At our adult workshops – Clay, Cava & Create or and Clay, Coffee & Create – you will learn the basics of hand building with clay and have the opportunity to create multiple pieces using different techniques.

The workshops are informal and allow students to explore, build skills, and make ceramic art based on their interests and imagination. The classes are also a chance to meet like-minded people and get in touch with your artistic side in a relaxed and friendly environment.

Skills you will learn include:

• Hand building techniques, including slab building, coiling, pinching and press moulding.
• Using tools to cut and shape clay, create patterns, and build unique structures.
• Adding texture with stamps, moulds, found objects and other tools
• Adding colour with slips and underglazes
• Adding further design through mono-printing and transfers
• Sgraffito, a decoration technique where slip is scratched off to reveal a contrasting colour below
• Glazing, You will learn about many types of glazes and methods application, and have the opportunity to experiment. The possibilities of glazing are endless and the techniques and patterns you can create with them have no limit. Glazing can take an ordinary ware and make it a work of art.