Hello Potters, Ceramic Artists and Clay Enthusiasts!

Introducing Slow pottery Intensives 2027 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.

Mariana Sampaio

 3rd - 14th February 2027

Traditional Portuguese Tile Painting 

Level - Open to all. Non potters or non artists can join too.

Portugal has an enormous wealth in the diversity of ceramic painting styles and techniques. From pieces made on the potter's wheel, hand-painted with large-scale designs, to tiles of Arab origin filled with colourful geometric patterns, and majolica-painted tiles featuring the cobalt blue so typical of Portugal.

From north to south, these teachings have been passed down from generation to generation, century after century, reaching the present day with the exact same processes and traditions. This residency is an invitation to get to know a country's culture through its ceramics, its people, its techniques, and its colours.

Veronique Benony

18th February - 1st March 2027

The Art of Animals: Between Reality and Creation

Level - Intermediate (Should have 1-2 years of experience with clay)

Free your imagination and transform clay into unique and poetic animal sculptures, observe and understand animal morphology, learn the basics of modeling and slab construction (stoneware), develop a personal style (simplification of forms), master decorative techniques (textures, patterns), experiment with engobes (coloured decoration).

Veena Chandran

5th-16th March 2027

Building Large Using Thrown and Hand built Parts

Level - Intermediate to mixed-level 

(not suitable for complete beginners; some pottery experience required)

This 10-day intensive focuses on building large and complex ceramic forms using both hand building and wheel-thrown techniques.

The course emphasises structural planning, thoughtful joining techniques, and combining forms to create cohesive sculptural or functional pieces.

Alongside this, will experiment with multiple clay bodies and coloured slips to explore how they interact in form and finish. 

Kavita Pandya

20th to 31st March 2027

Composing Motifs Using Nerikomi Patterns with Kavita Pandya

Level - All levels welcome (Beginners to Advanced Potters), Basic experience with clay required

Eva Champagne

16th to 27th August 2027

Making Your Mark: Creativity And The Ceramic Surface

Level - All levels welcome. Some prior ceramics experience in hand building and/or throwing is advised.

In this 10-day workshop, we’ll push beyond technique-for-technique’s-sake and explore the ceramic surface as a place for experimentation, intention, and creative risk-taking.

We’ll layer, alter, interrupt, imprint, add, remove, combine, and push conventional processes into unexpected territory. Simple, low-tech methods can produce surfaces with extraordinary depth, complexity, and character when driven by intention.

To Book an Intensive

Please email me at hello@slowpottery.com with your name, intensive you'd like to book, accommodation preference and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.

For payment, you can either pay the full amount, or If you'd like to pay in two instalments, we take 50% to book your slot and 50% to be paid two months before the course starts.

For any queries or questions , email us at hello@slowpottery.com .

Hope to see you soon!