Preparing the studio…

Begin at the centre.

It starts with a lump of clay.

01 — Open

Open it out.

Thumbs to the centre — the form breathes wide.

02 — Pull

Pull it up.

Wet hands, steady pressure, and the wall climbs.

03 — Form

Bring it in.

Collar the neck, flare the lip. A vessel.

04 — Paint

Paint it on.

A motif around the belly — by hand, before the glaze.

05 — Finish

Glaze. Fire.

Come as you are. Leave with clay in your hair.

Strangers on day one, regulars by week three — making a mess at the next wheel over, cheering on the wonky ones, your mug sharing a kiln shelf with a stranger's bowl. It's less a class, more a table everyone's welcome at.

And here, we're all kind — to ourselves, to each other, and to the space.

Just some community drip.

A large sgraffito platter, a fish carved through blue slip to bare clay
Kartikasgraffito platter
Three cobalt-blue dishes — a tree board, a wavy tray and a scalloped sun-and-moon plate
Cobalt dishes
Mugs pressed with real wildflowers and painted petal by petal
Jemypressed-flower mugs
Pooja holding a wide platter carved with two whales
Poojawhale platter
A fluted vase in a running blue and amber glaze, held in one hand
Simranfluted vase
Aishwarya sponging the walls of a little slab-built clay house
Aishwaryaclay house