Taster Classes in Wheel-Throwing
These 2 hour pottery sessions are great beginner introductions to throwing clay on the wheel and will give you a fun insight into how this process works. You can choose from either our Group Classes with a maximum of 3 students or opt for a private session for up to 3 people in order to guarantee who is in your group for a special occasion or just for fun. Each 2 hour session will take you through wedging the clay, centering it on the wheel and making simple shapes that we will fire and finish for you once your session is done - our fee includes everything and so there are no extras to pay once you’re in the studio. Tools are also supplied by us.
Group Wheel-Throwing Taster Class
2 hours, 3 spaces, East London. £68 per person (beginners, adult)
Saturdays 9:30am
Sundays 1pm
A 2-hr wheel-throwing taster session - no experience necessary. This group class covers learning to wedge clay, centering on the wheel and making a simple cylinder vessel before moving on to more advanced shapes, depending on the progress of each student. The items you make will be ready to collect a few weeks after your session, please see our Collecting After Class page for more information. Click the link below to see availability and book - if availability isn’t showing for a certain date it means that the class for that day is fully booked so please do look at other dates as alternatives. These classes are taught by Jo’s experienced tutors; all tools, equipment and aprons are provided at the studio and there are no further fees to pay during any of our courses.
Course Fee Includes: all tuition, stoneware clay, firings and we will glaze items for you after the day of the class using our white speckled glaze. However, if you would like a choice of coloured glazes, and to do this side of the process yourself, then you can book onto one of our Glaze Classes via the link in your booking-confirmation email sent after signing-up for this wheel-throwing class. During the Glaze Class we will guide you through applying glaze in order to avoid pitfalls and give your work the finishing touch that you hope for.
Private Wheel-Throwing Taster Classes
2-hour class for 1-3 people, bookable at flexible times, East London.
Cost £145 for one person (+£35 per additional participant), beginners, adult
These classes are great taster sessions or one-off pottery experiences at a time that is convenient for you in the week and at set times on weekends. These classes give your private group exclusive use of the studio with your own tutor. No experience of pottery is necessary for this class.
Weekdays: Flexible times, subject to availability
Saturdays: 1pm onwards
Sundays: 4pm
This private class will start with wedging clay before quickly moving onto the pottery wheel to make simple vessels as well as more advanced shapes if the progress of students allows for this. This fun class will fly by and as you will have the studio to yourself it’s an opportunity to either have fun times with friends and family or a one to one class. The items you make will be ready to collect a few weeks after your session, please see our Collecting After Class page for more information. These classes are taught with the help of Jo’s experienced tutors. All tools, equipment and aprons are at the studio so no need to bring anything and there is nothing else to pay during any of our courses.
Course Fee Includes: all tuition, stoneware clay, firings and we will glaze items for you after the day of the class using our white speckled glaze. However, if you would like a choice of coloured glazes, and to do this side of the process yourself, then you can book onto one of our Glaze Classes via the link in your booking-confirmation email sent after signing-up for this wheel-throwing class. During the Glaze Class we will guide you through applying glaze in order to avoid pitfalls and give your work the finishing touch that you hope for.
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Freewheel Sessions - a place to practice
Untaught wheel-throwing practice sessions
3-hour sessions, 4 spaces, Sundays, 9am-noon, adult.
£47 per person
These 3 hour sessions are an opportunity to practice your wheel-throwing in our fully equipped studio and are for people with a little experience in wheel-throwing - with us or elsewhere. They are untaught but a technician will be in attendance.
Please note that we are a specialist wheel-throwing studio and Free-Wheel sessions should only be booked by people wishing to throw or trim on the wheel as well as glazing the items you make at our studio. You are welcome to book sessions for glazing items that have been made and fired at the studio. Clay, glaze and kiln firings are included in the cost but if you would like to use your own glaze then it must be a stoneware glaze that will fit in with our firings (our glaze-firing temperature range is 1240-60). Unfortunately we cannot offer storage for equipment but will store items made at the studio if they are continuing to be worked on or are awaiting firing. However, if you plan to trim your items after a throwing session then we can only keep items wrapped and damp for 2 weeks. If you intend to turn items then ideally a second session should be booked on one of the following two Sundays. Both sessions can be booked at the same time or shortly after your first session. Please let the attending technician know your intentions for your work.
If you are attending one of our courses these sessions are also a good way to deepen your skill between sessions or a way to continue your practice after the course is finished.
Fee Includes: all materials, kiln-firing, glaze. All tools supplied at the studio but attendees are welcome to bring their own tools if preferred.