At Silky Shapes you’ll learn how to mould clay into anything from a basic bowl to an intricate sculpture.
Beginner’s classes at this intimate studio are held in three lesson packages across three weeks. They feature wheel throwing, trimming and glazing. In our introduction, we learned the process of weighing the clay, releasing the air bubbles, tossing onto the wheel – an essential throw which secures the clay to the device. You get to watch the little ball of clay form into different shapes and sizes at the end of this messy process.
“I hope they are gaining the ability to leave stress aside and fully immerse themselves into a really creative, beautiful process where they start with a lump of clay and end with a fully functional piece,” says Yegana Jafarova, owner of Silky Shapes.
Classes at the Crows Nest venue range from wheel throwing to hand-building, slip casting, mold making, coiling and slab building. But Jafarova will help you work on passion projects outside of these criteria, too.
“If someone walks in and says ‘I want to make a lamp-shade with three tiers’ I'll sit down and discuss the best way to help them work and how to build it,” says Jafarova.
Returning students are free to explore different methods and create more intricate pieces.