Summer of 2025
- Sunday 22th June (day of arrival) to Sunday 29th juli 2025 – Throwing on the potters wheel (fully booked)
- Sunday evening, July 27th (arrival day) through Sunday morning, August 3rd, 2025 – Handbuilding Course for Beginners
- Sunday 10 (day of arrival) to Sunday 17 juli 2025 – Throwing on the potters wheel (fully booked))
Throwing on the potters wheel
Beginners learn the basic techniques of how to prepare, center and pull up the clay – as well as finishing the pieces by trimming. The bowl shape and the cylinder will be the starting points.
With advanced students we’ll discuss and develop new techniques and we’ll work, for example, on composite shapes such as jugs, teapots, jars with lids.The week ends with a reduction glaze firing.
During the course weeks we will be working with the very plastic stoneware clay Grés.
Handbuilding
An inspiring week in which various handbuilding techniques will be covered.
Among other things, participants will create the iconic ‘chawan,’ the Japanese tea bowl.
During this week, glazing some of the pieces will also be covered, as well as finishing pieces with engobes and metal oxides. A valuable week focused on beginners.
The reduction firing scheduled at the end of the week also makes the course highly interesting for advanced participants.
course layout
Welcome
On the day before the course we’ll welcome you with a meal in Portuguese atmosphere; a great opportunity to get to know each other a little.
Schedule
The course starts daily at 9.30am. There will be a short coffee break at 11.00am and the lesson continues until 1.00pm.
A delicious lunch will be ready for you at 1.00pm.
The afternoons are an opportunity to work freely; of course you can also choose to go out and explore the area, or go for a refreshing swim in the nearby Alva river.
Around 7.30pm we’ll end the day together by having supper.
Thursday is a free day
This gives participants the opportunity to work for three days, in peace and quiet, on the glazing kiln.
On that day, the bisque kiln will be fired so that the pieces can be glazed on Friday.
Closing and parting
On Saturday morning around 10.00am we’ll organise a small exhibition and discuss the work. Around 11.00am we ‘ll say our goodbyes.
fees
Summer 2025
We apply one price for the courses; except for the travel costs there are no additional fees.
The price includes: the course, materials and firing costs, lunches and 2 dinners.
| When staying in a shared room in one of our accommodations | |
| When staying in a single room in one of our accommodations | |
| Course fee (incl. lunch and 2 dinners) without accommodations | €680,- |
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