Pottery
Our facilities include seven electric wheels and a kick wheel, two large kilns and test kiln, damp-store, slab roller, moulds, decorative slips, underglazes, glazes and more. We use smooth white stoneware clay, Crank (Raku type clay) and Earthenware.
What is Your Pottery Level?
Completely new to Pottery
Wed am and pm and Thurs pm and Saturday Pottery Tasters.
Have attended one or two beginner classes
Repeat a beginner class with a different tutor - Wed and Thurs pm beginner classes, Wed mornings, Saturday workshops.
Have completed a full beginners course and/or have sufficient knowledge of the basics of materials, tools and processes to launch into own projects with support and can work for much of the session independently
Mon or Tues day studios or evenings, Wed or Thurs pm improver classes.
Confident with own ability and skills and starting to develop own style
Mon or Tues day studios or evenings, Wed or Thurs evening improver classes.
N.B - Returning students, please note that once you have studied up to the improvers and advanced levels and you have reached a level with your pottery where you are quite independent and develop your own style, please think about making the space available for new students to learn. The Folk House wants to offer the chance to as many people as would like to come and have a go and learn new things. So we hope returning students will spread their wings and in your own studios elsewhere if they have developed beyond the teaching offered at the Folk House. Thank you.
We found 24 courses for you
Your courses: 1 - 10 (of 24)Pottery Taster: Throwing and Turning
Have you always wanted to try using the potters wheel? This is a great chance to see how it is for you. A whole day learning techniques and skills of 'throwing on the wheel'. With key points and guida ...
Starts: Sat 16 May 2020, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: S38
Pottery Taster: Throwing and Turning
Have you always wanted to try using the potters wheel? This is a great chance to see how it is for you. A whole day learning techniques and skills of 'throwing on the wheel'. With key points and guida ...
Starts: Sat 23 May 2020, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: S49
Pottery Taster: Throwing and Turning
Have you always wanted to try using the potters wheel? This is a great chance to see how it is for you. A whole day learning techniques and skills of 'throwing on the wheel'. With key points and guida ...
Starts: Sat 30 May 2020, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: S61
Pottery: Beginners
This five week course is for complete beginners wanting to learn basic techniques. Each week you will learn several skills through a series of projects designed to use as many processes as possible. T ...
Starts: Thu 23 April 2020, at 17:30
5 Week Course
Course Code: P13
Pottery: Beginners
This is a course for those new to making pottery. During the first half of the term you will complete a series of short projects designed to teach you several techniques of hand-building pottery. Then ...
Starts: Wed 22 April 2020, at 10:00
10 Week Course
Course Code: P5
Pottery: Beginners
These are courses for those new to making pottery. During the first half of the term you will complete a series of short projects designed to teach you several techniques of hand-building pottery. The ...
Starts: Wed 22 April 2020, at 19:45
10 Week Course
Course Code: P6
Pottery: Brushwork for Ceramics - 2 Day workshop
A two-part pottery course for those with some clay-making experience who would like to develop skills in brushwork decoration. First Saturday: Making flatware and clay forms suitable for decoration ...
Starts: Sat 06 June 2020, at 10:00
2 Week Course
Course Code: S68
Pottery: Ceramic Design - Pottery Box
This is a two day course with the objective to design and make a piece of 3 dimensional work in clay in the form of a 'box', a piece of functional ceramic that may have legs, handles, a lid and other ...
Starts: Fri 24 April 2020, at 10:00
2 Week Course
Course Code: S14
Pottery: Ceramic Mugs
You will spend the day learning the skills of slab building to create a set of mugs. On the day you will be taught how to prepare, texture and form the clay. YOu will then use templates to create the ...
Starts: Sat 09 May 2020, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: S30
Pottery: Day Studio
This is an opportunity to work on your own self directed projects. Developing new ideas and techniques in construction, decoration and wheel work with ongoing tutorials, demonstrations and technical s ...
Starts: Tue 21 April 2020, at 10:00
5 Week Course
Course Code: P9
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