Weekly small-group sessions with specialist guidance from Elaine in working with porcelain and stoneware.
The group will be no more than 4 people
When
Tuesday evening 5.30-7.45pm
In a block of six-weeks
Upcoming dates: TBC
Dates in 2025 to be confirmed. Send me an email if you would like to be updated about the next workshops.
Where
My studio is a beautiful old converted barn on the edge of Ditchling Common.
The studio has on-site parking and can be reached easily from Ditchling and Burgess Hill by bike or car.
Find me at:
Pollards Farm Cottage, Ditchling Road, Ditchling Common, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 0SE
How much
£360 per person for a block of six sessions each 2hrs 15mins long
The cost includes clay, glazes and firings *
What will we do
I will demonstrate techniques as well as guiding you in what you’d like to make. The sessions will be tailored to you as much as possible. Techniques can include slab building, coiling, pinching, decorating with slips, glazing and using oxides, alongside more advanced options such as colouring clay and using mixed media.
The focus of the sessions will be on hand-building. Separate sessions are available to book for throwing if you would like to try that.
There will be a stool available for each of you around a central workbench for demonstrations and for working on hand-building projects.
The classes offer guidance and support for your own ideas or you can choose to follow set projects using porcelain and stoneware, slips and glazes, including:
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- making decorative spoons
- cheese platters with stencil surface decoration,
- hand-built stoneware vases and jugs, or slab-built flower bricks
- pinched and coiled mugs.
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Clays and glazes available:
• Porcelain
• Stoneware
• Coloured slips and oxides
• A satin opaque glaze and a transparent glaze
* Very large pieces and/or large quantities of work made may have to be charged a little extra if necessary. This will need to be discussed with me during the sessions.
Firings
Items made during the six week course will be fired for you. Finished work will need to be biscuit fired in week five (if sufficiently dry) and you can glaze them (if required) in week six.
All fired work will be available to be collected from the studio within six weeks of the end of the course.
Cancellations:
If you need to cancel, some cancellation fees are necessary as it is rarely possible for me to fill the space at short notice.
See pdf below for full terms and conditions
ESBolt Handbuilding course April 2025
