Ceramics Course - 6 Weeks

Looking to kickstart a new hobby? Come along and build a foundation of ceramic skills to start practising and creating your own beautiful ceramic pieces.

This London pottery course provides six sessions running through all hand-building techniques, slip casting, throwing on the wheel, slab building, hand sculpting with coils and decorating with glazes and slips.
It is all covered to make sure you get a strong pottery foundation to practice on your own with great confidence!

Pottery course outline:

Week 1 : Intro to clay - what can be done at pottery studios and small manufacturing processes, how it works from start to finish, and also the health and safety in the studio. Pinching pots is the first technique you get your teeth into. Finishing off with glaze samples for future use.

Week 2: Coiling vessels or sculptures, with this world most known sculpting technique.

Week 3: Slab building, a total different approach to soft clay, think structural in this session. Get geometric-n-groovy.

Week 4: Throwing, we will show you how to throw on the wheel, in this small group you'll get plenty of one to one. Throwing is much harder than most think, we believe that throwing is a skill that evolves at your own pace and with lots of practice.

+Slip casting is our bonus of the course. Exploring the industrial process of casting a bowl or cup with a ready-made plaster mould! You will learn how to decorate straight from a mould and cast your first manufactured-like piece of tableware!

Week 5: Decorating, learning the possibilities in decorating, finishing your pieces. use colour underglazes or colour slips to add colours. Press on marks, and carve out patterns. the possibilities are endless, all you need is your own inspiration

Week 6: Finally Glazing! You’ll be glazing all your pieces either with brush-on or pouring or dipping techniques depending on the shape and size of your pieces.

Clay and glaze are included but firing is at £3 / litre (size of 2 pint glass), payable in cash or card at collection.

At the end of these six pottery classes in London, you'll leave with new knowledge, a collection of sparkling ceramics, inspiration for your clay journey, and even new friends who share your clay love!

If you aren't able to commit to a 6 week course, we also run intensive day classes covering the majority of content mentioned above, leaving you just as motivated to make!

*After the full course you are welcome to join our Open access for free (worth £40 induction). Open access is charged at £7 per hour including clay and glazes (firing pieces are added costs £3/liter), for you to make full use of our facility independently at your own pace, without our guidance. Open access has flexible times!

• Please bring a sketchbook and any reference materials/images describing anything you wish to make.
• Make sure to have your nails trimmed prior to the class.
• Aprons will be provided but you might get messy so wear clothes you don't mind mucking up!
• Please bring your snacks to keep your clay energy up!

This class series runs over 6 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.