Running every Wednesday 7-9pm

Returning customer: £212.50

Standard: £250

A four week beginners introduction to wheel throwing. This group course includes all of your materials, 2 weeks of learning the basics of how to throw on a potters wheel, the third week learning to trim the pieces that you created in the first two weeks and then a final week of glazing and decorating. Once you have finished the your creations at the end of the course you can leave them with me to fire the pieces you have created, up to 6 pieces can be fired for you to take home! The pieces will be finished and glazed and ready for pick up around 4 weeks after your class ends.

WEEK 1- Introduction to wheel throwing.

- Explore clay as a medium learn the basics of wedging, centring, compressing and pulling.

WEEK 2- Refining techniques and form

- Building on skills learnt in week 1 we begin exploring bowl forms and how to shape a piece keeping our pieces for the next class to trim.

WEEK 3- Introduction to trimming

- Taking our pieces created from the previous weeks learn how to trim to neaten up your pieces. Here you can choose your 6 best pieces for firing and keeping.

- Any time left over can be used for freely working on the wheel with guidance.

WEEK 4- Glazing

- Learn about the basics of how to glaze and what creates a glaze choosing from the range of glaze colours that is available.

- Any time left over can be used for final wheel practice.

Location and preparing for the course.

The studio is in the front car park of the mill next to a large room called the project space. It is not in the main building but a shorter building that is painted white. If you can please cut your nails short before you arrive and you can bring your apron if you wish, we do have some spare!

As this is a course with few lessons and considering the long processing time for ceramics any absences might prevent the pieces from being finished.

Parndon Mill, CM20 2HP