Pottery Classes

April 2nd 2025 | 19:00 – 21:30
Clavell & Hind:
‘Bubble Tankard’ Workshop

In this special external workshop we will be bringing creative pottery fun to ‘Clavell & Hind’ taproom in Cheltenham! You can enjoy an award-winning brew while creating your own hand-built 1/2 pint tankard, complete with a personalised message and decorated with bubble glaze inspired by the brewery!

£45 per person*

*Including the firing of one tankard and a 1/2 pint brew from the Clavell & Hind own-brew selection!

April 12th 2025 | 9:30 – 13:00
AROID ATTIC:
Step into the Greenhouse

We are once again collaborating with plant wonderland ‘Aroid Attic’ to bring you a fun, new one-off hand-building class for Beginners! In this Workshop you will create a ‘hard-slab’ greenhouse decorated with sgraffito and hand-painted with underglazes. You will then get to choose a plant from an amazing selection to take home on the day and, in a few weeks, put into your new greenhouse pot!

£60 per person*

*Including the firing of one greenhouse and one plant (up to size 7) provided by Aroid Attic!

Beginners Throwing 2.5HR Class

Join us for a 2.5 hour throwing class suitable for complete beginners or those who want a refresher of throwing at the wheel. Each class will start with a throwing demonstration from a professional potter followed by about 2 hours on the wheel then time at the end to clean up and choose a glaze for your favourite piece! Your finished pot will be ready for collection in 5-6 weeks. For more details click here.

£60 per person. If you’re interested, please Book Here.

Beginners ‘Make a Mug’ Class

Join us for a 3 hour slab-building class suitable for complete beginners. Over the duration of the class you will make your own slab mug using slabs of clay, templates and formers. You will be under the guidance of a professional potter for each step of the process and will have time to decorate your piece with cutters, stamps and underglaze colours. Your finished mug will be ready for collection after firing in 5-6 weeks. For more details click here.

£45 per person. If you’re interested, please Book Here.

6-Week Beginners Hand-Building Course

Designed for complete Beginners, this course covers the foundational Hand-Building Pottery skills necessary to create a range of projects including creating with coils, slabs and moulds as well as learning decorative techniques including using coloured slips, underglaze, stoneware glazes, paper resist, sgraffito and more! By the end of the course you will have a foundational knowledge that you can go onwards to use as an Independent Potter in the studio if you so wish. For more details including the 2025 course times and dates please click here.

£280 per person.
Includes the tuition of 6 sessions, independent studio time as well as the bisque and glaze firing of 4 projects.
This course runs in January, June and September.

6-Week Beginners Throwing Course

Suitable for complete beginners, this course offers in-depth tutoring of all of the foundational skills of throwing pottery on the wheel. Over 6 sessions you will guided by a professional potter through the processes of wedging, centering, coning, pulling and turning clay. In your fourth session you will choose four of your favourite pieces to be bisque fired and then in your final session you will learn to glaze your pieces which will then be fired and kept forever!

£295 per person.
Including the bisque and glaze firing of four pieces.

The next 6-Week Beginners Throwing Courses will run in May 2025, every Monday evening (May 5th – June 9th) & Wednesday evening (May 7th – June 11th), 18:00 – 20:30. They were released for booking March 14th.

2-Day Beginners Throwing Course (Weekend Intensive)

Suitable for Beginners, this course covers all of the foundational skills of throwing pottery on the wheel. Over 4 sessions (two full days) you will guided by a professional potter through the processes of wedging, centering, coning, pulling and turning clay – focusing primarily on the cylinder form. The aim of this course is not to create the ‘perfect’ piece but instead to ‘throw and throw away’ – for this reason no work will be fired but instead you will have access to unlimited clay to throw as much as you can for excellent practice.

£200 per person.
Please note that this price does not include the firing of any work.

Intermediate Throwing Course (4-Week or 2-Day Weekend Intensive Course)

Suitable as a follow-on from the Beginners Throwing classes, courses or if you would like to develop your existing throwing skills. Over 4 sessions you will be guided through improving your foundational throwing skills through cylinder practice before moving onto more complex forms including convex and concave. In your final session you will have some freedom to decide what you would like to practice which may include further throwing, turning or creating handles. Like our Beginners course, this course is ‘throw and throw away’ with access to unlimited clay for practice.

£200 per person.
Please note that this price does not include the firing of any work.