Week Intensive - 6 Days

£600

This course runs from Monday July 15th to Friday July 19th 2024 from 10am to 4.30pm. With a glazing day on Friday September 6th from 10am to 4.30pm. Taught by Lindy Barletta.

This week intensive is perfect for potters looking to push their skills and progress to larger, more challenging forms. This course is for adults aged 18 plus and is designed for improvers, intermediate and advanced makers.

The course will cover some of or possibly all of the below depending on time:

Day 1: (July 15th) Prepping and centering larger amounts of clay. Throwing large bowls to certain diameter with a view to joining as moon jars or lamp bases.

Day 2: (July 16th) Joining leather hard parts or adding coils and throwing Japanese sushi plates from a baseless cylinder (or incense burners).

Day 3: (July 17th) Square Oven dish, thrown and altered, with handles Throwing large plates and platters .

Day 4: (July 18th) Throwing off the hump. Set of saki cups, saki jug and 2.5kg tray. Turning work from day 1-3

Day 5: (July 19th) Finishing off any work left, slip and incising leather-hard work, decorating moon jars. Can also be used as a free throwing practise session.

Day 6: (September 6th) Glazing all of the above mentioned work. Demonstrations in dipping, pouring, spraying, use of underglaze and oxides in decoration.

Additional class information …

Please bring an apron (or 2!), notebook and favourite tools if you have any. We will break for an hour lunch around midday, lunch will not be provided but we encourage you to bring a packed lunch or there are many local cafes/shops.

The course has a maximum of 6 people. The £600 includes tuition, equipment, practise clay (work not fired). The course fee will include a firing allowance of 4kilos at leatherhard stage. But we don’t want to curtail your creativitiy or productivitiy - so you can weigh and pay for additional fired work at £10 per kilo to include 2 firings and glaze. Participants must be available for all dates of the course.

For specialist courses we have a cancellation policy of up to one week before the course start date. A full refund will be issued, minus 10% taken as a handling fee. If you cancel less than one week before the course start date the course is non refundable. If you are unable to attend or miss a session whilst the course is ongoing this is non refundable.