pieces are held in both private and public collections worldwide, and she has received several awards, including a Portage Merit Award in 2013.
Take a peek at some of Jane’s creations on her facebook page
Join us at The Kiosk, Christchurch Botanic GardensTe Māra Huaota o Waipapa
(Just over the footbridge from the Armagh St carpark). Free parking is available for the duration.
Tel: 366 6937
Email: office@chsgardens.co.nz
Facebook event link
Costs & Payment
$65 Members & Friends of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
$80 Non-Members
Price includes all materials and self-serve tea, coffee and biscuits
Please bring along an apron or wear clothing that you are happy to get a spot or two of clay on.
Become a Member of the CHS and receive up to 30% off all our courses and workshops
Please note, our courses are aimed at adults. If you are under 18 please contact us before booking so we can check with our tutors. Nga mihi, CHS team
