Dartmouth Park Pottery

No, I’m not trying to learn how to throw a pot on a wheel because I’m trying to recreate the scene from Ghost. Funnily enough, this movie scene is the first that comes to people’s minds, when I tell them that I’m taking pottery lessons.
Truth is: I’ve had taken pottery classes back at university and I loved it so much, that I wanted to more of it now. And a few weeks ago, I was walking by this pottery store in my neighbourhood and I saw some people hinging over the wheels and my fingers began to tingle. I went inside and inquired if they would take on pupils as well. One of the potters — Gregory — was very kind and he told me that while he has no free space at this time, he has last-​minute cancellations occasionally and he would call me then.
And that was the case last week… and so on Tuesday evening I went to Dartmouth Park Pottery and got my hands dirty. And I have to say, I loved every minute of it: we started off with wedging the clay so that it would be more supple and better to work with. Afterwards, it was on to the wheel and while it took my brain some time to remember how to embrace the clay with my hands, I eventually got the hang of it and I was test-​throwing various cylindrical objects… only to have them cut up afterwards and inspected for evenness in thickness.
There was one other pupil with me in the class and so it is quite a hands-​on teaching experience. I really can recommend it and I’m already looking forward to the next time someone cancels and I can come to another pottery class.