Make a Glaze
A practical course for people a little further along their pottery making path, who want to understand what’s really happening inside their glazes.
This course gently pulls back the curtain on glaze making. You’ll work with raw materials, learn how glazes are built, and begin to see how small changes in recipe and firing lead to very different surfaces and results. Nothing is treated as mysterious or out of reach - the aim is to make the systems visible, so you can work with confidence rather than guesswork.
Across the sessions you’ll mix, test and fire your own brushing glazes, building steady, repeatable ways of working that you can carry into your own practice.
For many people, this becomes the moment glaze starts to feel navigable - not a secret world, but another part of the road.
Duration: 15 hours
Prerequisites: None
Includes: Raw materials for in-session testing, fired test tiles and test glazes to take away.
Led by: Chris Crawford
Glaze Club
Glaze Club is for people who have completed Make a Glaze and want time, space and support to continue developing their glazes through steady practice.
This is where ideas are tested, results are examined, and the systems behind your work become clearer. With access to studio resources and guidance from Chris, you’ll use the sessions to adjust recipes, interpret firings, and slowly build your own working glaze language.
There’s no fixed curriculum. Instead, Glaze Club offers a rhythm: a place to return, to refine, and to keep learning through doing.
Raw materials are available on a pay-per-use basis, so you can work flexibly as your understanding deepens.
Led by: Chris Crawford