This 6-week course helps refine your handbuilding skills through a self-diagnostic approach, with the option to work on a project or explore techniques freely. Supported by tutor guidance and studio tools, you’ll create and decorate functional or sculptural pots, finishing in Week 6 by glazing your work with Sunken Studio's dipping glazes.

Prerequisites: beginner's knowledge of handbuilding.

In this overview of handbuilding techniques for beginners, you will learn about key handbuilding techniques and how to glaze your own pots. At the end of the course you will be able to identify and select appropriate techniques and processes to make and decorate basic functional pots.

Our Handbuilding Courses offer a structured approach to learning various bench-based techniques. Whether you’re interested in functional ceramics or figurative sculpture, these courses cater to both beginners and those looking to refine and expand their skills.

Join us for pottery deliciousness. We’re portioning a range of pottery making techniques into bite-sized samplings for our pot luck.

Learn how to use bench-based handbuilding techniques to make pots without a potter's wheel. Course content changes and what we'll be making is a surprise! Fancy taking your chances?

Prerequisites: none

Duration: 1.5 hours

Make a mug for your favourite brew. Need room for a decent cuppa, or is espresso more your thing?

Learn how to make a mug body, make playful handles, and embellish your mug with impressed and moulded decoration.

Your mug will then be fired to stoneware temperature with our glossy transparent glaze to make it ready for use.

Content:

Making mug bodies and handles, body and hand awareness, clay management, finishing and finesse, impressed and moulded decoration.

Prerequisites: none

Fast and filthy. Have a go on a potter’s wheel.

Your experienced tutor will guide you through the steps needed to centre, cone, open, and lift clay on a potter's wheel. They will help you overcome common frustrations of wheel work, and focus on enjoying this uniquely tactile process in a supportive environment. 

Content:

Wheel control, posture, centering, coning, opening up, collaring in, lifting a wall, compressing walls and rims, using a rib, wiring-off, wipe down.

Prerequisites: none

Find out what happens when three textile artists from the Netherlands meet three textile artists from Yorkshire.

Loops is a large-scale collaborative artwork by six talented artists centred around the theme of cycles, circles and continuums. Many months in the making and many miles apart, this is a truly unique celebration of international collaboration and the lasting allure of textiles.

The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 10-4, Sunday 12-4 and closed on Mondays. 

Blenheim Walk Gallery is pleased to present 'Still. Stray. Stowaway.', a solo exhibition by Paula Chambers, curated by Marianna Tsionki. Her sculptural practice interrogates the domestic sphere as a contested site of feminist resistance, material transformation, and personal negotiation. In 'Still. Stray.