Friday daytime adult class with a focus on understanding glazes.
Dates: 21 January – 1 April (Half term: 25 February)
Times: 10.30am – 1.30pm
Tutor: Mirka Golden-Hann
This is an ideal class for those ceramics and pottery students, beginners and more advanced who, whilst engaging in clay making, also wish to gain a deeper understanding of how ceramic glazes work. As well as covering many hand-building methods and throwing on the potters wheel, this course will include an element of glaze experimentation and development.
Thursday evening adult pottery class. Sign up for ten weeks of tuition with tutor Andy Glass.
Dates: from 20 January – 31 March 2022 (Half term: 24 February)
Times: 6pm- 9pm
Tutor: Andy Glass
These regular sessions are the ideal opportunity for ceramics and pottery beginners and intermediate students wanting to become familiar with or improve their clay making skills. We believe that the relaxed, friendly, and peaceful atmosphere is an ideal environment for creative learning. This weekly class led by an experienced ceramics practitioner is designed to nurture everyone’s individual creativity and further each person’s skills at their own pace. You will be able to cover hand building techniques such as pinch-pot making, coiling, slab building as well as work on the potters wheel.
Cost: £65
Tutor: Andy Glass
Introducing practice – Q and A session with Andy Glass about firing your electric kiln. This session is designed to empower all emerging potters to use their electric kilns well. It will cover firing temperatures and schedules, tips on what to do and what to avoid doing.
Tutor: Bridget Timoney In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your Christmas decorations and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make some.
Tutor: Bridget Timoney In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your Christmas decorations and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make some.
Tutor: Finn Bush A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture
Tutor: Finn Bush A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture
Date: Saturday 6 November Tutor: Bridget Timoney Decorative traditions from around the world collide with brightly coloured and infinitely patterned shapes. A wide range of different decorative methods for you to choose from to create clay christmas decorations, light enough to hang from a branch and beautiful enough to charm the eye. Use scaffiito, imprint, miniature sculpture, cutters and collage resist methods to add beauty to clay base shapes.
Date: Saturday 6 November
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
Decorative traditions from around the world collide with brightly coloured and infinitely patterned shapes. A wide range of different decorative methods for you to choose from to create clay christmas decorations, light enough to hang from a branch and beautiful enough to charm the eye. Use scaffiito, imprint, miniature sculpture, cutters and collage resist methods to add beauty to clay base shapes.
Date: Saturday 23 October
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
This is an opportunity for the whole family to see how you get on with the potter’s wheel.