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NEW! SATURDAY MORNING CLASSES
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Starting in January 2022
Rushton Pottery weekly classes are a chance to unwind in a friendly and relaxed environment where you can learn new skills, or practice and refresh old ones. Everyone works at their own pace in the class so the they are suitable for complete beginners and improvers.
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Sessions are three hours (9.30am - 12.30pm).
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Courses are 6 weeks long and cost £240, fully inclusive of all materials.
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You can expect:
to choose to work on your own pieces or follow a curriculum designed to introduce you to all elements of pottery, starting with coil pots and moving on to throwing and even making your own glazes
only six people in the class so lots of elbow room
two of us teaching so plenty of 1:1 time
weekly demonstrations of new techniques
fast turnaround of firings so that you won't have to wait long to see your finished masterpieces!
comprehensive selection of metal oxides, glazes and underglazes for you to use for decoration
a selection of clays to choose from
tea/coffee and homemade cake :-)
We are limiting spaces to 6 people at a time so call or email soon if you are interested!
2022 Terms:
Sat 8th January - Sat 12th February (places available)
Sat 12th March - 23rd April (no class on Sat 16th April)
Sat 21st May - Sat 25th June
Sat 3rd September - Sat 8th Oct
Sat 5th November - Sat 10th Dec
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Rushton Pottery
A bright, spacious studio with lots of room to work!
We aim to turn around your pots inside a month
Rushton Pottery
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN OUR CLASSES?
You can come in clutching a picture from Pinterest and we'll work out how you can make it, or you can choose to start at the beginning and work through handbuilding and throwing from start to finish. Whichever approach you choose we will do a demonstration each week to introduce everyone to something new so through 1:1 teaching and weekly demonstrations everyone will learn:
about clay, the tools / equipment used in the craft and about firing
about how to form with clay (pinching, coiling, slab work, throwing and how to make handles, lids and spouts)
how to decorate your pieces (impressing, inlaying, slip decoration, sgraffito, sprigging, piercing, stencilling, printing, underglazing, using colouring oxides, resist decoration and agateware)
how to make your own glazes, the different ways of applying glaze and the pitfalls to avoid!