Collection: Ceramics

Do you have some hand-building skills but are missing out on essential knowledge about clay, kilns and glazes? Fills in the gaps at this 2-day hand-building course, with a specific focus on the outcomes for the pieces.

Develop your wheel throwing skills and discover the language and form of clay, using foundational and advanced techniques. Explore the structures, movements and creative possibilities of shaping clay while expanding your throwing abilities.

Discover exciting approaches to handbuilding in clay with a focus on techniques to push the boundaries of the material and form to create unique and beautiful clay objects using different types of clay.

Discover diverse approaches to handbuilding in clay with a focus on making colourful ceramic vessels and objects using experimental techniques to push the boundaries of the form. Learn to work with a range of techniques including pinching, stacking, joining, coiling and slab construction.

Holly Macdonald encourages you to harness your intuition to allow the form to emerge, leading to new possibilities in the way you think about clay as a sculptural form. You will utilise slip decoration, underglaze and glazing techniques over multiple firings to achieve surprising results and unexpected outcomes.

Open to students of all levels of experience in ceramics. 

A hands-on, practical workshop on the basics of glaze composition, firing and glaze testing techniques.  Learn to select and test glazes, colour and surface development and set appropriate firing cycles.

Build on your existing knowledge of glazes and develop surface palettes to suit your own practice. Learn specialised firing cycles and the effects of glazes on different clay bodies.

Create contemporary clay artworks with white porcelain clay and use lustre colours to add brilliant accents to your glazed ceramics. Learn mould-making, raw glazing, lustre tile testing, firing and finishing techniques.

Learn the skills required to reproduce the same form on the potter’s wheel, over and over again. Discover how to throw clay and use the wheel efficiently to ensure consistency across forms and develop your own visual language of fluidity on the wheel.