2 Day Immersive Pottery Class with Imogen Richards – 21st/22nd November 2026

With demand at a peak for pottery classes we are delighted that that Imogen Richards will teach a two day immersive pottery class for us at Sundragon Community Pottery!

Imogen Richards is an Artist/Maker based in Birmingham.

Imogen’s visual language developed through her painting education at Edinburgh College of Art, and Masters Degree in Ceramics at Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent. She aspires to create romantic, abstract and functional work, experimenting with intuitive paintings on and with clay. Her playful and energetic compositions, marks and palette are dictated by the form and texture of each thrown and altered piece.

Imogen draws inspiration from the theatricality and comfort of nature, and surrealist animation, resulting in other-worldly scenes which balance on the edge of reality.

This two day pottery class offers you the opportunity to come along to our beautiful Moseley School of Art Studios, and have a play with clay.

Your class will take place in the building above.  The Moseley School of Art.

Whether you are brand new to clay, or just want to develop your skills, then you are welcome in this class.

This class will introduce you to throwing on the wheel.

You will learn to centre the clay on the wheel head, and start making forms,  You will be shown how to raise the cylinder, the shape from which all forms come.  This is the foundation shape for making mugs, bowls, vases and bottles, amongst other things.

You will also tackle some handbuilding projects, and explore surface decoration techniques, and underglaze application.

On day two you refine your work from day one.  You will learn how to trim the pots you made on the wheel.  You will refine your handbuilt projects.

You will cover various surface decoration techniques, including using coloured slips and underglazes

During this course, students will also learn “good studio practice”.

This two day course will take place from 09.30 – 16.30pm, on the following dates:

• Saturday 21st November
• Sunday 22nd November