Weekend Course • Clay Elementals (An Intro to Pottery)
Discover this beautiful material in our new, relaxed and intimate introductory six week series: Clay Elementals. Designed for beginners, this hands-on experience will guide you through the fundamentals of working with clay. You will learn foundational techniques such as hand-building, wheel-throwing, and glazing, while exploring your creativity and personal style as you learn create your own tableware set ––– or, if you have a specific project in mind, we welcome that too.
Each week you will be working in a calm, supportive environment with like-minded people and we keep our classes small, so that you receive as much guidance as you need.
Dates and Timings
The workshop will run across the same day (Sunday) for six consecutive weeks, from 12.00–14.00
Winter Course • 12 Jan, 19 Jan, 26 Jan, 2 Feb, 9 Feb and 16 Feb
Spring Course • 2 Mar, 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 23 Mar, 30 Mar and 6 Apr
How We’ll Work Together
In the first week we’ll start together at the tables learning a combination of hand-building techniques and dipping our toes in the water of the potter’s wheel, a relaxed and attentive introduction.
You will then rotate around the studio, splitting your time between the wheels and the workbenches, with careful guidance throughout.
You’ll have two weeks working on the wheel, including being shown how to weigh and prepare your clay for throwing, how to centre your clay, use throwing tools, and work towards creating simple shapes. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your throwing weeks.
You will spend another two weeks at the workbenches learning how to work with traditional plaster moulds and a combination of hand-building techniques to create a set of beautiful objects. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your handbuilding weeks.
In the final week, you will learn how to glaze your pieces in a beautiful selection of colours of your choosing, ready for their final firing.
Workshop Notes
Each session is two hours – but we’ll allow for ten minutes at the end to clean down your workstation.
This series is aimed and and suitable for complete beginners, however if you have a little more experience, we’ll support you to work at your level.
You’ll keep up to six of your best pieces to be glazed and put forward for the final firing. Additional pieces can be glazed/fired for a nominal fee (to cover glazing materials and firings costs). Your final pieces will be ready to collect within a couple of weeks of your final session.
Please bring an apron and old tea towel, and consider cutting your nails short for weeks you will be throwing.
Please find our booking policy here.
Discover this beautiful material in our new, relaxed and intimate introductory six week series: Clay Elementals. Designed for beginners, this hands-on experience will guide you through the fundamentals of working with clay. You will learn foundational techniques such as hand-building, wheel-throwing, and glazing, while exploring your creativity and personal style as you learn create your own tableware set ––– or, if you have a specific project in mind, we welcome that too.
Each week you will be working in a calm, supportive environment with like-minded people and we keep our classes small, so that you receive as much guidance as you need.
Dates and Timings
The workshop will run across the same day (Sunday) for six consecutive weeks, from 12.00–14.00
Winter Course • 12 Jan, 19 Jan, 26 Jan, 2 Feb, 9 Feb and 16 Feb
Spring Course • 2 Mar, 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 23 Mar, 30 Mar and 6 Apr
How We’ll Work Together
In the first week we’ll start together at the tables learning a combination of hand-building techniques and dipping our toes in the water of the potter’s wheel, a relaxed and attentive introduction.
You will then rotate around the studio, splitting your time between the wheels and the workbenches, with careful guidance throughout.
You’ll have two weeks working on the wheel, including being shown how to weigh and prepare your clay for throwing, how to centre your clay, use throwing tools, and work towards creating simple shapes. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your throwing weeks.
You will spend another two weeks at the workbenches learning how to work with traditional plaster moulds and a combination of hand-building techniques to create a set of beautiful objects. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your handbuilding weeks.
In the final week, you will learn how to glaze your pieces in a beautiful selection of colours of your choosing, ready for their final firing.
Workshop Notes
Each session is two hours – but we’ll allow for ten minutes at the end to clean down your workstation.
This series is aimed and and suitable for complete beginners, however if you have a little more experience, we’ll support you to work at your level.
You’ll keep up to six of your best pieces to be glazed and put forward for the final firing. Additional pieces can be glazed/fired for a nominal fee (to cover glazing materials and firings costs). Your final pieces will be ready to collect within a couple of weeks of your final session.
Please bring an apron and old tea towel, and consider cutting your nails short for weeks you will be throwing.
Please find our booking policy here.
Discover this beautiful material in our new, relaxed and intimate introductory six week series: Clay Elementals. Designed for beginners, this hands-on experience will guide you through the fundamentals of working with clay. You will learn foundational techniques such as hand-building, wheel-throwing, and glazing, while exploring your creativity and personal style as you learn create your own tableware set ––– or, if you have a specific project in mind, we welcome that too.
Each week you will be working in a calm, supportive environment with like-minded people and we keep our classes small, so that you receive as much guidance as you need.
Dates and Timings
The workshop will run across the same day (Sunday) for six consecutive weeks, from 12.00–14.00
Winter Course • 12 Jan, 19 Jan, 26 Jan, 2 Feb, 9 Feb and 16 Feb
Spring Course • 2 Mar, 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 23 Mar, 30 Mar and 6 Apr
How We’ll Work Together
In the first week we’ll start together at the tables learning a combination of hand-building techniques and dipping our toes in the water of the potter’s wheel, a relaxed and attentive introduction.
You will then rotate around the studio, splitting your time between the wheels and the workbenches, with careful guidance throughout.
You’ll have two weeks working on the wheel, including being shown how to weigh and prepare your clay for throwing, how to centre your clay, use throwing tools, and work towards creating simple shapes. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your throwing weeks.
You will spend another two weeks at the workbenches learning how to work with traditional plaster moulds and a combination of hand-building techniques to create a set of beautiful objects. You’ll keep your best three pieces from your handbuilding weeks.
In the final week, you will learn how to glaze your pieces in a beautiful selection of colours of your choosing, ready for their final firing.
Workshop Notes
Each session is two hours – but we’ll allow for ten minutes at the end to clean down your workstation.
This series is aimed and and suitable for complete beginners, however if you have a little more experience, we’ll support you to work at your level.
You’ll keep up to six of your best pieces to be glazed and put forward for the final firing. Additional pieces can be glazed/fired for a nominal fee (to cover glazing materials and firings costs). Your final pieces will be ready to collect within a couple of weeks of your final session.
Please bring an apron and old tea towel, and consider cutting your nails short for weeks you will be throwing.