POTTERY CLASS: introduction to handbuilding, date & class size to suit you.

🪴 This is a one session private class to introduce hand building skills via the making of three functional items. 3 hours long.

🪴 PRICE: is for one [£110] or two people [£160], or more [see drop down prices]

🪴 LOCATION: held at my riverside studio near Woolwich. (Thamesside Studios, https://www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk)

🪴 TIME: to suit you, evenings or weekends are not a problem. I am shut throughout August as I move to a larger studio.

🪴 You are most welcome to create this as a celebration session for your group. 🎉Drinks & snacks with care!

Enjoy quiet and close tuition alone or as your private group in my studio; Dads & daughters, couples, sisters, hens, respite from stress, for well-being, special occasions, you decide! You’ll use studio materials and tools and the studio workspace & we’ll work together carefully to make three homewares that would make lovely gifts, or to be proudly kept, robust enough for daily use.

We’ll work with this calming organic material with fundamental skills but whilst I explain the nuances of material & technique so as to achieve really professional results. You'll learn set up, cutting & construction using templates marking, stamping and building to make a dish and a mug. Then we’ll look at the sgraffito technique (scratching through a contrasting layer of slip) and make fast bold marks and shapes onto a plate. I will then fire & glaze your work to your instruction.

🪴 Price includes the session, all materials & use of tools, finishing after bisque, & glazing*

🪴 Postage, collection or delivery to be arranged.

🪴 DBS checked & certified, public liability insured.

🪴 You tell me when you’d like to come & subject to my availability I can look at daytimes, evenings, or weekends to suit you. Please contact me before purchase if you need a very specific date or timing. All ages welcome, my workbench is 90cms high, ensure your child is tall enough. Do let me know if standing for three hours is problematic, and I do have a seat you can rest in. I have run this class as a seated activity before for one if this is required. Level access & nearby toilet.

🪴 After September '24 I will be in a larger studio space and able to host up to six at a time in my own space. Ground floor access with a slight raise on the door entry and toilet within.

🪴 *Cancellation: please give me as much notice as you can, I start prepping on this 7 days beforehand. Within 48 hours I will do my best to re-sell the place and refund but if this isn't possible I cannot refund, please gift your place to family or friend if you can*

***NB I am not booking classes in August whilst I move studio, expect lots of new classes starting Sept****

I really look forward to sharing some clay joy! #ClayIsOurWay