Throwing on the Wheel, all levels, with Schneider - 5-week course for adults

Available dates:

All courses are on a Thursday evening and last for 5 weeks. Cost is £200. 

• Starting Thursday 29 Feb, 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
  

During the weekly 2-hour sessions:

• Beginners will have a first go at centering clay on the wheel, throwing cylinders and bowls.
• More advanced students will learn how to throw bigger and more challenging shapes.
• You will also learn how to finish your pots and how to glaze them.
• You can keep up to six pots which will be fired for you at the end of this course. The cost of all materials and firings are included in your course fee.

Please note:

• This course is for adults, over 18. Separate courses will be available for the 11-18 age group.
• Throwing on the wheel can be a messy business and aprons will not be provided. Please wear appropriate clothing.

About the teacher: Schneider

• This course will be led by Schneider
• Schneider makes functional and sculptural ceramics. Her tableware is thrown, often decorated with mono-print slip transfers. Her sculptures use the full palette of ceramic techniques - including throwing, slab building, slip casting, combining different clays and materials.
• Schneider studied Performance Art / Experimental Film at Berlin Art College, but turned potter afterwards, studying Ceramics at City & Guilds in London.
• Instagram: @whatisschneider

Terms & Conditions

• Please read our Terms and Conditions here and in particular please note our policy on refunds and exchanges. Tick the box at check out to indicate you have read them.
• We offer bursary tickets (half price) to those who currently receive any of the following: Pension Credit, Universal Credit Disability Benefit, Income Support or Job Seekers allowance. Please email pottery@bellhouse.co.uk to get your half price voucher.

Feedback from previous courses:

• 'Schneider was great!'
  
• 'I loved this short course. I’d like to book another one in January when we could have more time practising on the wheel.'
  
• 'The beginners on the course turned out some good stuff considering they were beginners. Good course!

Examples of students' work from previous courses