​July 20 - 23

​9:30 - 13:00

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In English and/or Dutch

Number of participants: 8 (min. 6)

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Our popular multiple-weeks wheel throwing course compressed in 4 consecutive intensive mornings. Come less times, but learn faster. How does it work?

 

This intensive introduction course into making pottery on the potter’s wheel runs over 4 consecutive days. It is an immersive morning course in which you will learn all the basics you need to be able to make beautiful cups and bowls. It gives each participant the chance to one-on-one learning from a professional potter with more than 20 years teaching experience. It also gives everyone each day plenty of focused time to practice on their own which is essential in the learning process. These two aspects combined make it that the learning curve is very steep and the excitement of making rapid progress is exhilarating.

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Each class focuses exclusively on making techniques, the course does not include a glazing class (glazing info see below).

 

This course at The Clay Table is suitable for complete beginners and intermediate learners and it is an amazing way to spend some free time in a meaningful way. Advanced learners are also most welcome (see below)

 

Levels

Beginner: never worked on the pottery wheel or took a One time wheel throwing workshop. 

What you will learn: wedging, centring 400 - 500 gr, making cups and bowls, up to 8 (or 2 kg)

 

Intermediate: have taken a multiple-class course, are familiar with wedging, centring up to 400 gr. of clay, making and shaping cups and bowls, 

What you will learn: improve wedging and centring, choice between: making bigger items or learning more complex techniques.

 

Advanced: very familiar with all basic techniques, want to improve specific skills or throw bigger

What you will learn: throw with 1 - 1,5 kg clay, make a teapot from 2 identical bowls

 

Mijke Anink is teaching Wheel throwing all levels and Advanced Hand Building in our studio. Read more about her on our team page

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Depending on the course registration, the classes will be bilingual Dutch and English, only Dutch or only English.

Depending on course registration, the course will be beginners only or all levels.

 

Techniques

Preparing clay / wedging

Which tools you need and how to use them

Throwing pots on the potter’s wheel

Making and attaching handles

Carving, shaping by hand

Using decorating slips

Sgraffito decorating

Making cylinders and bowls on the wheel

Trimming pots to refine the shape

Making foot rings

 

Included in the course

Premium stoneware white clay, all needed tools and materials, up to 2 kg of (glazed) fired items (above 2kg, the cost is 15€ per kilogram). 

The studio provides special wheel throwing aprons. 

Each day there is a coffee and snack break provided by the team.

Bring: 1 towel, sketch/notebook (useful, not mandatory)

Important note: wheel throwing requires short nails. It is not possible to work properly with (very) long nails or nails with embezzling.

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Course structure

This course consists of 4 sessions. Each session is a lesson of 3,5 hours (including coffee break and cleaning up at the end of the lesson). 

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Session 1: Introduction to ceramic materials and the processes of making and firing ceramics, as well as Health & Safety in the studio. You will learn how to prepare your clay and start working on your first project.

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Sessions 2-3: Participants continue to work on their projects while the teacher introduces new techniques to build on your skills, including handles, trimming and decorating. Plenty of one-one-one time Wirth teacher but also everyone get to work focused on their own to practice.

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Session 4: This session is dedicated to getting your pots ready to be dried and bisque fired. You will be given the choice between 3-4 glazes (studio selection) for the glazing of subsequent glazing of your pots by the studio team. Each participant decides on which learned technique they want to practice during the remaining time (no pots are further kept)

 

After the course

All pots will be dried in the studio 1-2 weeks, followed by: bisque firing, glazing session by studio team, glaze firing. 

Ceramics masking is a slow process and each pottery studio has many processes and different schedules and complex planning of activities which must be taken into consideration. In ours studio this means that all courses have a pickup deadline of (no longer than) 6 weeks.

 

Important info

Please be sure that you can attend all of the scheduled lesson dates before you sign up. It is also particularly important that you are on time at each session, otherwise you may struggle to keep up with the rest of the group or end up with unfinished projects at the end of the course. It is not possible to get extra sessions if you do not attend your scheduled lesson.

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Cancellation and Refunds

Our policy specific to courses of several lessons or weeks is as follows:

More than 28 days before the first lesson: a full refund, minus a €10 administration fee. 

More than 14 days before the first lesson: 50% refund, minus a €10 administration fee.

Within 14 days of the course start date: the course fee is non-refundable, unless we can transfer your place to someone on the general waiting list. In that case, a €10 administration fee will also be charged.

Alternatively, you can transfer your booking directly to a friend. In that case, we ask you to notify us 24 hours before the start of the first lesson. 

Once the course has started, no refunds will be given under any circumstances, nor can we transfer you to a later or different course. We cannot deviate from this policy for any reason. 

To request a cancellation or refund, please send an email to info@theclaytable.nl

If a class is not sufficiently full, we may cancel it up to 48h before the start of the first lesson.

Read the full terms and conditions here