*Gallery Gitanjali is delighted to introduce Ceramic Workshops for Children and Adults with Saraswati, co-founder of the White Peacock Clay Club at Auroville.*
*Play with Clay for Children* (8-15 years old) will be held on 27-30 April from 3-6 pm *Clay Play for Adults *will be held on 27-30 April from 10 am -12 pm A variety of Handbuilding techniques (pinchpot, slab building, press moulding ) and surface treatment (stamping, texturing, clay application etc.) along with Surface decoration and coloring (sgraffito, masking techniques, drawing with latex resist etc.) will be introduced. For further information and registration call 9823572035 or write in to us at gallerygitanj...@gmail.com *It's important to be present on both weekends as this is a continuous process.* *About Saraswati :* Saraswati's works offer a window from which we can take an imaginative leap to the free spirited world of our childhood. The pieces playfully pique interest through their quirky presence and subtle details, capturing the intimacy of her process ,while harnessing her lively energy and intuitive style . She achieves stunning results with her experimental merging of form and colour, mixing oxydes , glazes and underglazes like an alchemist and using materials ranging from Paperclay to Stoneware to Porcelain with metal, wood and glass. Born in Russia, into a family that lived and breathed ceramics, Saraswati began to work with clay at the age of 12 and has been in love with it ever since. Starting off young, under the tutelage of her ceramicist mother, Anna in Russia, Renata would spend time watching her stepfather, a still-life photographer, create still life compositions in every corner of the house , using ceramics to substitute what he couldn't find in objects. She is the co-founder of the *White Peacock Clay Club* at *Auroville* with her mother Anna who works at intricate paintings on porcelain and is now joined by her daughter , Masha, who sculpts characters from Russian fairy tales using ceramic. Saraswati's works reflect a desire to not just use ceramic art as a metaphor for various aspects of the human experience but also to transport us to a transcendental space where we begin to see that the material world is only one among many realities open to human awareness. *For further information and registration call 9823572035 or write to us at gallerygitanj...@gmail.com <gallerygitanj...@gmail.com>* , IMG_20170406_145801.jpg <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzFl8bl3ZW_aODFsSHVBdGl2b3c/view?usp=drive_web> IMG_20170406_145801.jpg <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzFl8bl3ZW_aRHlzRF9pMjk5MWs/view?usp=drive_web> Alissa Franco Gallery Gitanjali E-212,31st January Road, Fontainhas,Panjim, Goa-403001 India www.gallerygitanjali.com