This beginners pottery course has been designed as an introduction course. You will start wtih exploring working with clay using your hands, moving into working with slabs, coils, moulds and throwing on the wheel.
During the weekend you will have the chance to experiment with different ways of making with clay. It is a chance to have a go and see if its something you enjoy, an opportunity to have some fun and to relax and pay attention to the glorious world of pottery in a professional and dedicated pottery studio taught by Lara Lloyd, Director of Coombe Farm Studios.
If you’ve been watching the Pottery Throwdown and thought I’d love to do that, or walk past a pottery studio and wonder if you might join a regular evening class, this is a great opportunity to get away either by yourself or with a friend and see begin the journey and see what aspect of working with clay you like most.
The course will focus on making, you can also have a go at using slips to decorate or colour your pots. A weekend doesn’t give enough time to dry, bisque fire and glaze your work (those processes all take a longer period of time) so you will decide which glazes you like from our in-house range and we will dry and fire your work for you after the course. It can then either be collected or posted back to you.
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Residential
£725 + VAT (£870) includes all your tuition, clay, glazes firing, accommodation and food from arrival on Thursday night through to departure on Sunday after lunch.
Non-Residential
£500 + VAT (£600) includes your tuition, clay, glazes firing and lunches.
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Thursday
5-7pm Residents arrive
7.00pm Non-residents arrive & welcome drinks for all
8.00pm Dinner
Friday-Saturday
8.30am Breakfast for residents
9.30am Tuition starts
1.00-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-5.00pm Tuition resumes.
7.00pm Dinner for residents
Friday
8.30am Breakfast for residents 9.30am-1.00pm final tuition session 1.00-2.00pm final lunch.
2.00pm course ends
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This course is designed for beginners or anyone that wants to have a go at pottery for the first time, a kind of taster course where you can just try it out and have a play.
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Residential and non-residential spaces available.
RESIDENTIAL
includes all your food, accommodation and tuition from arrival on Thursday evening through to departure after lunch on Sunday.
NON-RESIDENTIAL
Includes tuition, welcome drinks on Sunday night and all lunches.
NB Residents are not required to share bedrooms, but bathrooms are shared [we do not have any en suite rooms on site]. See accommodation for more info.
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All materials will be provided but please bring a notebook and an apron/clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, with you.
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Our address is TQ6 0JA [What3words: What3words: fulfilled.exploring.branching] and we have plenty of free onsite parking. Trains > nearest station is Totnes then we can arrange lift shares or send taxi details. We are about 20 minutes from the station.
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Min 5 max 8
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Food is a key part of an immersive course at Coombe. Meals are taken at a long shared table with the other participants either inside in the cooler months or outside in our courtyard when the weather is warmer. Our onsite chef caters for you including all/any dietary requirements. We grow our own vegetables and keep chickens for fresh eggs daily. For those that enjoy wine, we have a fantastic wine merchant who supply us with a small range available to buy onsite.
RESIDENTIAL = £725 + VAT = £870 - 1st Payment o booking is £174.00
NON-RESIDENTIAL = £500 + VAT (£600) - 1st Payment o booking is £120.00
Course takes place 14-17th January 2027.
Your 1st payment/deposit is non refundable and not transferrable to any other courses*
The balance of fees are due six weeks before the course starts and you will be invoiced for that payment.
*You have a 14 day cooling off period, if you pay the first payment and cancel within 14 days you will receive a full refund for that payment. Thereafter it is non refundable.
We strongly advise you to take out adequate travel insurance in the event that you are unable to attend.
Dylan Bowen. Making and decorating dynamic slip decorated earthenware - During this course Dylan will demonstrate and teach various techniques based on his own work.