Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st August 1.30 to 5.30pm

In this workshop you will learn how the components of a teapot affect its aesthetics and function, and practise your skills making and assembling a wheel-thrown teapot of your own design.

Skills covered will include throwing a cylinder, bellying, forming a shoulder and gallery or rim, throwing a variety of lid forms, throwing a spout, pulling a handle, and assembling the teapot.

Experience level: prior ability to centre and throw a 1kg cyclinder.

Students are encouraged to bring along images of teapots that inspire them, and sketches of ideas they would like to make.

What to bring:
- at lest 4kg of your favourite clay
- your pottery tools
- images and sketches as above

Suzy Dunser

Suzy fell in love with clay while at a summer camp in Connecticut, USA. She came to NZ in 1995 and joined first the Titirangi Potters and then the Auckland Studio Potters before moving to Paeroa and joining WSP in 2021. Suzy enjoys making teapots because she likes the challenge of design, and problem solving how the pieces will go together.

Suzy is the WSP committee Secretary and a Phoenix wood kiln Firemaster.

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