We now offer a Gift Voucher for our Pottery Courses. We can email or post your voucher to you or alternatively, you’d be welcome to pop into the studio to collect it. We also have pottery tool sets and bags of clay that you can gift alongside your voucher.
Once the voucher is gifted please contact finola@fishpondspottery.co.uk as soon as possible to book onto a course.
Cost £280
Gentle introduction to throwing on the pottery wheel, the first session is all about learning the way of how to handle clay on the pottery wheel. The first session is to ensure your knowledge of the preparations needed for throwing.
The most effective way to learn the craft of throwing on the wheel is persistence; you learn from making mistakes. Everyone’s abilities to learn throwing is unique, at ridgeway we have created an environment to let you the student have tranquillity and space to find your own throwing style. Persistence is the main lesson, getting your hands used to working with tools and clay in a rhythm that suits. One to one direction on the wheel is provided to guide you through any difficulties and smooth over any worries to make you feel stronger and ready for the next session.
Learning how to throw consistently is a skill that requires time and patience, session three is a crash course into pushing your limits to what you have already learnt to insure you have hit criteria at this stage you are happy with.
In the last session you have the freedom to use your new skills and create your own work. By this point of the course you will have found your own style.
