Potter's Wheel Weekend Course Select your tickets

Select your tickets

  • Adult
    £340

What to bring with you

Please wear old clothes and foot ware you don't mind getting a little splattered in clay.

An apron and old towel. Alternatively, you can hire an apron and towel bundle from us at £5 per person.

Packed lunch and drink for both days.

This is how it works

DAY 1: The workshop starts at 10am. After introductions and initial demonstration, you’ll be individually assigned a potter’s wheel for the duration of the workshop. The group will be guided, step by step, through the pot throwing process. Once you have got the hang of things, you will be encouraged to develop at your own pace with individual tutoring as and when required. We break for lunch around 1pm. (Please bring a packed lunch) We'll stop for an hour but you are very welcome to take a shorter break and get straight back on to the wheel for untutored practice. In the afternoon there are further demonstrations after which you will work larger lumps of clay, make bigger pots and explore different shapes and forms. We conclude the workshop by cleaning the wheels. Day 1 ends at 4pm. Your pots will be left to slightly harden over night so you can work on them the following morning.

DAY 2: 10am. Your pots from Saturday are now ‘leather-hard’ and ready to be trimed. After further demonstrations you will learn how to add foot-rings, join handles and attach other motifs. After lunch and once you have experimented with the techniques, you will select between one and four of your favourite pots, depending on size, and paint them using under-glazes and decorating slips. (Extra pots can be fired at £6 per 250 g, payable on the day.) The weekend concludes at 4pm.

Your fabulous creations will be left with us to dry thoroughly before they go into the kiln. Once they have been fired and glazed, we‟ll carefully wrap and dispatch your finished pots to your home address. You will be delighted at the professional results when they arrive on your doorstep approximately one month later.