June Start - 5 WEEK POTTERY COURSE
5 Week Pottery Course
Starting on Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th June
This five week course will teach you the fundamentals of the pottery techniques of throwing, hand-building, glazing and Raku. Your time will be balanced between slab, press-moulding, and hand-building, glazing/decorating with coloured slips and throwing.
The throwing element of the course is progressive starting with simple ‘tapas’ style dishes through to bowls and mugs/jugs: focusing on a different form each week. Initially if you have not worked on the wheel before you will be given close support, then later in the course you will be encouraged to develop your centring and shaping skills by repetition and practice.
You will have the opportunity to be very hands on and make a range of items to your own design in all the techniques such as tableware, jewellery, vessels, sculpture, tiles etc.
The course is designed to be fun and therapeutic as well as sociable – make some beautiful ceramics and some new friends. Courses take place at the beautiful Vallis Farm, a bio dynamic organic farm and community hub just outside of the vibrant Somerset town of Frome.
DATES AND TIMES
5 consecutive weeks starting first week of June
TUTOR
Kim Birchall
COURSE PRICE - £150
Materials and firing to be charged at cost.
*Materials cost varies, on average the spend for 4 weeks is £25 - £35, this is for a large selection of pieces such as bowls, cups, dishes, tiles, Raku pieces etc, however if you are making very large sculptures then obviously it will cost more for firing and this can be discussed. Similarly if you are making smaller pieces, such as jewellery or buttons then it will cost considerably less. No profit is made on materials or firing, it is purely to cover costs of the resources of clay, glazes and primarily the energy cost of the kiln.
*All tools and materials are provided including spare aprons, but do bring an apron or overalls if you have them. Please wear clothes that you won't mind getting a bit of clay on, it does all wash off however. comfortable practical shoes are best in the pottery.
🌱 The environmental policy of this pottery studio has always been to respect our planets resources as much as possible. The energy used to power kilns (to as high as 1280 degrees sometimes) is great, I have always used a green tariff that buys the units used back from a renewable source. The kilns themselves are ‘eco’ kilns, highly insulated to be as energy efficient as possible. Wherever possible the kilns are fired lower to conserve energy too. All the clay offcuts, scraps, and pots that have gone wrong (it happens) are recycled to be reused, nothing is wasted. With the glazes, as much as possible is made on site from raw materials, therefore cutting down on plastic waste from commercially produced glazes.
Finding the pottery: Somerset Ceramics is Listed on Google Maps, so if you have that, it will bring you straight to the pottery. Otherwise use postcode BA11 3JQ. There is plenty of parking at the farm or if you wish to walk and cycle, there are footpaths directly from Frome, and we are close to the main cycle route.
5 Week Pottery Course
Starting on Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th June
This five week course will teach you the fundamentals of the pottery techniques of throwing, hand-building, glazing and Raku. Your time will be balanced between slab, press-moulding, and hand-building, glazing/decorating with coloured slips and throwing.
The throwing element of the course is progressive starting with simple ‘tapas’ style dishes through to bowls and mugs/jugs: focusing on a different form each week. Initially if you have not worked on the wheel before you will be given close support, then later in the course you will be encouraged to develop your centring and shaping skills by repetition and practice.
You will have the opportunity to be very hands on and make a range of items to your own design in all the techniques such as tableware, jewellery, vessels, sculpture, tiles etc.
The course is designed to be fun and therapeutic as well as sociable – make some beautiful ceramics and some new friends. Courses take place at the beautiful Vallis Farm, a bio dynamic organic farm and community hub just outside of the vibrant Somerset town of Frome.
DATES AND TIMES
5 consecutive weeks starting first week of June
TUTOR
Kim Birchall
COURSE PRICE - £150
Materials and firing to be charged at cost.
