Ceramics Class: Coil-throwing on the Wheel

Take your pottery skills further in this one-off, three-hour intermediate throwing workshop, specifically designed to help you learn how to create larger pots without needing to centre enormous lumps of clay.This focused activity begins with sketching a design for the larger form you aim to achieve. You’ll then centre an amount of clay you feel comfortable managing on the wheel – your tutor can offer helpful centring tips if needed. The core of the session involves learning a specific technique: producing long coils and skillfully adding them to your base. Your tutor will demonstrate how to add these coils in a way that allows you to continue throwing, increasing the height and shaping the profile of your pot to match your initial sketch. You'll continue adding and throwing coils until your desired form takes shape.Towards the end of the workshop, there will be time to trim your creation. You then have the choice: leave equipped with your valuable new skill, or choose to have your pot fired (please note there is an additional cost for firing) to keep as a permanent piece. You'll finish this session feeling capable, having mastered a practical technique for scaling up your pottery creations. Clay is included, firing of the final piece is not. I have tools and wheels - all you need to bring is an apron! Read more details