Ceramic Bonsai Garden Tealight House - 2-Week Workshop. Create your own Amazing Sculptural Bonsai Garden. Held over 2 weeks - Saturday 2nd July and 9th July. The skills learnt in this workshop will give you all the clever basics required to create with clay to your heart's desire. So many building and decorating techniques, all […]
Beginner Potter’s Wheel Workshop Saturday July 2nd 1.30pm – 3.30pm Ever watched fascinated as potters make a spinning wheel and a lump of clay into a pot? Here is your chance to try your hand at making a pot on the Potter’s Wheel. Come and join our 2 hour throwing workshop (“throwing” is the technical […]
Kids Clay Play Tuesday July 5th 10am – 12pm Join us at Firebird Studios for some holiday fun with clay play!!! Tap into the tactile creativity of clay. Kids love to get their hands into clay and create! Their joy is so obvious when they see their creations appear in front of them. This workshop […]
Beginner Potter’s Wheel Workshop Saturday July 9th 10am – 12pm Ever watched fascinated as potters make a spinning wheel and a lump of clay into a pot? Here is your chance to try your hand at making a pot on the Potter’s Wheel. Come and join our 2 hour throwing workshop (“throwing” is the technical […]
Community Clay – Term Three – 2022 From July 11th July to 16th September 2022 Firebird Studios Community Clay is open for students and potters to come and explore their own clay projects and ideas. Open hours for Firebird Studios: Tuesday – Thursday 9 am – 8 pm (If arriving after 7pm, please just let […]
Potters Wheel Short Course – 5 Weeks Starting Tuesday 12th July 10am – 12pm The Potters Wheel Short Course is a 5 week immersion into the very basic skills required to make simple pots on the potters wheel – “throwing” You will learn about preparing clay, centering, opening and making cylinders, plates and bowls of […]
Potters Wheel Short Course – 5 Weeks Starting Tuesday 12th July 6pm – 8pm The Potters Wheel Short Course is a 5 week immersion into the very basic skills required to make simple pots on the potters wheel – “throwing” You will learn about preparing clay, centering, opening and making cylinders, plates and bowls of […]
Decorating your Pottery 5-Week Course Decoration of your ceramics is an often-forgotten or passed-over component to beautiful pieces that are unique to you! We all know about the Potter’s Wheel, Hand-building and Glazing ceramics, but decoration using coloured slips, underglazing, carving and piercing, decals, washi paper etc… is the perfect way to embellish your work. […]
Dinner Set Short Course – 5 Weeks Make an Entire Dinner Set Starting Wednesday July 13th 9:30am– 12:30pm In this 5 week course you will learn the basics of making in clay. This course is suitable for beginner to advanced. Beginners will learn basic flatware, slip casting and decorating techniques. Advanced potters will have the […]
Level 2 Supervised Free Expression Wheel So often wheel throwers spend years just sitting at a wheel and churning out random shapes, trimming them willy-nilly and never really developing a method, or learning how to achieve a consistent form or style. Join Xander to set you on a path to discovering your true potential behind […]