Courses:
Our most popular.
Pottery Wheel: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Beginners)
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£215pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 5-week beginner pottery course focusing on wheel-thrown techniques. No prior experience needed!
Learn to craft bowls and mugs using throwing, trimming, and glazing. Each 2-hour session offers hands-on guidance in small groups of up to 6 people for personalised attention. Take home 6-10 pieces.
We use stoneware clay and custom in-house glazes. All items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions is required. Dates announced quarterly and fill up fast—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week1: Getting to grips with the potter's wheel. Learning to throw a bowl form.
Week2: Learning to trim. Trimming bowls made in the week prior and learning how to create a foot ring.
Week 3: Learn how to throw a cylinder and experiment with shape and surface decoration.
Week 4: Trim your creations made in the week prior and learn how to make and apply handles.
Week 5: Learn how to glaze your pottery wares.
Hand-Building: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Beginners)
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£180pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 5-week hand-built pottery course for beginners. Learn pinching, coiling, and slab building techniques with tutor Stephanie. No prior experience required!
Create functional or decorative pottery using these fundamental techniques and take home 4-8 pieces. Each 2-hour session includes detailed demonstrations and personalised guidance in groups of up to 8 people.
We use stoneware clay and custom in-house glazes. Items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions is required. Dates announced quarterly—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week1: Coil Building and surface decoration.
Week2: Pinch Pots & closed forms.
Week 3: Slab building cylindrical forms .
Week 4: Slab building rectangular or geometric shapes.
Week 5: Learn how to glaze your pottery wares.
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Courses:
Pottery Wheel.
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Organised into three progressive levels—Beginner, Intermediate, and Experienced—Our ‘Fundamental’ courses are designed to offer participants a thorough understanding of the foundational techniques and principles essential for crafting ceramic wares on a potter's wheel.
Each course is dedicated to creating two distinct projects, encompassing two unique forms/shapes. These projects entail a sequence of essential steps, including throwing, trimming, and finally, glazing.
Join one of our ‘fundamentals’ courses and explore crucial technique, form and process.
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Our ‘Focussed’ courses aim to provide attendees with an in-depth, directed understanding of specific processes or techniques when crafting wares on the Pottery Wheel. These courses are suitable for an array of beginner, intermediate and experienced level potters. Prior experience on the wheel is advised.
Each course focuses on a different principle & focus, with the intention of further developing and enhancing fundamental skills. Projects are simplified in terms of shape and form, with the focus being on material and adaptation instead.
Join one of our ‘focussed’ courses and explore method, material and style.
Pottery Wheel: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Beginners)
Pottery Wheel: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Intermediate)
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£215pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 5-week beginner pottery course focusing on wheel-thrown techniques. No prior experience needed!
Learn to craft bowls and mugs using throwing, trimming, and glazing. Each 2-hour session offers hands-on guidance in small groups of up to 6 people for personalised attention. Take home 6-10 pieces.
We use stoneware clay and custom in-house glazes. All items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions is required. Dates announced quarterly and fill up fast—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week1: Getting to grips with the potter's wheel. Learning to throw a bowl form.
Week2: Learning to trim. Trimming bowls made in the week prior and learning how to create a foot ring.
Week 3: Learn how to throw a cylinder and experiment with shape and surface decoration.
Week 4: Trim your creations made in the week prior and learn how to make and apply handles.
Week 5: Learn how to glaze your pottery wares.
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£215pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 5-week pottery wheel course for intermediate throwers. Refine skills, explore new shapes like vases, jugs, and jars with lids, and learn new throwing and trimming techniques. Take home 6-10 pieces.
Each 2-hour session includes demonstrations and personalised guidance in small groups of up to 6 people.
We use stoneware clay and custom in-house glazes. Items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions required. Quarterly dates—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Reintroduction to throwing. Learn how to collar in your cylinder to create a bottleneck/vase form.
Week 2: Trim the pieces thrown in the week prior using a chuck (a tool used to trim forms with a narrow rim).
Week 3: Learn how to throw a closed form or a ‘yoyo jar’.
Week 4: Trim your jars thrown in the week prior using a suction technique and experiment with using decorative slip (coloured clay) to finish your pieces.
