A group of keen sculptors spent last weekend creating human sculptures from clay at Keirunga Gardens under the tutelage of Kay Bazzard.
In her experience, learning by doing is the best way to absorb the skills and methods with a tactile thing such as forming a figure out of clay, she says.
"It is important to me that the people who attend my workshops go away with the knowledge of how to create a sculpture in clay and that they could go on to make more, knowing how it is done."
The challenge for most workshop participants, she says, is to make a figurative study which is in proportion and expresses a mood or pose they are after, usually a photograph of something they admire, which requires visual observation of anatomy, movement, features and expression.
