Workshops
A public workshop is open to anyone — book a place for yourself, or as many places as you're bringing people. Nothing to organise, no prior experience assumed. An instructor takes you through it start to finish, everything is on the table when you sit down, and for two hours nothing outside the room gets a look in. That is most of the point. The piece you make stays with us for firing and you collect it later.
Never touched clay before
Start small. Both of these are walk-in friendly and take under an hour.
Walk-In Try Wheel
15 minutesFrom 80 QAR · no booking needed
Fifteen minutes at a wheel with an instructor's hands next to yours. Walk in on the way past, find out whether the wheel is for you, walk out in a better mood than you walked in. Have it fired if you want to keep it.
Pottery Painting
Drop inFrom 50 QAR · about an hour
Pick a ready-made piece off the shelf and paint it. No clay under the nails, no technique to learn, and it works for a six-year-old and a sixty-year-old at the same table. The cheapest way into the studio.
Hand-building — no wheel involved
Pinch, coil and slab. Press your thumb into cold clay and the day goes quiet — hand-building is slow, tactile and chatty, the technique you can do while talking. Far easier to get a good result from on your first try. Maximum 8 people, 1.5 hours, one finished piece each.
Pinch Pot Bowl
Max 8 · All ages180 QAR bisque · 230 coloured · 1.5 hours
The oldest way to make a pot: a ball of clay and your thumbs. Our entry workshop, and the one we put nervous first-timers in. Nobody has ever left this one saying they couldn't do it.
Mug Making
Max 8 · Adults250 QAR bisque · 300 coloured · 1.5 hours
Build the body, pull the handle, attach it so it survives the kiln. Handles are where most beginners come unstuck, which is exactly why this one is taught properly rather than rushed.
Floral Plate
Max 8 · Adults280 QAR bisque · 330 coloured · 1.5 hours
Slab-rolled, shaped over a mould, then pressed and carved with a floral pattern. The most decorative session we run and the one people photograph most.
Cup & Saucer
Max 8 · Adults350 QAR bisque · 400 coloured · 1.5 hours
Two matched pieces that have to sit together properly, which makes this the most demanding thing we teach in 90 minutes. Come to this one after you have made something else, or come to it first and be stubborn.
The pottery wheel
Centring, opening, pulling walls. Nobody is good at it in the first ten minutes — then something clicks, the clay steadies under your hands, and the room disappears. It's the closest thing to meditation you can do with mud to your elbows. Maximum 6 people so the instructor can actually reach everyone.
Ladies' Potter's Wheel
Ladies only · Max 6330 QAR bisque · 380 coloured · 1.5 hours
A women-only room, a women-only class. Our most-booked wheel session, and for a lot of people the reason they finally tried it. One thrown piece, trimmed, fired and yours.
Family & Friends
Max 6 · 2 hours330 QAR bisque · 380 coloured · 2 hours
The same wheel session with half an hour more in it, built for people who arrived together. Mixed ages welcome. If you want a session just for your group instead, that is a private booking.
Both techniques, one session
Two hours, two pieces: one thrown on the wheel, one built by hand. The most you can do in a single visit.
Ladies' Wheel & Hand-Building
Most complete450 QAR bisque · 500 coloured · 2 hours · two pieces
If you only ever come once, come to this one. You get the wheel and you get the quiet hand-building half, so you leave knowing which of the two you actually want to keep doing.
Kids Workshop
Ages 6–12 · Max 6300 QAR bisque · 400 coloured · 2 hours · two pieces
Two hours is long enough for a child to get past the frustrating part and end up proud of something. Parents are welcome to stay or to use the two hours elsewhere in West Bay.
Come alone and leave with people to wave at. Come with friends and leave with a matching set.
Bisque or coloured?
Every workshop is sold at one of two finishes, and the difference is what happens after you leave.
- Bisque — one firing. Your piece comes back in its natural fired clay colour. Honest, matte, and cheaper.
- Coloured — underglaze applied by you, then a clear glaze and a second firing. Glossy, food-safe and washable. Most people pick this.
Firing takes time. Pieces are ready to collect from the studio a minimum of two weeks after your session, and we message you when yours is out of the kiln.
How it works
What's included
- An instructor with you for the whole session
- All clay, tools, aprons and glazes
- Firing — one firing on bisque, two on coloured
- A finished ceramic piece, collected once it is out of the kiln (two on the fusion sessions)
After your first workshop
A workshop is a first visit, not a course. People who want to keep going move onto Clay Club or a membership, which gets you the studio, the equipment and the kiln rather than a scheduled session. If you came with a group and want the room closed to everyone else, that is a private booking instead.
Not sure which one to book?
Tell us who is coming, whether you want the wheel or not, and roughly when. We will point you at one workshop rather than ten.
Ask us on WhatsAppSee all workshops & bookGood to know: public workshop places are paid in full at booking and prices are fixed. Cancellation terms are on our refund policy page. Pieces are collected from the studio in Excellence Tower, West Bay — we do not ship finished workshop pieces. Booking for a group of eight or more, a school, or a company? Go to private bookings or schools & institutes instead.