ANIMAL WALL MASKS
5th - 6th June

During this intensive two-day workshop students will hand build wall mounted animal masks of their pet or any wild animal.

TACTILE MEMORY: HAND BUILDING TEXTURED FORMS
7th - 11th June

During this course students will investigate processes of imprinting clay with texture, mark making and layering of ceramic materials and slab building to create a series of forms imbued with a sense of time, trace and place.

WHEEL THROWN PORCELAIN
14th - 18th June

This five-day workshop will focus on throwing a variety of vessels in porcelain. Through practice and with Chris’s guidance students will improve their throwing skills and develop their techniques in turning, applying handles and altering their thrown shapes.

PLAYFUL ANIMALS
19th - 20th June

During this two-day workshop students will learn to hand build playful animal sculptures and use tissue paper transfers and slips to decorate.

DYNAMIC SLIPWARE
21st - 24th June

During this workshop students will learn and develop new approaches to making and decorating slipware with an emphasis on action and spontaneity.

INTENSIVE THROWING
26th - 27th June

Within this intensive two-day weekend workshop, students will learn to throw bigger and lighter pots on the wheel.

PATTERNS, PRINTS & POTS
28th June - 2nd July

During this five-day hands-on workshop students will explore the relationship between drawing, printmaking and ceramics with ceramicist Emily Stubbs.

HAND BUILDING ANIMALS
5th - 8th July

Students will learn several different methods of hand building clay animal sculptures over this enjoyable weekend.

USING PORCELAIN TO BUILD CREATIVE VESSELS
9th - 11th July

During this three-day workshop, students will learn to create large or asymmetric vessels by throwing small porcelain components and using them as building-blocks.

THROWING LARGE
12th - 16th July

Within this large-scale throwing workshop, Tanya Gomez will guide students in combining thrown sections with coils and slabs to realise more complex forms.

FLOWER MAKING IN PORCELAIN
17th - 18th July

During this two-day workshop students will learn to sculpt and build a selection of porcelain flowers using press moulds and unique hand building techniques that will allow them to master the art of flower making.

HAND BUILDING & SURFACE TEXTURE
19th - 23rd July

This course will provide students with the unique opportunity to gain the practical experience of hand building, glazing and other surface texture techniques that Paul uses in the creation of his distinctive Ellipse and Cylinder forms.

FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE
13th - 14th September

During this two-day hand building workshop students learn how to construct a figurative sculpture using clay slabs, understand facial proportions, sculpt facial features, and develop their own artistic style through personal details and surface decoration.

FORM & PATTERN
15th - 17th September

In this three-day workshop students will learn how to prepare slabs for hand building architectural forms. Björk will demonstrate how to prepare and work the slabs to achieve the desired form. 

SLIP DECORATED KITCHENWARE
20th - 24th September

During this five-day workshop Frances Savage will teach a combination of throwing and altering techniques using terracotta clay as well as giving a thorough introduction to slip decoration using earthenware.

DESIGNING & MAKING TABLEWARE

Stuart Carey’s three-day throwing workshop will focus on designing and making functional, well-considered tableware. Participants will consider proportion, weight, rims, handles and visual coherence, while developing a small body of work in smooth white stoneware. 

ONE-DAY INTRODUCTION TO GLAZE MAKING
30th September

This comprehensive introduction to glaze making provides students the tools and understanding to begin developing glazes tailored to their own work starting from a base recipe.

THREE-DAY UNDERSTANDING GLAZE DEVELOPMENT IN DEPTH
1st October, 8th October and 15th October

This three-day course explores how glazes are built and why they behave as they do. Starting with the simplest possible glaze systems, each stage of testing builds on the last, with fired results analysed as the course progresses to create a continuous line of investigation.

CERAMIC ANIMALS
12th-14th October & 9th-10th November

Students will make a standing animal of their choice, as well as a wall-mounted animal head and a wall-mounted animal positioned in a dynamic pose, using James’s unique sculpting techniques.

SLAB BUILDING & SURFACE MARK MAKING
11th - 14th October

This course will focus on techniques for making clay slabs, constructing 3D forms from slabs and then incorporating mark making and surface texture to enhance the forms.

MISHIMA DECOR

“Mishima” is an original, graphic and refined decor technique. By sketch researching then with the creation of a coiled piece, students will discover the pleasure of this engraved decoration, playing with lines and colours.

HAND BUILDING WITH PORCELAIN: FLORAL VESSELS WITH DECALS AND LUSTRE
1st - 2nd November and 29th Nov - 1st December

During this five-day course, divided into two sessions, Toni De Jesus will teach students how to build porcelain vessels using the coiling technique. The vessels will then be adorned with porcelain flowers based on the students’ own designs and decorated with transfers and gold lustre.

FINDING FORM: SCULPTURAL COILING

Explore sculptural form through coiling and hand-building with Rachel Peters. Create abstract and figurative sculptures, with a focus on form, construction, refinement and responding intuitively to the clay.

THROWING & ALTERING PORCELAIN FORMS

This five-day workshop will explore throwing a variety of porcelain pieces in various shapes and sizes, then altering these thrown forms.

THROWING STATEMENT KITCHENWARE
23rd - 27th November

A five-day workshop designed to build fluency and efficiency in repetition throwing, making a range or pots to enhance the ceremony of eating and drinking.