- Intermediate to Advanced Classes
- TERRACOTTA SLIPWARE | INTERMEDIATE
TERRACOTTA SLIPWARE | INTERMEDIATE
TERRACOTTA SLIPWARE | INTERMEDIATE
Taught by Guest Potter Frances Savage - Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of July from 11:00 to 17:00
This two-day workshop explores the expressive possibilities of low-fired terracotta slipware for functional kitchenware.
Over the weekend, you’ll focus on throwing and altering low, wide forms on the potter’s wheel using terracotta clay. On the first day, the group will explore how to create a range of baking dishes - from oval and rectangular to square forms - by manipulating clay directly from the wheel. These soft, open forms will be shaped and altered using a few different techniques, encouraging a playful and intuitive approach to making.
The second day will be dedicated to refining your pieces, adding handles or lugs, and preparing the surfaces for decoration. You’ll be introduced to the tradition and technique of using slip in earthenware, with time to experiment and develop your own style of decoration. Frances will guide you through methods such as slip trailing, marbling, feathering, and other expressive gestures that bring life and movement to your pots. By the end of the course, you’ll have a small collection of slip-decorated terracotta kitchenware, rich with personality and grounded in tradition.
Frances is a Manchester-based potter with a deep love for creating pieces that are joyful to use and full of warmth. Her current body of work explores British slipware traditions and folklore, reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens to make tactile, friendly forms for the table. Influenced by medieval pottery and the rhythms of domestic life, her work features generous curves, playful handles, and slipped surfaces that carry the visible traces of the maker’s hand. Frances creates her pots at the Manchester Ceramics Collective, where she continues to investigate the intimate relationship between people and handmade objects.
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General Class Information…
This weekend classes will run from 11:00 - 17:00 both days and there will be a maximum of 10 people attending this class. Each person has their own dedicated potters wheel.
Price includes all materials, glazes and firings. You are able to keep up to 8 pots per person and if you have made more that you love, you can pay for additional pots at £10 per piece.
[Please contact Lucy@crownworkspottery.com in advance to confirm that you are of a sufficient standard to join this course, Thank you]
Taught by Guest Potter Frances Savage - Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of July from 11:00 to 17:00
This two-day workshop explores the expressive possibilities of low-fired terracotta slipware for functional kitchenware.
Over the weekend, you’ll focus on throwing and altering low, wide forms on the potter’s wheel using terracotta clay. On the first day, the group will explore how to create a range of baking dishes - from oval and rectangular to square forms - by manipulating clay directly from the wheel. These soft, open forms will be shaped and altered using a few different techniques, encouraging a playful and intuitive approach to making.
The second day will be dedicated to refining your pieces, adding handles or lugs, and preparing the surfaces for decoration. You’ll be introduced to the tradition and technique of using slip in earthenware, with time to experiment and develop your own style of decoration. Frances will guide you through methods such as slip trailing, marbling, feathering, and other expressive gestures that bring life and movement to your pots. By the end of the course, you’ll have a small collection of slip-decorated terracotta kitchenware, rich with personality and grounded in tradition.
Frances is a Manchester-based potter with a deep love for creating pieces that are joyful to use and full of warmth. Her current body of work explores British slipware traditions and folklore, reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens to make tactile, friendly forms for the table. Influenced by medieval pottery and the rhythms of domestic life, her work features generous curves, playful handles, and slipped surfaces that carry the visible traces of the maker’s hand. Frances creates her pots at the Manchester Ceramics Collective, where she continues to investigate the intimate relationship between people and handmade objects.
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General Class Information…
This weekend classes will run from 11:00 - 17:00 both days and there will be a maximum of 10 people attending this class. Each person has their own dedicated potters wheel.
Price includes all materials, glazes and firings. You are able to keep up to 8 pots per person and if you have made more that you love, you can pay for additional pots at £10 per piece.
[Please contact Lucy@crownworkspottery.com in advance to confirm that you are of a sufficient standard to join this course, Thank you]
All classes will take place in the pottery at: 11-12 Crown Works, Temple Street, London, E26QQ
Price includes all materials used in the session.
You are able to keep a maximum of 8 pots from the session . Pots will be ready usually within three weeks, but sometimes longer depending on firing schedules. You will be notified by email when your pots are ready. We ask that you pick up or arrange for your pots to be delivered to you (for an additional fee) within one month of the original pick up email being sent out. If your pieces have not been picked up or sent within this time-frame then we regret that we will have had to give to our local community, as we are so limited on shelf space.
A welcome email with further instructions about what to expect before your class is sent around a week before your class commences. This email will be sent to the email provided at booking.
We really hope that you enjoy your workshop with us!
Any questions please email Lucy after reading the frequently asked questions page here
RESCHEDULING, CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY
* If given 8 or more days notice we can either reschedule, refund or generate a gift code for rebooking your class.
* If given 7 days or less notice due to illness of any kind, or for any other reason, we cannot reschedule or refund. There are no exceptions to this, so please do not ask or pressurise our staff.
* In the scenario of 7 days or less notice of you not being able to attend, your seat always remains yours to give to a friend or family member to attend.
* We can only take one individual for the duration of a course, not an array of people on different sessions, ie only one person can attend all or some of the sessions.
* We regret we will not be able to replace or rearrange missed sessions. Please do not ask us to make exceptions and please understand we cannot accommodate everyones diary changes and sudden change of circumstances.
* Gift Cards are non-refundable