Week 5: Learn how to glaze your pottery wares and experiment with layering glazes and masking.
Pottery Wheel: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Experienced)
Pottery Wheel: Focussed/ 7 Week Group Course - Clay.
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£235pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Join our 5-week advanced pottery wheel course for experienced potters seeking to expand their skills. Create large vessels and lidded pieces like urns or teapots. Gain insights into studio processes and clay selection. Ideal for those not yet ready to start their own studio practice.
Take home 3-5 pieces. Each 2-hour session includes demos and personalised guidance in small groups of up to 6 people.
We use stoneware clay and custom glazes. Items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions required. Quarterly dates—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Clay preparation & throwing session. Learn a little about preparing, reclaiming and the benefits of different clay bodies. Settle into the wheel and throw two large forms with the intention of joining them together in the week following to form a sculptural vessel such as a large vase, fruit bowl with a stand, etc.
Week 2: Trimming and attaching forms session. Learn how to effectively attach and alter your pieces thrown in the week prior and receive an introduction to combining coiling & throwing techniques.
Week 3: Throwing session. Learn how to form a gallery (sunken lip) and a separate lid to fit. This can take the form of a jar, pot or teapot when finalised.
Week 4: Trimming session. Learn how to trim the pieces made in the week prior to fit together and apply handles should you wish.
Week 5: Glazing session. Before decorating your wares, receive a quick explanation from our tutor about glaze chemistry, different glazing methods and safety precautions. Afterwards, get stuck into glazing your work.
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£325pp
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2hrs per session / 7 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 7-week pottery wheel course centered around clay. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive grasp of various clay bodies and the creative possibilities they offer.
Our primary goals are to introduce you to the diverse choices available in clay selection and to delve into the merits, drawbacks, and techniques associated with each clay type. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to work with the following materials and explore the techniques needed when working with them.
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Throwing/ Learn how to adapt a standard clay body with aggregates, pigment or other clay. Throw 3-4 forms with the intention to explore colour.
Week 2: Trimming/ Trim your wares made in the weeks prior.
Week 3: Throwing/ Learn how to throw with a groggy Black clay body. Throw 3-4 forms in which you explore texture and boundaries.
Week 4: Trimming/ Trim your wares made in the weeks prior.
Week 5: Throwing/ Learn how to throw with porcelain. Throw 3-4 forms with the intention of exploring throwing techniques and properties of the clay.
Week 6: Trimming/ Trim your wares made in the weeks prior.
Week 7: Glazing
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£325pp
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2hrs per session / 7 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 7-week pottery wheel course centered around decoration. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive grasp of various decorative techniques available.
In this course, we aim to provide attendees with an in-depth focus on creating and applying surface decoration to wheel thrown forms at varying stages in the drying process.
As this course emphasises surface decoration techniques rather than throwing particular forms, participants will have the freedom to throw whatever types of forms they wish whether they be simple or complex. Keeping that in mind it will be necessary that participants have previous experience throwing and trimming pots on the wheel as demonstrations of these processes will be brief and will only be done as a review.
Throughout the duration of this course, participants will learn a variety of surface techniques that will highlight the benefits of adding surface decoration at the plastic, leather-hard, and bonedry stages. This includes water etching, Sgraffito & Inlay, Paper Masking
Each 2-hour session begins with a thorough demonstration by our expert instructor, followed by continuous support and guidance throughout the class. With a maximum group size of 6, you can count on personalised attention and assistance.
All your creations will be crafted from stoneware clay and glazed with our in-house selection, ensuring they are safe for food and dishwasher use when correctly glazed by you.
Please be aware that sessions run consecutively each week, making attendance at all 7 dates a prerequisite for booking.
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Throwing forms for water etching.
Week 2: Water etching.
Week 3: Throwing forms for sgraffito and inlay.
Week 4: Sgraffito and inlay.
Week 5: Monoprinting.
Week 6: Glazing in depth.
Week 7: Glazing.
Pottery Wheel: Focussed/ 7 Week Group Course - Glaze.
Pottery Wheel: Focussed/ 7 Week Group Course - Decoration.
Courses:
Hand Building.
