Join ceramicist Ed Hill on this day workshop to improve your throwing technique!

This workshop will provide those who have completed a beginners throwing workshop or those with a good experience of throwing an ideal opportunity to brush up on essential skills and take the next step in trying new approaches to making wheel thrown forms. You’ll have the chance to improve and focus on specific shapes as-well as learning to throw new forms and develop new techniques to further your skills on the wheel.

Throughout the day we will practice clay preparation and measuring, throwing classic forms such as cups, bowls, plates, then moving on to different forms of your choice - such as jars, vases, bottles and pitchers. Important techniques such as throwing lids off the hump and throwing to specific measurements for repeat shapes will be demonstrated alongside ways to use specific tools to help in throwing and finishing forms on the wheel.

The workshop will be led with patient and friendly step-by-step instructions and demos, sharing of ideas, and continual guidance and tuition throughout.

You will leave this workshop with confidence in all aspects of throwing on the wheel and a fundamental understanding of the process and motions needed to create beautiful pottery. You will choose one piece from your day of throwing to be fired with a transparent or white glaze. 

Tutor: Ed Hill
Date & Time: Saturday 17th January, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Wheel Studio, New Brewery Arts
Price: £100 (£0.00 VAT)

Please note that this workshop is for those aged 18 and over.

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend until 4pm.

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Who is this workshop for?
Those who have completed a beginners throwing workshop or those with a good experience of throwing.

What you will need:
Please bring an apron or wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.

Please remove jewellery and tie hair back.

All materials and equipment are included. One piece of work will be kiln fired with a transparent or white glaze. Firings can take up to 6 weeks. We will contact you when your work is ready for collection.

Accommodation: 
Residential option available. Find out about our accommodation, costs and how to book here.

Meet Your Tutor - Ed Hill

Ed is a ceramic artist currently working from a studio in Stroud. His practice has evolved through painting into clay sculpture, ceramics and aspects of studio pottery, with wheel thrown forms, plates and painterly glaze application being a major focus. He has previously worked in a porcelain dinnerware company and apprenticed to a very well-established potter who specialised in handmade restaurant-ware and studio pottery . In these roles he gained a lot of experience in the material properties of clay and glaze , throwing, kiln firing and running studios.

In his own work he uses thrown forms as a ‘canvas’ to work on, making glazes from scratch and experiment with methods of surface, design, colour, application, raw materials, clay types and kiln firing using electric and gas. he is interested in making expressive work that is contemporary whilst containing references to ceramic movements of the 20th century. Emphasis is spent developing shapes that are personal and appealing whilst aiming for a timelessness, warmth of feeling and atmosphere.