Nerd Club ~ Beginner’s Handbuilding Pottery Course
7.30~9pm, Wednesdays 17th/24th September + 1st/8th/15th October
This September we are bringing back our nerd club, a course to learn the basics of hand building ceramics.
Held in our West Norwood based Ceramic Studio, you get a full dose of your new favourite hobby!
We’ve made some tweaks to the original course to utilise making time and to give you even more to find your preferred technique to put into your final project at the end! Book in to start your new hobby!
Week 1 : Introduction to handbuilding in a casual lecture format covering all the basics, you will receive two types of clay to make pinch pots during the class and keep your hands busy.
Week 2 : Making techniques covering slab building, coiling, slumping.
Week 3 : Decorating techniques covering sgraffito with underglaze, lava glazing and dip glazing.
Week 4+5 : Self lead project where you gather the skills learnt in the previous weeks to make a piece of your own. Using your preferred techniques and getting to get a bit more creative. We will be there to guide and facilitate anything you’d like to make.
Seamus Jennings x Firing Station ~
Halloween Caricature Platter Workshop
7.00~9pm, Friday 24th October
Halloween Caricature Platter Workshop
Seamus is back in the Firing Station Studio to collaborate with us on another gorgeous caricature workshop, this time with a sprinkle of spooky season.
Inspired by the amount of kitsch decorative plates and royal memorabilia cluttering the houses of people up and down the country, Seamus Jennings is here to update the humble decorative plate in a fun new style of workshop.
In this workshop, you will learn from a published cartoonist (The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, and more) the art of drawing a caricature cartoon with Halloween influence. You will then make your own ceramic platter, facilitated by Firing Station, that you’ll transfer your drawings on to. Seamus will share about his creative practice and teach you how to bring lots of life and expression into your artwork. You’ll then come away with gorgeous glazed ceramic plate bearing your own drawing!!
Dinner Club~ Make Your Own Dinner Set 4 Week Ceramic Course
7.30~9pm, Thursdays 6th/13th/20th/27th November
This September we are bringing back our Dinner Club, a course dedicated to making your very own dinner sets.
Held in our West Norwood based Ceramic Studio, you get a full dose of your new favourite hobby!
Whether you have experience in ceramics or not, we are here to guide you! This is a unique class that allows you to plan, design and build your set, for your home or as a gift to a family member. All skills leart during the course are transferable, allowing you to make further pieces after the course for loved ones for xmas or as gifts.
Week 1 : We kick off the course designing and building your very own plate/dish sets.
Week 2 : This week we look at diferent platter, dishes and bowls for serving up from. We work with you to find the best technique to build the piece.
Week 3 : For this week we look at different ways of adding candle lighting to your meal. Once tackling your design we use different techniques to construct candle holders/candleabras.
Week 4 : Having spent all your previous weeks building and constructing we add the final icing to the cake - learning decorating techniques covering sgraffito with underglaze, paint on glazing, lava glazing and dip glazing as options.