A world of making, learning and discovery.
Welcome. My name is Chandra Rice and I have been making things for thirty years - ceramics, ecoprinting, natural dyeing - and teaching people to do the same for most of that time. What I have come to believe, stubbornly, after all of it, is that creativity is not a talent. It is a practice. And it belongs to everyone.
Here is how to be part of what is happening.
Where would you like to begin?
A six-week residency? Ten days in Tuscany?
Or resources and a podcast from wherever you are?
All of it is here.
The Six
Ceramics Residency
Six weeks. Six ceramicists. A fully equipped studio in Tuscany and a goal you set yourself. The most immersive thing we offer — and the most transformative.
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Retreats
in Tuscany
Ten days of making — ceramics, ecoprinting, natural dyeing, jewellery, bookbinding and Italian cooking — at Il Baciarino in the Maremma. Small groups, good food and enough time for something real to happen.
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Online Studio
Resources
Technical guides for ecoprinters and natural dyers, free online calculators, the In the Studio podcast and The Queen's Studio — for makers who want to go deeper, wherever they are.
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Il Baciarino is my home and studio - a small agriturismo in the hills of Tuscany, forty minutes from the sea. It is where the retreats and residency happen. It is also where the making happens, every day, regardless of who is here.
Il Baciarino is not a retreat centre. It is a home that happens to have a studio, a wood kiln, a dye garden, and room for eight people who want to make things seriously for ten days. The olive grove is outside the door. The sea is forty minutes away. The food is good. None of this is happenstance. It is the whole point.