Description
Curriculum Highlights:
Clay Preparation & Quality Control: Further refine your clay preparation methods, ensuring consistent results and the perfect canvas for more complex throwing techniques.
Advanced Centring & Throwing: Strengthen your control over centring and forming clay, enabling you to confidently tackle more challenging shapes and larger-scale pieces.
Exploring Complex Forms: Move beyond basic cylinders and bowls to experiment with lidded jars, teapots, altered forms, and other sophisticated vessel shapes.
Refined Trimming & Finishing Techniques: Hone your trimming skills to achieve cleaner lines, sharper profiles, and more elegant finishes, enhancing both the functional and aesthetic qualities of your work.
Handles, Spouts & Lids: Perfect the art of adding functional components—such as handles, spouts, and lids—to create fully integrated pieces that reflect your evolving craftsmanship.
Commitment Requirement:
As with all wheel-throwing endeavours, progress comes with consistent practice and commitment. You’ll invest time refining techniques through a series of exercises. This class encourages persistence and patience, ensuring that as you experiment and refine, you’ll steadily build a portfolio of work that reflects your personal evolution as a potter.
Prerequisite:
This class is designed for individuals who have basic to intermediate experience working on the potter’s wheel. If you’ve completed a beginner class or have foundational skills, you’ll be well-prepared to embrace the challenges of more advanced forms and finishing techniques. This ensures you can fully engage with the material and confidently expand your wheel-throwing repertoire.
Join us on this journey to elevate your pottery practice! Dive deeper into the world of wheel-thrown ceramics, refine your techniques, and enjoy the freedom to explore new forms. Whether you’re an enthusiast aiming to grow or a seasoned practitioner seeking fresh inspiration, this Open Pottery Wheel class will empower you to refine and express your creative vision.
Tutor: Kathy Thorpe
Term 1: | 3 February | 7 April | |
Term 2: | 28 April | 23 June | |
Term 3: | 14 July | 15 September | |
Term 4: | 6 October | 8 December |
Enrolment fee: $295.00 (incl. GST)
The enrolment fee does not include clay, glaze, and firing costs.
Where: This class is held at our KudoClay Studio, 4/11 Homersham Place, Burnside, Christchurch.
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