Intensives
Introduction:
What You’ll Explore
Centring & Control: Learn how to work with the clay (not against it) and find your balance at the wheel.
Basic Forms: Master the building blocks of throwing: cylinders, bowls, and simple vessels.
Throwing Rhythm: Develop a feel for the process, from preparing clay to lifting walls with steady hands.
Refinement: Introduction to trimming, smoothing, and shaping your pieces for strength and elegance.
Selective Keeping: Learn to identify your best results, building discernment as you grow your skills.
With hands-on guidance, individual feedback, and daily demos, you’ll quickly build confidence and enjoy seeing your progress stack up on the shelf beside you. By the end, you’ll have a small collection of thrown forms ready for firing, and the knowledge to keep developing your practice.
Improvers:
Designed especially for those with some throwing experience who are looking to deepen their skills.
What You’ll Explore
Sharpen Your Throwing: Strengthen your core techniques while pushing form, scale, and intention in your making.
Master Trimming: Learn how to turn with finesse, refining feet, balancing weight, and bringing a professional finish to your pieces.
Elevate Your Forms: Shift from purely functional to considered, developing work that’s cleaner, lighter, and more resolved.
Selective Keeping: Learn to critically evaluate your pieces, keeping only those that best reflect your progress and eye.
Expect hands-on support, individual feedback, and a quiet sense of progress. By the end, you’ll have a stronger understanding of your own rhythm at the wheel and a collection of well-finished forms to show for it.
Included in Your Course Clay: A maximum of 2kgs of works can be kept, which can be taken at the greenware stage to fire in your own studio, or an additional session of glazing can be purchased alongside.
Glazing: If you purchase the glazing session for £50, you'll have access to a variety of studio glazes to add the perfect finish to your work. Link to glaze class - new times are uploaded at the end of the intensive and our team will walk you through the dates and times for booking.
Tools: For beginners no need to bring anything but your creativity — we've got all the tools you'll need. For improvers, you are welcome to bring your own tools.Apron: If you have your own to bring fantastic if not we have them in the studio.