Clay: The Process is the Product, with Natalie Charles
Schedule
Fri Jun 26 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
OPEN Ealing | London, EN
Led by artist and animator Natalie Charles.
About this Event
26 Jun 2026, 18:30 – 20:30
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14 School Ln, Dickens Yard, Ealing, W5 2TD
The Final Event of our Ubuntu Spirit Creative Series, a series of monthly creative workshops in Ealing bringing people together through creativity, reflection and shared experience. Scroll down for more on these events.
✨Clay Art Community Workshop✨
Join us for a clay workshop designed to help you slow down and explore who you are, as part of our Creative Art Series - led by multidisciplinary artist and animator, Natalie Charles.
This session, The Process is the Product, invites you to focus on making without pressure or expectation. Natalie will guide you as you build a small, palm-sized piece using elements that feel relevant or important to you as a person. Working with clay can feel grounding and absorbing, offering a way to switch off, use your hands and settle into the moment. You’ll leave with your own handmade piece to take home.
You'll be guided and helped, with space to follow your own ideas and work intuitively.
Examples and reference materials will also be available for inspiration. Open to all, no experience needed.
What to expect
• A guided clay building session led by a community-focused artist
• Option to follow the personal-element theme or go your own way
• All materials provided, including clay, tools, bags for transporting pieces home, and more
• A range of visual references and inspiration available
• A relaxed, supportive and social atmosphere
• Chilled background music throughout the session
• Time to create at your own pace
Refreshments
Tea, soft drinks and light snacks will be available.
About the facilitator
Natalie Charles
Natalie’s work explores personal archives and quiet, everyday moments, drawing on family stories, collected objects and ancestral connections. Her approach invites reflection, offering a thoughtful and accessible way to connect with your own memories and inner experience through making.
We’re excited to collaborate with Natalie for the first time, bringing her experience of leading workshops across a range of creative spaces into our series.
Find out more about Natalie and her work here:
www.ncharles.art
IG: ncharles.art
✨ Part of the Ubuntu Spirit Creative Series✨
A monthly programme in Ealing bringing people together through creativity, reflection and shared experience.
Running from March to June 2026 on the last Friday of each month, each session explores a different creative practice to support wellbeing and connection, in a relaxed and welcoming space.
Other sessions in the series include:
• Friday 27th March – Vision Board Creation
• Friday 24th April – Chill & Paint
• Friday 22nd May – Sound Bath & Art Therapy
• Friday 26th June – Clay: The Process is the Product
Each session can be attended individually, or as part of the full series. This will be our final event.
Where is it happening?
OPEN Ealing, Unit 14 Dickens Yard, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 18.00 to GBP 24.54
