Collection: Ceramics

Develop core wheel-throwing skills through hands-on practice in clay preparation, wedging, centring, lifting, shaping, trimming and turning. This intensive course builds strong technique and confidence on the wheel while encouraging exploration of form. Create bowls, cups or sculptural pieces, with selected works bisque-fired in NAS kilns.

Enhance your throwing skills to create larger, more intricate forms on the potter’s wheel and expand your existing throwing techniques. Explore new methods, including advanced coiling and the complexities of sectional throwing, to create tall forms and low, wide pieces. 

Discover new approaches to handbuilding with an intuitive approach, exploring techniques such as pinching, coiling, stacking, joining, and slabs to create expressive vessels and sculptural forms. Across multiple firings, you’ll explore slip decoration and glazing, layering colour and texture to achieve rich, unexpected surfaces.  

Develop and deepen your practice of hand-building in ceramics, whether you're interested in creating vessels, figurative forms, abstract sculptures, large-scale works, or a series of smaller pieces. Ideal for both beginners and intermediate students seeking to expand their skills. 

In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to hand build three-dimensional forms and sculptural wall works out of clay. Working with slab building techniques, explore ceramic forms as well as surface design and decoration through a use of slip, underglaze, sgraffito and carving techniques to create personal stories with clay. 

Learn to use the potter’s wheel to create simple, elegant ceramic forms in this hands-on eight-week course. Explore the full process from clay to glazed pot through group demonstrations and individual guidance. Suitable for all levels, the course builds confidence, refines technique, and reveals the creative possibilities of throwing and glazing.