Beginners and Improvers | 10 Weeks Pottery Course | Various Start Dates

This 10 week course will teach both wheel throwing and hand building and is suitable for beginners with no previous experience and mixed level participants who want to improve their skills. Participants get a rounded view of what is possible with clay, so whilst your course is loosley structured, your tutor will guide and work with you, depending on your experience and challenge you to improve your pottery skills. Additionally, you will be introduced to surface decoration and finally the glazing of your your pieces.

What you will have the opportunity to learn or improve on:

Throwing on the wheel:

Centring
Pulling up walls.
Trimming.

Hand building techniques:

pinching, coiling and slab making.
Making and attaching handles.
Introduction to surface decoration.

What's included:

We will provide all materials throughout the course. All of our students use our studio white or buff stoneware clay, and have access to a full range of tools and glazes.
The glazing and firing of up to 10 pieces (extra pots are charged at £5 per small pot and £10 for bigger pots).
Up to 3 hours Independent studio time (untaught), to practice your new skills on a day and time that suits you. These sessions can be booked during your course with your own unique code.
Good to know!

-Please bring your own apron and tea towel or small cloth to each lesson.
-Short nails are much easier to work with as long nails can make it challenging to handle clay.
-Jewellery and watches off!
-Don’t come in your Sunday best, working with clay can be vey messy!
-It takes up to 3 weeks for your glazed ceramics to be ready to collect. 

Please read through our FAQs for our most asked questions. Read our T&Cs berfore booking.

Now for the boring but important part. . .

All classes are refundable up until 28 days prior to the start of the course. After this we may be able to reschedule your course. PLEASE NOTE: From 14 days prior, your course is non-refundable. We are a small pottery studio and our courses run at capacity. Teachers and materials are organised in advance for the number of booked participants.