Six Thursday evenings · 6:30-8:30pm · Maximum 4 adult students · £280 · Bere Alston ·

Learn the complete process of making pottery on the wheel in a relaxed six-week course with Ruth, The Tamar Valley Potter. With just four places available, you'll have your own wheel and plenty of individual tuition as you build your skills week by week. We'll start with the fundamentals of centring and throwing before moving on to trimming, shaping, handles, sgraffito decoration and glazing. For complete beginners and practiced potters!

Timetable:

• W1: Wedging + Throwing

• W2: Trimming + Throwing

• W3: Trimming + Throwing + Handles

• W4: Trimming + Throwing + Decoration (optional)

• W5: Trimming + Handles + Decoration (optional)

• W6: Glazing

Included:

• 5kg of reclaimed ‘practice’ clay

• 5kg of smooth white stoneware clay

• 5kg of grogged, flecked stoneware clay

• 4 stoneware glazes (including clear)

• Opportunity to decorate pots using a variety of coloured slips and/or sgraffito technique

• All tools and equipment

• Use of a wheel each

• Upto 8 pots fired in the kiln (bisque and glaze firings)

• Storage and drying space for work produced

• Tea, coffee and biscuits at each session

Optional Extras:

• If you’d like to keep more than the included 8 pots, there is a £6 charge per additional pot to cover glaze and firings.

• Extra clay can be bought by 5kg or 10kg.

10kg reclaim=£5



10kg smooth white =£13



10kg grogged, flecked =£20

Location:

• South Hooe Farm, Bere Alston, Devon, PL20 7BW. (Follow the orange arrows on the lane as you get close)

• Just google ‘The Tamar Valley Potter’ and follow directions to our door! Also pinned on Apple Maps. Recommended!

• Ground floor studio. Free parking. Toilet.

Please note:

• Customers must be over 16 years old.

• There is no reminder email so please write down the location, time and dates of the course.

• I cannot give refunds to courses and workshops, however, you can gift the whole experience to someone who can attend