Tuition

Regular Pottery Tuition

For 1 or 2 adults; £30 per hour per person; 2-hour session

Two hours weekly is ideal for ensuring progress, and it will give you the opportunity for continuity, and to start to build up that muscle memory that goes with developing skill and techniques. 

It is practice and repetition that reinforces skills and helps you to find what works for you. I will ensure that good habits are established and that you play to your abilities. I will be able to keep your work in a workable condition so it is ready for when you return for your next session.

Tools, equipment, clay and glazes are included with tuition cost.

Each session is bespoke and led by your needs, and may include:

• hand-building techniques, including pinch, coil, slab, impressing;
• wheel-thrown pottery techniques, including wedging, centring, throwing, turning, glazing; or
• a combination of the above.  

One-off Workshops

For 1, 2 or 3 adults; £100 for 1 person; £180 for 2 people; £240 for 3 people; approx. 3 hours (with time for refreshments)

I will help you to understand all the processes involved in making your work through to its completion, some of which will happen before and after the session, and before collection of your completed work (e.g. preparing the clay, drying, preparing for bisque firing, glazing and glaze firing).

Hand building will use the following techniques: slab building; using cutters; pinch pot to form the basis of a pot or character; impressing the clay e.g. with leaves or shells for texture; coiling; or a combination of the above. 

If time allows, you may be able to have an experience on the wheel. If more than one person, others will continue with hand-building (so I can support the person having a turn on the wheel).

It is possible to devote the 3 hours to wheel throwing (for one person only):

• • to improve technique, if you already have experience; or
  • just to experience the wheel and what wheel throwing entails.

Contact Alison Holmans