Intermediate throwing with Marc Sauvage

This 10-week course represents an opportunity for students who have completed the Beginning Throwing course (or equivalent) to progress and consolidate their skills into making a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence. Ideally, target students are able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel. 

As a “project-based” skill-development course, it focuses on learning and refining skills such as working with larger amounts of clay, throwing taller, shaping/bellying and collaring-in, repetitive throwing, throwing and turning feet, faceting & carving, handles: pulling, hand-built and extruded, shaping rims and spouts, as well as creating assemblages from thrown forms. Some of the projects covered include high,

medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, platters, lidded containers, and tall forms. At the conclusion of the course, students make and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.

Whilst most projects can be completed in course time, it is expected that students will spend some extra time (either at home or the SCArt studio) refining, practising or finishing projects. Whilst no time has been allocated for glazing, students can access the studio glazes and firing facilities in their owntime in order to complete the work.