Developer Course
10 weeks
Level - Improver
Our signature 10-week Developer Course.
Designed for potters who want to push past the basics of throwing and focus on more advanced skills such as confidently throwing bigger or more advanced forms. The course offers ample space for practice along with expert technical guidance and adjustments from an expert pottery tutor.
With max 8 students in a class, you’ll get heaps of 1-1 tuition from our expert potter.
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Week 1 - Getting the most from a cylinder and wiring through. Essential in building foundations.
Week 2 - Cylinder progression with more clay. Shaping into jug forms and bellied vases.
Week 3 - Exploring lidded vessels. Bodies with galleries, lids off the hump, how to make them fit.
Week 4 - Large bowls of varying forms, continuous inner curves and trimming the foot next session.
Week 5-8 - Guided projects. This could be making a set of pieces, developing a particular form, throwing with more and more clay… anything else or a combination of these. The tutor will guide you on your individual project and pepper in demonstrations as you go. Totally tailored to the 6 students needs.
Week 9 - Finishing pieces and begin glazing
Week 10 - Glazing focus
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All tools are included in the course price and you have unlimited stoneware clay to use in the sessions. You’re free to explore and throw as much as you like!
For pots you want fired, there is a charge of £5 per KG. We’d encourage you to be thoughtful about pieces you you wish to fire and material usage.
The wide range of studio glazes and slips are free to use as much as you like.
We provide aprons.
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The range is broad due to the small class size so teachers can manage different skill levels.
You should have done some ceramics before, such as our Beginner Course, and be comfortable centring and throwing a small pot.
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“I am relatively new to pottery but this has been by far the best studio I have been to in London…”
“I felt more confident with my pottery skills every week and learned so much more than I had expected. You get to go home with lots of your handmade pottery, which is a bonus!”
“The teaching on the course is spectacular. She’d incredibly encouraging and kind and explains things in a way that makes total sense”
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This course is run by expert potters Adele Williams, Tash Hart, Jago Pointer or Josh Jollif.
Read more about them HERE