Midlands
The Midlands branch is our longest-established (since 2001) and most active BPCG branch, holding regular workshops throughout the year.
Contact for the Midlands Branch workshops is Angela Smith - to book your place or for general inquiries.
Workshop Programme
Come and meet your fellow clayers at these friendly workshops, which are held every two months, generally on a Sunday between 10am - 4pm at:
Longdon, Rugeley, Staffordshire WS15 4PN (Click to open in Google Maps)
£25 for British Polymer Clay Guild Members - £30 for non-members
£5 for non-workshop clay and play.
Our first meeting in 2020 will be on Saturday 22nd February where we’ll playing with extruders and our next meeting will be on Sunday 15th March, theme to be confirmed.
Contact us for more details.

 TartletsThese are created at a workshop held in Lichfield. Ready made canes being used for the pineapple, orange and banana slices. The cherries and strawberries are handmade
(with liquid clay as juice) and acrylic texture paste as cream. |
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 Roast Beef DinnerComplex due to number of individual components and also the cane to represent the ‘rare cooked beef. Gravy again coloured liquid clay. |
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 Prep BoardThe knife and dish are bought items (no point reinventing the wheel when they are readily available). All other items created from clay and assembled to represent a stew being prepared |
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 Baked Potato with Tuna SaladTuna is grated clay lightly bonded with liquid clay to retain texture. Liquid clay is also used (coloured yellow) to represent melted butter. All other pieces are of blended fimo clay |
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 LeeksThese use a Skinner blend of three colours. Then slices are used to build up the individual leek. |
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 Ham SaladAgain comprised of several components. Ham is an assembled cane from various ‘ham’ coloured clay. Ready made canes for egg, tomato and cucumber |
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 Cream CakesThese I have had to do from memory as I cannot eat cakes so buying them to model is wasteful for me. All formed from clay, chocolate icing is coloured liquid clay. Cream again is acrylic texture paste. I had to devise a method for creating the cream horn. |
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 CannelloniAfter blending pasta coloured clay I used an extruder to form the empty tubes. Fillings are blends of grated clay to represent the meat and ricotta/spinach The sauces are coloured liquid clay |
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 ApplesThis is a crate of Granny Smiths. Apple is a blended clay for main colour with dusting of artists' chalk pastels for the colour around the stalk. |
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