Slow Pottery Residential In person Courses are back! Sign up to the wating list for Monsoon Winter Courses 2024!

Welcome

Slow Pottery is a Pottery studio and an online school inspired by a slow life, run & founded by Nikita Dawar.

Every batch I ask my student to journal about their journey, experience here at Slow Pottery. i've compiled a few so you could get a glimpse into how our courses at our farm velanga orchard progress. These are real stories full of ups and down :) an honest slow journey

Slow Pottery Student Journeys

Elizabeth Thomas - Slow Journeys

Elizabeth Thomas - Slow Journeys

Elizabeth Thomas Jan 2021 Batch - Two Month Course Week 1 The first few days went really well. I was happy with myself. Then started the ups and downs and the elusive centre. So now I've decided to happily explore...

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Swabhhi Tyagi - Slow Journeys

Swabhhi Tyagi - Slow Journeys

Swabhhi Tyagi Batch Jan 2021- One month course After a lot of workshops or introduction to pottery sessions this was by far the most resonating one- also because Nikita would make you feel that its not just the clay that...

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Catherine - Slow Journeys

Catherine - Slow Journeys

Catherine August 2022- Three Month Course Arriving at SlowPottery (month 1 - week1 ) has been a slow settling into a very peaceful, comfortable, rural environment at Velanga Orchard. Karthik and Nikita are our hosts. Karthik taking care of all needs...

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Jhalak Ubhriyani - Slow Journeys

Jhalak Ubhriyani - Slow Journeys

Jhalak Ubhriyani Aug 2022 - Two Month Course I approached Pottery with no prior experience with clay whatsoever, let alone the wheel! Today marks eight days of me trying my best to befriend the clay and the wheel, and it...

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Saumya Sinha - Slow Journeys

Saumya Sinha - Slow Journeys

Saumya Sinha  Jan 2022 - One month Course Week 1 Thrilling, daunting, overwhelming, exciting, refreshing, my first week of pottery was all of it at once. While I cannot wait to see mu final collection, I also find it so...

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Meenu Talasila - Slow Journeys

Meenu Talasila - Slow Journeys

Meenu Talasila  Jan 2021 - One Month Course Week 1 First day of Week 1 felt like there was a lot of science and technique to understand and work with clay. This continued through every stage of wedging, coning, centering...

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Slow Pottery Residential Courses Aug To Nov ‘24

This monsoon winter, we are conducting one month and three month intensive courses at our farm velanga orchard.

One Month Course

We'll be learning the basics of clay prep, making pots on the wheel, making a colletcion, glazing and firing. Perfect for you if you'd like to take your first step into this world of clay. From here, you can decide to train further or keep it as a hobby!

Three month course

Looking to dive in deep and really understand the craft, this course is for you. This course is the first step into becoming a professional potter, a ceramic artist.

Stay at our farm

This course is a residential course which means you stay and learn with us at our farm, Velanga Orchard, Andhra Pradesh, 172 kms from Bangalore. You can share a cottage with someone or choose a private cottage. We have your stay, course, recreation, nutrition, clean air, water covered :)

All Day, Everyday!

Our studio will be open for you 10 hours a day everyday! An all immersive experience for you to be able to take in fully!

I have the perfect course for you :)

Would you like to Learn Pottery At Home?

Learn pottery online from your own home, at your own pace, with a course curated and taught by me. All you need is a small home studio setup which has been detailed out on our blog and in the course.

This course has chapters with detailed demos of technqiues, instructions and tasks after every chapter, subtitles, templates of schedules for practice, common questions chapters, a discussion panel where you can put your doubts down and I'll get back to you with solutions.

If you want do pottery at home, this is it :) Check the course out below.

Slow Pottery & Me

11 Years Of Craft Entrepreneurship

11 Years Of Craft Entrepreneurship

1st January 2017, I got my first student. I rebranded myself as Slow Pottery.
I had one wheel at home, one wedging table. This course had no glazing, firing, only pottery wheel techniques.
1 student became 20 by June. I was teaching non stop as I had only one wheel. As soon as I hit 20, I took up a studio in Indiranagar. It was such a sweet start. Two manual wheels, two tables, one electric wheel. That’s it. 
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Bread Roll - Punjabi Home Food Recipes

Bread Roll - Punjabi Home Food Recipes

Hello! It’s December and the winter season is making me crave my Mum’s staple Sunday breakfast dish - Bread Rolls. Thankfully I’m writing this from Delhi and we might be making them soon :) So here you go, my mother’s...

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