London

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Craft

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Pottery

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Clay Sculpture and Hand Building

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Kid Friendly

Textured Cup Pottery Workshop

Easy-to-follow hand-building pottery techniques, exploring patterns and textures.

Potters Thumb

5.0 (39)

6k followers

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1.5 hours

4 to 6 £35

London

•

Craft

•

Pottery

•

Clay Sculpture and Hand Building

•

Kid Friendly

What you'll do

We are delighted to inform you about a newly designed class/workshop. The session will be led by Mark Ciavola, an accomplished potter and the founder of Potters Thumb. The course aims to thoroughly analyse the results and procedures necessary for delivering a successful and pleasurable clay sculpting experience.

Throughout the class, you will have the opportunity to create a personalised cup that will add a distinctive experience to your coffee/tea drinking experience. You will receive instructions on simple hand-building techniques, allowing you to experiment with patterns in order to achieve an aesthetically pleasing surface texture on your pottery. Appropriate for individuals of all proficiency levels, particularly ideal for novices or those seeking to reengage with clay sculpting in order to enhance their expertise and understanding.

The results of the workshop:

Examining the visual characteristics of surface patterns and textures
Clay hand-building techniques: slab building/coil construction
Idea generation and exploration
Creating a personalised cup with a distinctive surface design using clay, to be fired to temperatures of up to 1120 degrees Celsius

Final Objective:
To create a cup featuring a distinctive surface texture and pattern that is exclusive to your design.

Essential items to bring to the session:

Apron
Hand Towel

Knowledge required

Appropriate for individuals of all proficiency levels, particularly ideal for novices.

What you'll get

Your finished work will be yours to keep following the two mandatory firings.
For an additional fee of £5.00, we also offer the option of shipping the item to you. Alternatively, you may choose to pick up the cups that were created during the workshop from the Crate Brewery or Hackney Wick Pottery.

What to bring

Apron
Hand Towel

Suitable for

This class is great for a team building activity, birthday or hen do.

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 12 years old).

An adult must accompany any attending kids, and must pay for a separate ticket.

This would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum or birthday gift.

Location

Crate Brewery / Potters Thumb, Unit 7, Queens yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN

Overground - Hackney Wick Station

Your teacher

Potters Thumb

5.0 (39)

6k followers

Potters Thumb is a pottery studio based at the White Building in Hackney Wick. Founded by Mark Ciavola six years ago and originally based in Brighton, our new home in London is a fully functional, multi-use studio space offering five potters wheels, a pug mill, handbuilding facilities and kiln services.

Wanting to spread his love for ceramics, Mark founded Potters Thumb to make his work available to all those who appreciate hand thrown and hand made ceramic sculptures. With the new facilities, Potters Thumb can now also share the joy of clay work with others - whether you're a novice looking to get your hands mucky in one of our introductory classes, or a practiced ceramicist looking for a studio space to call home. Potters Thumb can offer something for everyone.

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