*Materials cost varies, on average the spend for 4 weeks is £25 - £35, this is for a large selection of pieces such as bowls, cups, dishes, tiles, Raku pieces etc, however if you are making very large sculptures then obviously it will cost more for firing and this can be discussed. Similarly if you are making smaller pieces, such as jewellery or buttons then it will cost considerably less. No profit is made on materials or firing, it is purely to cover costs of the resources of clay, glazes and primarily the energy cost of the kiln.
*All tools and materials are provided including spare aprons, but do bring an apron or overalls if you have them. Please wear clothes that you won't mind getting a bit of clay on, it does all wash off however. comfortable practical shoes are best in the pottery.
🌱 The environmental policy of this pottery studio has always been to respect our planets resources as much as possible. The energy used to power kilns (to as high as 1280 degrees sometimes) is great, I have always used a green tariff that buys the units used back from a renewable source. The kilns themselves are ‘eco’ kilns, highly insulated to be as energy efficient as possible. Wherever possible the kilns are fired lower to conserve energy too. All the clay offcuts, scraps, and pots that have gone wrong (it happens) are recycled to be reused, nothing is wasted. With the glazes, as much as possible is made on site from raw materials, therefore cutting down on plastic waste from commercially produced glazes.
Finding the pottery: Somerset Ceramics is Listed on Google Maps, so if you have that, it will bring you straight to the pottery. Otherwise use postcode BA11 3JQ. There is plenty of parking at the farm or if you wish to walk and cycle, there are footpaths directly from Frome, and we are close to the main cycle route.
5 Week Pottery Course
Starting on Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th June
This five week course will teach you the fundamentals of the pottery techniques of throwing, hand-building, glazing and Raku. Your time will be balanced between slab, press-moulding, and hand-building, glazing/decorating with coloured slips and throwing.
The throwing element of the course is progressive starting with simple ‘tapas’ style dishes through to bowls and mugs/jugs: focusing on a different form each week. Initially if you have not worked on the wheel before you will be given close support, then later in the course you will be encouraged to develop your centring and shaping skills by repetition and practice.
You will have the opportunity to be very hands on and make a range of items to your own design in all the techniques such as tableware, jewellery, vessels, sculpture, tiles etc.
The course is designed to be fun and therapeutic as well as sociable – make some beautiful ceramics and some new friends. Courses take place at the beautiful Vallis Farm, a bio dynamic organic farm and community hub just outside of the vibrant Somerset town of Frome.
DATES AND TIMES
5 consecutive weeks starting first week of June
TUTOR
Kim Birchall
COURSE PRICE - £150
Materials and firing to be charged at cost.
*Materials cost varies, on average the spend for 4 weeks is £25 - £35, this is for a large selection of pieces such as bowls, cups, dishes, tiles, Raku pieces etc, however if you are making very large sculptures then obviously it will cost more for firing and this can be discussed. Similarly if you are making smaller pieces, such as jewellery or buttons then it will cost considerably less. No profit is made on materials or firing, it is purely to cover costs of the resources of clay, glazes and primarily the energy cost of the kiln.
*All tools and materials are provided including spare aprons, but do bring an apron or overalls if you have them. Please wear clothes that you won't mind getting a bit of clay on, it does all wash off however. comfortable practical shoes are best in the pottery.
🌱 The environmental policy of this pottery studio has always been to respect our planets resources as much as possible. The energy used to power kilns (to as high as 1280 degrees sometimes) is great, I have always used a green tariff that buys the units used back from a renewable source. The kilns themselves are ‘eco’ kilns, highly insulated to be as energy efficient as possible. Wherever possible the kilns are fired lower to conserve energy too. All the clay offcuts, scraps, and pots that have gone wrong (it happens) are recycled to be reused, nothing is wasted. With the glazes, as much as possible is made on site from raw materials, therefore cutting down on plastic waste from commercially produced glazes.
Finding the pottery: Somerset Ceramics is Listed on Google Maps, so if you have that, it will bring you straight to the pottery. Otherwise use postcode BA11 3JQ. There is plenty of parking at the farm or if you wish to walk and cycle, there are footpaths directly from Frome, and we are close to the main cycle route.