Courses By Type - Decoration
- - Beginners
- Diploma/BTEC
- Mixed ability
- Reduction firing
- Smoke Firing
- - Intermediate
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- Stoneware
- - Professional
- Evening & Day
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- Summer & Weekend
- Anagama
- General
- Mould Making
- Residential Courses
- Summer schools
- Big Pot making
- Glazes & Surfaces
- One to one tuition
- Saggar firing
- Supported Starter Studio
- Children's
- Hand-Building
- Porcelain
- Saltglaze
- Teapot making
- Coiling
- Jewellery
- Potter's Workshop
- Sculpture
- Throwing
- Corporate/Team Building
- Jug Making
- Pottery parties
- Slip casting
- Tours - China/Asia
- Decoration
- Kiln workshop
- Printing on Clay
- Slipware
- Wood-fired
- Demonstrations
- Majolica
- Raku
| 5 Day earthenware throwing and slip-decorating: Patia Davis with guest Niek Hoogland :: July 10, 2013 to July 14, 2013
Brand new for 2013, Patia leads an exploration of throwing and slip-decoration using earthenware clay. |
| 3 day throwing, stoneware – Improvers: Jeremy Steward :: August 02, 2013 to August 04, 2013
This course offers opportunity for makers across all levels of ability to improve upon their range of skills and techniques in thrown stoneware. |
| Altering and Decorating Thrown Forms - John Calver :: August 12, 2013 to August 16, 2013
A 5 day residential course run by John Calver. He will be giving group and one to one tuition |
| Slipware Courses 2013 - Mark Titchiner :: July 22, 2013 to July 26, 2013
The aim of this course is to have some fun by taking a few risks with free form slip decoration, to spice up decorating skills and improve students' making skills with throwing or slab-work. |
| Slipware Courses 2013 - Mark Titchiner :: August 19, 2013 to August 23, 2013
The aim of this course is to have some fun by taking a few risks with free form slip decoration, to spice up decorating skills and improve students' making skills with throwing or slab-work. |
| FULL DAY POTTERY CLASSES (1st Saturday of month) with Paul Jessop :: April 06, 2013 to October 05, 2013
Pottery class to be held on the First Saturday of every Month between March - October 2013 |
| A practical glazing day - Alison Sandeman at West Dean :: July 21, 2013 to July 21, 2013
Glaze pots you have made on an earlier pottery course at the College, and left behind for firing. |
| Sculptural ceramics and painterly surfaces - Carolyn Genders at West Dean :: July 27, 2013 to August 02, 2013
Explore your personal responses to the landscape of West Dean to develop sculptural forms working with white earthenware. You use drawings, photographs, small models and test pieces to evolve ideas for both shapes, surface decoration and texture. Oxide slips and colour washes are used to create painterly surfaces that add depth and textures to compliment the pieces created. (residential available) |
| Exploring porcelain form and surface - Jack Doherty at West Dean :: August 03, 2013 to August 09, 2013
Explore the intrinsic plastic nature of porcelain clay and develop an understanding of surface quality and pattern as you create forms inspired by manmade and natural surfaces. (residential available) |
| Decorated slab vessels - Carolyn Genders at West Dean :: October 11, 2013 to October 13, 2013
Explore a refreshing new way to make slip decorated colourful vessels. Terracotta clay slabs are decorated flat with richly coloured slips and then turned into vessels, giving a spontaneous feel to the shapes and forms. |
| A practical glazing and decorating weekend - Alison Sandeman at West Dean :: October 18, 2013 to October 20, 2013
Learn to glaze and decorate pots that you have either made on an earlier pottery course at the College or in your own studio. Guidance is given on making glazes from recipes, application of glazes and pigments and wax resist as decorating mediums. |
| Longfield Studios Pottery Courses with Nicola Scott-Taylor :: April 22, 2013 to June 30, 2013
Enjoy couples or family workshops or pottery party for children (seat 15) in seclusion of private studio alongside Sheen Common. Learn how to make an object, decorate with texture, resists & scrafitto, melted glass etc., fire and glaze with professional tuition. |
| Design and build your own bowl with sgraffito decoration :: August 17, 2013 to August 17, 2013
This one day workshop will take you through the process of coiling a bowl which can then be painted with coloured decorating slips. |



