1. Make your home unique
You were always stunned by unique ceramic accessories in an interior? Elegant minimalistic or extreme and colourful? Figurative or non-figurative sculptures, candle holders, jewellery containers?
Why not make it yourself? Figure out how hand-building works and create the best-fit accessories for your home. With professional guidance at the beginning, you’ll be able to make your smaller concepts, and then with time and practice you can make even bigger ones on your own.
2. Learn a new skill
Doing ceramics is not a new-wave, 15-minute-of-fame kinda hobby; it’s been part of our lives for thousands of years. Although new trends made it popular again, the basics are the same. Learn different techniques, like pinching, coil and slab building, and everybody’s favourite: wheel-throwing. You can decorate your creations with applied-to-surface or scratched patterns, or choose from a wide colour range of underglazes, neutral or colourful effect glazes. Go through the 3 main stages of making ceramics: making, turning/refining, and glazing. Every step requires full attention and care, so you’ll be able to shift your thoughts from everyday stress to a meditative state of mind. Great for releasing tension!
3. Meet your people
If you’ve been struggling to find your group of people for quite some time lately, then visit a ceramic studio! 2024 can’t be the year of sitting alone in the library or café again! Here, students all have a shared interest; learning a new skill and creating their crazy visions. If you love arts and crafts and also looking for a supporting environment, we can 100% recommend our open and loving community. Teachers and students created a chatty and always kind atmosphere, where you can feel safe, and share your thoughts, ideas and visions about your next creations.
4. Let your hands get dirty
Doing things that allow us to let go of society’s pressure is always welcomed. We have this fear of getting ourselves and our clothes dirty… “What will others say seeing me with stained clothes on the tram? or No, I hate the feeling of wet “mud” on my hands… It freaks me out”. However, we should remember that we managed to not give a thought of wearing stained or dirty clothes for at least 4-6 years at the beginning of our lives! And how real that time felt, right? In 2024, try to connect with that 6-year-old in yourself again, and let go of this unnecessary pressure and negativity! Clay can be washed out, easy-peasy anyway!
5. Make a home for your plant
Having plants and making them little homes on the potter’s wheel? Yes, please, it’s a match made in Heaven! The best part is that you can manage to make a pot even in your first wheel-throwing class. A bit wonky-looking piece works perfectly fine with a succulent or a cactus. It brings personality to the plant and even more joy to your life. To make even more special planters, you can try pottery painting or our other available courses.
6. Reward yourself or your loved ones with quality time
After a long year like 2024, you deserve luxury treatment! By trying pottery and hand-building courses, you can reward yourself on a regular basis. Keep a healthy work-life balance, and let yourself rest on fixed days, so you can stay motivated throughout the new year! If you want to share the fulfilling moments with a loved one, in our offer you can find several course options for 2 as well.
For 2025, make reasonable New Year’s resolutions and try to keep your own pace and lifestyle in focus! Hope the 6 reasons above will help you in the decision and we can assist in making your pottery dreams come true! Our courses are suitable for everyone, whether you’re a beginner or have more experience. Take a look!
