All courses are exclusively taught by Michelle Maher.
Please Note: If weekly courses are full; please fill in the mailing list form & when a place is available you’ll hear about it first! New places come up regularly.
Course training fees include materials (clay & decorating slips), use of studio equipment & pottery tools, ceramic glazes & firing of work.
How do the weekly pottery courses work?
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | 10:30am – 12:30pm | ||
| Evening | 19:00-21:00 | 19:00-21:00 | 19:00-21:00 |
How can I join?
→ Prior booking is essential for all classes.
→ If weekly courses are full; please fill in the mailing list form & when a place is available you’ll hear about it first! New places come up regularly.
→ After booking please note course fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
→ Full Terms and Conditions and Payment Methods for classes are available in the FAQ section.
A keen area of interest at Ceramic Forms is decorating and design using non-combustible mixed media with ceramics. We have been exploring this type of surface treatment in the studio for many years now and a considerable amount of knowledge has developed.
It is a key part of our courses that students develop excellent ceramic decorating and glazing skills. In the intensive environment that my classes offer you will be trained on an array of technical decorating skills for ceramics.
In terms of mixed media – essentially, this is adding non-combustible materials to the clay as a way to enhance surface decoration. After firing in the kiln the magic happens leaving amazing patterns and textures in the slip or clay that is left behind.
Non-combustibles we use would be materials like grogs, molochites, perlite and recycled glass. All theses materials make amazing patterns and textures in clay.
Mixed media materials as well as other materials like slips, clay, glazes, firing, use of tools are all included in the course fees.
Students of all skill levels can explore combustible mixed media.
For lots of examples of this mixed media surface treatement please see my Pinterest Boards.
Here at Ceramic Forms we are big into surface decoration! As a maker I have a special interest in ceramic surface and I am very happy to share my expertise with my students and to train and develop their skills in this area.
Whether its resists such as wax, paper or latex or coloured slip decoration like marbling, stencilling, spotting, feathering, sponging, slip trailing or maybe you’d like to try glazes with different finishes like gloss, reactive, crystalline, matt, satin or dry.
Over the years I have built up a big catalogue of glazes and we have 70 + glazes available to students!
Beautiful mark marking can also be achieved by impressing with wallpaper, stones, shells, leaves, bark, textured rollers or fabric.
In addition, surface techniques like inlaying, combing, sgraffito, carving, cutting, impressing, piercing, burnishing, modelling in relief, clay stamps or terra sigillata – can also be explored.
Students of all skill levels can explore these surface decoration techniques.
Melted recycled glass
Grog in decorating slip creating a wonderful texture.
Layered reactive stoneware glazes finish the look!
Texture was achieved with a pitted stone.
Coloured slips & glaze combine to bring the piece to life.
Melted recycled glass.
Bird seeds and perlite create an amazing coral surface!
Coloured slips & reactive flowing glazes combine.
Incredible glaze on coiled pot! A dry/crackle red iron oxide finish.
How the courses work…
→ Come and learn the technical skills needed to make and decorate hand built ceramics with an award winning ceramic artist – Michelle Maher – in a purpose built, bright, modern, fully equipped studio in Castleknock, Dublin.
→ First-class tuition is guaranteed on my courses. In the intensive environment that we offer you will be trained on a huge range of technical skills for ceramics.
→ We also pride ourselves on a very positive learning environment. Everyone is taught individually and at their own pace.
→ All skill levels welcome from beginners to more advanced students and class numbers are limited to 7 people to ensure individual attention.
→ So whether you are a beginner, an improver or have been working with clay for years there is a place for you in these training courses.
→ We learn by doing in pottery and in these very practical courses you will develop the skills necessary to create ceramics to a very high standard.
Ceramic Course Details…
→ We cover the following hand building methods: press moulds, hump moulds, slab building, soft slabbing, coiling, pinching, patches, quilting, modelling – tailoring the method to your individual project.
→ Depending on the area of learning – our approach can be sculptural or functional, representational or abstracted. And in the small class size I offer, you will be given the skills necessary to guide you right through the project from building to decorating to glazing.
→ There is a strong emphasis in the courses on developing technical ceramic skills, good construction methods, excellent finish and on first-rate decorating techniques; we use coloured decorating slips as well as a wide palette of stoneware glazes. As you can see from the Gallery of Student’s Work the results speak for themselves! Almost all of my students started with me as beginners to clay.
→ We only use the best quality stoneware clay; as well as a wide range of coloured decorating slips and glazes.
→ All courses are exclusively taught by Michelle Maher.
→ Course training fees include materials (clay & decorating slips), use of studio equipment & pottery tools, ceramic glazes & firing of work. (Fair usage policy applies.)
→ Large library of ceramic books and magazines available that students can refer to for inspiration etc. There is also lots on ceramic inspiration on my Pinterest page.
→ Please Note: If weekly courses are full; please fill in the mailing list form & when a place is available you’ll hear about it first! New places come up regularly.
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