Try your hand at throwing cups and bowls!

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 with the focus on bowls and cups.

Throughout the day we will practice clay preparation and measuring, throwing classic forms such as cups and bowls, then moving on to specific forms of your choice, for example, large and small bowls, tumblers, cups with handles and any variation of these forms. Important techniques such as 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.

Tutor Ed Hill will be on hand to provide step-by-step instructions and demonstrations, as well as continual guidance and tuition throughout. The beginning stages of throwing each shape will be broken down to further understanding the motions and stages needed to get a finished bowl or cup, or anything between!

By the end of the day you will have much more confidence in all aspects of throwing, knowledge of the pivotal steps and stages involved in throwing a range of shapes successfully, and a strong foundation for further ideas in throwing on the wheel.

Meet Your Tutor - Ed Hill

Ed is a ceramic artist currently working from a studio in Stroud. Ed graduated with a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth, 2014. 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.

Ed 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 Ed’s 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.

Ed 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.

Tutor: Ed Hill
Date & Time: Saturday 7th March, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Wheel Studio, New Brewery Arts
PRICE: £100.00 (£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. 

• Our on-site café Blend is open until 4pm each day.

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Who is this workshop for?

The workshop is suitable for those who have completed a beginners course or workshop in throwing, or those with a good level of throwing experience.

What you will need:

Please bring an apron or wear clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and a hand towel. Please note that clay will wash out of fabrics.

Please remove jewellery/watches and tie long hair back. We suggest trimming long nails for ease.

All materials and firings are included, 1 piece of work will be fired with a transparent or tin white glaze.

Firings take 6 weeks from the date of the workshop, you will be contacted as soon as your work is ready. Please collect and take it home as soon as possible.

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