Improvers: Handbuilding & Wheel Throwing Course
Improvers: Handbuilding & Wheel Throwing Course
Continue developing your pottery skills while exploring your own ideas with guidance and support.
Sessions allow you to build confidence in the techniques that interest you most — whether that’s wheel throwing, handbuilding, refining forms, or exploring new decorative approaches.
Students work more independently while still receiving demonstrations, guidance, and individual feedback throughout the course.
Dates and times are selected via the booking options.
Additional costs apply only for pieces you choose to keep (covers clay, glazing, and firing).
What to Expect
- Guidance tailored to your individual projects
- Support refining wheel throwing skills – centering, pulling, shaping forms
- Exploration of handbuilding techniques including slab, coil, and sculptural work
- Surface decoration, texture and glazing experimentation
- Help developing your own creative ideas and projects
- Demonstrations and individual feedback throughout
Who It’s For
- Students who have completed a beginner pottery course
- Those with basic wheel throwing or handbuilding experience
- Returning students wanting to continue developing their skills
- Anyone looking for guidance while pursuing their own clay projects
More Ways to Make With Us
As a Clayful Hands student, you're not limited to just your class time. We offer a few extra ways to keep making, practising, and connecting with our community while you're on a course.
🏺 Open Studio
Book self-led studio sessions between classes to keep your practice going. Open Studio is unstructured time in the studio where you can practise techniques you've been taught, work on personal projects, and build confidence at your own pace.
£35 for a two-hour session.
Bookable through our studio platform, which will be shared with you during your course.
💬 WhatsApp Community
We're building a Clayful Hands community hub online, and you're welcome to join. It's a friendly space to share your makes, hear about upcoming courses and workshops, ask questions, and stay connected with fellow makers between sessions.
New to Pottery?
If you're completely new to clay or would like a structured introduction to both handbuilding and wheel throwing, our Foundations: Handbuilding & Wheel Throwing Course is the perfect place to start.
Start with the Foundations Course
Refunds & Attendance
Our courses are small and places are limited, so bookings must be paid in full at the time of registration.
If you need to cancel, please let us know in writing as soon as possible. A small admin fee (10%) applies to all refunds.
- More than 3 weeks before the start date – 80% refund
- 2–3 weeks before – 40% refund
- Less than 2 weeks before – no refund
You’re welcome to transfer your booking to another person if you can’t attend. Unfortunately, transfers between different courses aren’t possible.
If the tutor is unable to run a session, we’ll arrange a suitable catch-up for the group or refund that session. In the unlikely event the full course can’t run, you’ll receive a full refund.
Pottery relies on timing and studio space, so missed sessions are difficult to make up. We’ll do our best to help where possible, but please be aware that rescheduling isn’t always an option.