Enamels & Lustre Workshop
Pather Artworks, Wishaw
Friday 13 & 27 March 2026, 6pm – 9pm
£60 for both workshops
Let’s start with the most basic question: What, exactly, is gold lustre? Lustre is an overglaze, meaning that it’s applied over the vitrified, glaze-fired piece and requires a third firing. Lustre is made of particles of real gold suspended in a liquid medium, usually a pine oil resin. After being applied to your piece, it’s fired in order to burn off the organic binder. What remains is a layer of real, melted gold on your piece. This is very different than gold leaf, which is applied with adhesive and isn’t fired; lustres are permanently fired onto your piece.
In the form of glazes and enamels, thin glass coatings are deposited on pottery, glass and metal surfaces for aesthetic reasons and also to tighten porous bodies and harden their surfaces. In this chapter, the preparation, composition, coloration, thermal expansion, micro- and nano-structures of these glass coatings are first surveyed. Attention is in particular paid to the optimization of thermal expansion matching upon cooling and heating, wetting properties and softening temperatures. In addition, the thinness of the coatings requires specific colouration techniques by pigments or metal nano-particles.
Summer Solstice Workshops
Pather Artworks, Wishaw
Friday 17 & 24 July 2026, 6pm – 8pm
Pather Artworks is having two celebration workshops as a thank you to class members for their continued support to the pottery. It’s a chance for folk to try out something different and out of the ordinary in two 2 hour workshops. This is a FREE closed event for Pather Artworks class members.
Contacting Us
If you would like to contact us for more information or to book a workshop, please call us on 01698 274545 or send us an email.