Throw Big Workshop

Saturday 23 May, 10am-3pm

Join master potter Sean Kingsley on this one day workshop to learn how to throw bigger items on the potter’s wheel.

If you have experience of throwing on the wheel and are looking for an opportunity to learn how to improve the accuracy and fluidity of your technique this is for you.
By adjusting your throwing style the workshop will help set you up to continue your practice and development in your own wheel throwing sessions.

Please note nothing you throw will be kept from the workshop, ensuring the mindset is one of practise rather than preciousness.

What to Bring

All materials provided. Please wear clothes/apron that you don’t mind getting messy. Teas and Coffees with be provided but please bring your own packed lunch.

About the Tutor
Sean Kingsley runs Butter Wynd Pottery with contributions from Christine and daughter Erin, with some clay digging muscle from son Lewis. Sean started working with clay at Edinburgh College of Art and went on to work for spells at Purcells Cove Pottery in Nova Scotia and the Banff Centre in the Rockies. Running studios as Sean Kingsley Ceramics at Royal Park Ceramics and El Paso, Morningside in Edinburgh preceded working in the Department of Ceramics at the University of Dundee. He established the current DJCAD Clay facility, and supported students and research staff in their clay endeavours.

Butter Wynd Pottery was established in October 2009, with the first local clay dig. The resulting pots show the influence of folk history and traditional craft. In the mix and less obvious are interwoven thoughts on contemporary domestic needs, environment, material provenance, digital technologies and well being.