Join Leeds artist Jeannie from Crackle Pots for a 3-week pottery course  

Her wealth of experience in teaching and pottery will help get you started on your first steps into making ceramics. Whether you fancy rising to the challenge of creating a masterpiece, or trying a new skill at a more relaxing pace, this taster course is for you.

What to Expect

Potters Wheel
Throwing on a potter's wheel can be a therapeutic experience, it's fast, it's fun and it's messy. You can have as much or as little help as you want as Jeannie will be on hand to offer one to one tuition with each individual. Although a tricky technique to master, you will be able to create a handmade pot to be proud of.
Each person will get 30 minutes turn on the wheel with one to one tuition from Jeannie

Sgraffito
Sgraffito means to 'scratch through' where designs, imagery and patterns can be added to dried layers of colour. In our taster you will have the opportunity to create two beautiful hand decorated Sgraffito tiles.

Hand building and sculpture
Using ancient techniques to build with clay, our introduction to Pottery Course will teach you to coil, pinch or sculpt clay to create a pot, bowl or small sculpture of your choice. 

Decoration and Firing
You will be able to get truly creative and decorate each piece with coloured slip in a design of your choice. Your pieces will be taken away to be fired in a kiln. Once fired, your work will have a clear glaze applied and it will be fired again at a higher temperature to a gloss finish making them food safe and non porous (however, please be aware that ceramics of this nature are not suitable for microwave use) Your pots will then be ready to collect from NorthLight at your convenience.

Materials
All materials and firing of your pieces are included at no extra cost.  

Event Details

- Date: Saturdays - July 6th. 13th and 20th
- Time: 11am - 1pm
- Age Restriction: 18 and over
- Price: £75 for 3 weeks

Venue, accessibility & parking
Northlight has a large car park with free parking. Please note there is one small step down into the workshop area and therefore it is not wheel chair accessible. There is an onsite café serving barista coffees, cakes and light lunches.

Public transport
Get the number 2 and 3 bus opposite the Corn Exchange which stops outside of Lidl on Harrogate Road. It is then a 1 minute walk to Northlight Arts Centre on Potternewton Lane.