This practical one-day course provides an exciting hands-on introduction to Japanese pottery techniques.
You will discover how to make Japanese tableware. You learn some simple techniques to create organic shape dishes by Tataratsukuri (slab making) and a tea bowl by Tamatsukuri (pinching). Each piece will be decorated by Japanese brush drawing or slip decoration techniques, such as Hakeme and Katagami. By doing this course you will learn the basic Tebineri (Japanese hand building) techniques which can be developed and used for more advanced pieces of your own.
After the course the pots will need to be dried out, biscuit fired, glazed and then fired again. You can either enrol on a glazing day (see details in the course search) if you would like to glaze your own pots, or your pots can be glazed for you at the College. In both cases you will be contacted when your pots have been glazed fired and are ready for collection.
Timetable for one day courses
Students should arrive by 9am for registration.
Classes are from 9.15 - 5pm
Lunch is included.
Rie Tsuruta studied at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art. Her own work is made to be held, felt and used in the centre of people's lives, and to provoke a sense of intimacy and awareness of touch. She has exhibited at Flow Gallery, London, Ceramic Art London and was shortlisted for the 2014 British Ceramic Biennial FRESH Award.