4 weekends (saturday and sunday) – 8 sessions

A comprehensive course in pottery learning. You will be introduced to a wide variety of techniques for
creating, decorating and firing pottery. From very simple projects to more complicated skills, surface
treatments, we will guide you through the process. Basically the whole process of building finished ceramic
products

Includes: ready to work stoneware clay – 20kg, 1 kiln bisque and glaze firing out of the clay and glaze provided,
studio facilities, tuition
The extra material and extra kiln firing is chargeable
Day 1 – Introduction to clay – stages of clay in the process. (Participants will be provided with ready to work
clay), Demonstration of Methods of Pottery: Wheel, Hand-building (Pinch, Slab & Coil).
Day 2 – Practical Wheel work – Centring and opening, Hand building – Pinching method.
Day 3 – Practical Wheel work – Making Cylinders, Hand building – Coil method.
Day 4 – Practical Wheel work – Making Bowls Hand-building – Slab method.
Day 5 – Practical Wheel work – Making Pots Hand-building – Combination of 2 methods.
Day 6- Finishing articles and loading Kiln for bisque firing
Day 7 – Introduction to the glazes and glazing articles.
Day 8 -Glazing and loading Kiln for Glaze firing
Review and FAQ session.