Course overview

This course is designed to help you be more creative within the clay medium, explore and experiment, a chance to develop further creatively pottery skills and build-up more knowledge of the different hand-building pottery techniques. Enabling you to experiment and expand your own style working with clay, as well as discovering different decorative styles and the use of different colourful paints/glazes. Lots of inspired designing encouragement too, there will be much discussion touching on a little history of pottery and looking several different styles of well-known potters and potteries throughout the world, who use the different techniques that we will be touch on over the course within each session. A refresher of new and known clay building skill, join this course with enthusiasm to share and develop your own knowledge and skills of pottery with others.

Course description

This course is design to help you develop further knowledge and understanding of several different clay techniques and be very creative, expanding own knowledge and understanding of different hand-building pottery techniques, in turn enabling you to expand your own style working within the clay medium and using several decorative techniques with a variety of different colourful paints. There will also be lots of discussion touching on a little history of pottery and looking into several different well-known potters who work with the techniques shown at each session overall within the course. Building up and showing a refresher of new and known clay building skills, designing and creating own images within clay building techniques, join this course with enthusiasm to share and develop your own knowledge and skills of pottery with others.

What financial support is available?

We don't want anything to stand in your way when it comes to bringing Adult learning within reach so if you need anything to support you to achieve your goals then speak to one of our education experts during your enrolment journey. Most of our courses are government funded but if you don't qualify or need alternative financial help to access them then let us know.

What other support is available?

All of our digital content, teaching and learning activities and assessments are designed to be accessible so if you need any additional support you can discuss this with the education experts during your enrolment journey and we will do all we can to make sure you have optimal access.

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