Tom Kemp

We all have areas of pottery we'd like to improve on. In this one-on-one course you choose a specific aspect of throwing you'd like to be better at and to know more about. It can be as simple as centering clay easily and quickly, or thr ...

Many of us start by learning 'ram's head' kneading. It's efficient for small quantities of clay but spiral kneading, sometimes called spiral wedging, is a faster, less energetic technique for removing air from larger amounts of clay. In ...

We all know the largest amount of clay we can comfortably throw, whether it is 500g (1lb) or 10kg (20lb). It's always useful to be able to throw more, either to make larger pieces or to be able to make the most of each lump of clay and ...

Throwing a single lump of clay to make a large vase can be very unrewarding: the more clay, the more it's pulled down by gravity so the thicker the walls become and the vase becomes proportionally smaller. An alternative is to make two ...

Throwing 'off the hump' allows us to make many small forms relatively quickly. It's an alternative to making a lot of small balls of clay of equal weight. In this one-on-one course you'll learn how your hands can be a measuring device a ...

Stoneware is very forgiving but porcelain has magickal properties of translucence and strength. In this course, we'll see and feel the difference between the two when throwing them on the wheel. There will be lots of tips about how to g ...