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Organised into three progressive levels—Beginner, Intermediate, and Experienced—Our ‘Fundamental’ courses are designed to offer participants a thorough understanding of the foundational techniques and principles essential for crafting ceramic wares using Hand Building methods.
Join one of our ‘fundamentals’ courses and explore crucial technique, form and process.
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Our ‘Focussed’ courses aim to provide attendees with an in-depth, directed understanding of specific processes or techniques when hand building. These courses are suitable for an array of beginner, intermediate and experienced level potters.
Each course focuses on different principles & focus, for example ‘decorative techniques’ with the intention of further developing and enhancing fundamental skills. Projects are simplified in terms of shape and form, with the focus being on material and adaptation instead.
Join one of our ‘focussed’ courses and explore method, material and style.
Hand Building: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Beginners)
Hand Building: Fundamentals/ 5 Week Group Course (Intermediate)
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£180pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 5-week hand-built pottery course for beginners. Learn pinching, coiling, and slab building techniques with tutor Stephanie. No prior experience required!
Create functional or decorative pottery using these fundamental techniques and take home 4-8 pieces. Each 2-hour session includes detailed demonstrations and personalised guidance in groups of up to 8 people.
We use stoneware clay and custom in-house glazes. Items are food and dishwasher safe when glazed properly.
Commitment to all five sessions is required. Dates announced quarterly—check availability and book online below.
Course Schedule:
Week1: Coil Building and surface decoration.
Week2: Pinch Pots & closed forms.
Week 3: Slab building cylindrical forms .
Week 4: Slab building rectangular or geometric shapes.
Week 5: Learn how to glaze your pottery wares.
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£180pp
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2hrs per session / 5 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Embark on our transformative 5-week intermediate hand-building course, designed for those a with little prior experience. Learn about inlay, using hump/press moulds, creating lidded slab boxes, elevating skills and adding intricacy through slip decoration or carving. This course is designed to enrich participants with diverse hand-building techniques.
If you want to build skills that culminate in functional and artistically expressive pottery wares
join us for this exciting journey into the world of hand-building creativity!
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Inlay / Creating Bowls on Hump Moulds
Week 2 : Creating lidded slab box
Week 3: Lidded box continued / Slip Decoration & Carving
Week 4: Press Moulding
Week 5: Glazing/ Learn how to glaze your pottery wares and experiment with layering glazes and masking.
Hand Building: Focussed/ 7 Week Group Course - Decoration.
Hand Building: Focussed/ 7 Week Group Course - Clay.
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£270pp
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2hrs per session / 7 sessions total.
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Suitable for ages 14+
Join our 7-week decorative techniques hand building course, centered around decorative techniques. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive grasp of various decorative processes and techniques.
As this course emphasises surface decoration techniques rather than hand building particular forms, participants will have the freedom to make whatever types of forms they wish whether they be simple or complex. Keeping that in mind it will be necessary that participants have previous experience hand building as demonstrations of these processes will be brief and will only be done as a review.
Throughout the duration of this course, participants will learn a variety of surface techniques that will highlight the benefits of adding surface decoration at varying stages. The techniques that will be taught in this course include:
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Stamp Making for Textured Pottery.
Week 2: Using the Stamps / Repeat patterns in clay
Weeks 3: Creating Forms for Sqraffito
Week 4: Sgraffito
Week 5: Creating Forms for Monoprinting onto Clay
Week 6: Intro to Monoprinting onto Clay
Week 7: Glazing Wares
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£270pp
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2hrs per session / 7 sessions total.
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Ages 14+
Join our 7-week hand building course centered around clay. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive grasp of various clay bodies and the creative possibilities they offer.
Our primary goals are to introduce you to the diverse choices available in clay selection and to delve into the merits, drawbacks, and techniques associated with each clay type. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to work with the following materials and explore the techniques needed when working with them:
Course Schedule:
Week 1 & 2: Colour & Nerikomi:
Week 3 & 4: Texture & Kurinuki
Week 5 & 6: Porcelain Jewellery
Week 7: Glazing your wares.
Oh no! Is your preferred date and option booked already?
We release our course dates online quarterly. These dates span across a few months and tend to book up very quickly. To find out when we will be updating our schedule, please email.