Hello Potters, Ceramic Artists and Clay Enthusiasts!
We're launching Slow pottery intensives in 2026 with global ceramic artists leading immersive workshops. Courses offered at various levels: Absolute Beginners, Basics Knowledge, Intermediate, Advanced.
Master Potters bring unique skills and insights for an immersive learning experience. Courses designed for potters who want to deepen practice, learn new techniques, or experience different styles.
Residential intensives with boarding, lodging, and meals provided. A space for shared ideas, stories, and perspectives.
Sign up for two or three intensives & stay with us at no extra cost during the 3-day break.
Elodie & Reyaz of Atelier Lalmitti
Intensive - New Ways With Clay
Starting our new year with 'New ways With Clay'. You can expect to fully engage in the creative process, gain hand building skills, and develop an intuitive approach to making.
Shivu Mahesh
Intensive - Composite Forms
Level - Intermediate to Advanced
Shivu Mahesh, a ceramic and a visual artist from Bangalore who’ll be teaching us how to create 3D sculptural forms using wheel thrown pottery as his primary tool, focusing not only on the final aesthetics but also the structural integrity and balance.
Mr.Hiroshige Kato
Intensive - Traditional Japanese Techniques
Level - Intermediate to Advanced
Mr. Hiroshige Kato, all the way from Japan is the 12th generation potter of the Kitagama kiln and is bringing us the rare opportunity to learn traditional Japanese throwing, painting and glazing techniques in a short intense 3 day workshop.
Eva Lys Champagne
Intensive - Ceramic Surface: More Than Skin Deep
All levels welcome, beginners need basic pot-making skills
Eva Champagne all the way from USA will be diving in deep with surface decoration techniques and using, layering, single or multiple techniques at different stages of clay showing us the vast possibilities of unique ceramic surfaces.
Meenakshi Rajendra
Intensive - Obvara Firing & Surface Decoration Techniques
All levels welcome, beginners need basic pot-making skills
Meenakshi Rajendra from Delhi will be leading a fast paced, exciting, Obvara Raku Firing where we build forms and fire them with this ancient eastern European technique. Along with that expect to learn a wide variety of interesting accessorising techniques like crackling, marbling, Mishima, coloured clay and more!
Valentina Zlatarova
Intensive - Portrait Sculpture In Clay
All levels welcome, beginners need basic pot-making skills
Valentina Zlatarova all way the from Athens, Greece is conducting a course teaching us how to construct anatomically correct head and to read human faces so they convey not just likeness to the model but emotions as well.
Kavita Pandya
Intensive - Decoding Nerikomi
All levels welcome, beginners need basic pot-making skills
This intensive is about understanding basic techniques of Nerikomi using basic elements, lines and dots. Learn to construct your pattern block and create products out of it.
Tinni Arora
Glaze Development Course
Any level potter who hasn’t studied glaze chemistry
The Glaze Development course conducted by Tinni Arora introduces the fascinating world of ceramic glaze making and the materials that shape it. Participants will explore the alchemy of glaze materials, discovering how different combinations create unique results. Designed for beginners and intermediate potters, it focuses on high-fired glazes at cone 9/10.
Intensive - Filaments & Textures
All levels welcome, beginners need basic pot-making skills
Alberto Bustos from Catalonia Spain is teaching us unique techniques like launch where we make textured slabs, filaments, using pigments, while enabling us to tell stories of hope through our pieces, from the most absolute freedom and improvisation.
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For any queries or questions , email us at hello@slowpottery.com .
Hope to see you soon!