Beginners wheel throwing and glazing

This course is designed to provide well-rounded skills set in wheel thrown ceramics. To give an excellent start towards self-determined and curious ceramics practice.

Participants will develop fundamental wheel throwing skills to create the essential cylinder form by centring, opening and lifting the walls of the pot. As a widening set of forms become within reach.  

Leading onwards to thinking about decorative approaches through coloured slips and glazes. While the ceramic surface can be approached in many ways, with marks added or removed, a surface can be discovered through feel and the natural progression of aesthetic decisions. This may lead to surfaces which could be expressive or illustrative or simply minimal, to name just a few. 

With limited group sizes of a maximum of three participants there is plenty of space for one-to-one tuition and dicussion. 

The culmination of the course will see participants take away all ceramic pieces they have completed during the course.

This beginners course is priced at £230 per person for six weeks. Each weekly session is two hours in duration. The course fee includes all materials and high temperature firings. 

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