Beginners Pottery Classes

Beginner’s Starter-Blocks are run by John Ayling on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Thursday afternoons. The blocks are cost is based on £21 per session with one session per week for two calendar months. We are sorry we do not currently have any spaces; please check back at a later date.

John Parker runs classes on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons and can take up to two beginners per session when places are available.

We are sorry we are currently unable to take new enquiries for Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon sessions.

Starter-Block Information

We offer beginners ‘Starter-Blocks’ of seven, eight or nine weeks (fixed, depending on the number weeks in specific months). We will guide you through techniques for making pots on the potters wheel and by hand-building by pinching and using coils (you will either start with a couple of weeks on the wheel or a couple of weeks hand-building and will then rotate). We will also show you how to apply slips (liquid clays) and glazes.

The beginners Starter-Block sessions and the Members sessions are combined; we are there to teach you as new-starters and to give assistance to others in the session. We aim to teach you as many techniques as we can in your starter-block but we do not run things in a prescriptive way week by week. This way we can help you can find out what you enjoy doing and what you are good at.

Once you have completed a Starter-Block with us you will know the basics and you become a Member, enabling you to book onto any session; we will then continue helping you as needed.

If you would like to start learning pottery on a Start-Block, please read the cancellation policy, below.

Starter-Block Cancellation Policy

If you have booked a Starter-Block, we have made a commitment to keep you a space so we hope you will be able to keep your booking. If you do have to cancel, please read on:

• Please note that the booking system cannot generate refunds, so.....

• .....if you cancel 72 hours or more before the start of your first session we will arrange for a full refund to be made.

• .....if you cancel less than 72 hours before the start of you first session we will be able to arrange for a full refund only if we are able to re-fill your space. If we cannot re-fill your space we will give you a 50% refund.

• If you miss any sessions within your block we are sorry but we will not be able to offer a refund for that session as your place will have been reserved for you.

• Up to one session per block; if you give us a week or more notice that you will not be able to make a session, we will give you a free-coupon enabling you to book a replacement session as a Member once you have completed your Starter-Block.

• Please see the BOOK page if you cannot make a particular session (please do not try to cancel a session yourself as the system we use will cancel your entire block).