6 WEEK TAUGHT COURSE:

This is a six week handbuilding course running from September 9th - October 21st

There is a break week October 14th

THE COURSE DATES:

Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm

Please note there is a break for the week just before the final glazing session. This course is run as a 2-hour class per week.

This course is not appropriate for under 16’s.

Description:

This 6-week handbuilding course is great for learning to produce ceramic art and pottery without a potters wheel. Handbuilding courses are very useful foundational courses for sculpture and for broadening glazing/decoration technique and understanding. Participants will learn to glaze and finish their pieces with coloured slips and oxides and to use essential equipment like the slab-roller, extruder, and moulds.

Techniques and equipment used: Pinch pottery, coiling, slab building, slip layering, moulds, extruder, slab-roller

Pieces are currently limited to about 12 in. in height and width.

We begin with simple hollow animal/figurative sculpture, so please bring ideas of what you might like to produce - recent students have made piggy banks, hare garden sculptures and penguins for example (aprx 6 - 8 in.). We will discuss projects for weeks 2-6 in the first session.

This course acts as an induction to our open studio hand-building program.

Further info:
Absences: We will not be able to accommodate anbsences outside the set practice times outlined at the beginning of your course. Because the classes look at a week by week progression it is important to try not to miss any sessions unless absolutely necessary.

Please check our cancellation policy.

Covid has made it so we now operate on a short-course format over 6-8 week periods. Those wishing to continue may pursue a further 6 weeks to continue to develop their

Pots by Krishna Alageswaran