Adult Summer Workshop

Discover Ceramics

Name: Hereford College of Arts
Price range: $

Cost

£125
Tutor

Lucy Baxendale
Duration

2 Days
Dates

29th & 30th July

A hands-on crash course in ceramics for complete beginners! Discover the magic of clay as you learn essential techniques and create your own unique pieces to take home.

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Overview

Get hands-on with clay in this creative, beginner-friendly course. Over two days, you’ll explore the basics of hand-building, learn essential techniques like pinch, coil, and slab construction, and try your hand at decorative surface finishes. With expert guidance, you’ll create your own unique ceramic pieces to take home. Perfect for anyone curious about ceramics — no experience needed, just a willingness to get a little messy and have fun!

A woman in a colourful waistcoat is rolling out a slab of clay. She is leaning over the work and there are people also rolling out clay behind her, out of focus.

Rachael sits in the ceramics workshop handling clay. She is smiling to someone off-camera.

Someone is rolling out clay onto a textured plate.

Lucy Baxendale works on a ceramic sculpture in her home studio.

About the Tutor

Lucy Baxendale is a Ceramicist, Illustrator, and Community Artist from rural Herefordshire. She transforms her sketches into unique 3D sculptures, where lines evolve into stories. Her work bridges imagination and reality, featuring unglazed, stained surfaces that capture the essence of a sketch. Lucy’s playful approach invites you to see drawings come to life in new, unexpected ways. Recognized as Craft and Design magazine’s “One to Watch” in 2011 and one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists in 2022, Lucy continues to refine her practice.

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FAQs

You won't need to bring any materials with you, everything will be provided from pens and paper to clay and glazes.

You may want to bring a sketchbook for taking notes. We sell these at our college shop so you can buy one before your class starts if you want to.

Make sure to bring some water, and dress appropriately for using college equipment (for example, no open-toed shoes and long hair tied back when using workshop equipment).

This course will be held at our Folly Lane Ceramics Workshop.

This course will take place over 2 days from 29th July - 30th July

The workshop will start at 10am and finish at 4pm. You may need to arrive earlier than 10am on your first day for registration. You will be emailed about this once you have booked onto the course.

This workshop is suitable for anyone over the age of 16.

We recommend that attendees between the ages of 16 and 18 are accompanied by a parent or guardian who is also a paying participant.

This workshop is suitable for complete beginners.

We keep our class sizes small so that you benefit from a lot of contact time with the tutor. There will be a maximum of 12 people on this course.

Yes, there will be a 45 minute break for lunch. Unfortunately, our on-campus cafe won't be open during this time, but there is a corner shop just across the road from the campus where you can buy lunch, or you can bring your own.

Light refreshments such as tea and coffee will be provided.