Wheel classes, handbuilding, and open studio hours in a room that smells like wet clay. Twelve wheels, two kilns, and no such thing as a wasted afternoon.
Centering, pulling walls, trimming, and the humbling first month where everything collapses. Clay, glaze and firings included.
Pinch, coil and slab — no wheel, no hurry. Leave with plates that are visibly yours, in the best possible way.
For potters past the wobble stage: shelf space, glaze library, kiln runs twice a week, and a key code that works at 6am.
Marta and Jo met at a community studio that closed in 2019, and opened Kiln & Coil so the people from that room would still have somewhere to go. The wheels are old, the kilns are new, and the radio argues with itself all afternoon.
Classes stay small — eight people, never more — because throwing is taught hands-on or not at all.
iron red · oat · moss celadon · tenmoku · lilac ash · amber
"I came for one course three years ago. I now own more mugs than a café and I regret nothing."
— Ania, open studio member
Open studio — Tue–Fri, 10:00–21:00
Classes — evenings & Saturdays
Find us — Rebar Yard 12, back building, second floor
Wheel Fundamentals or Handbuilding — both assume nothing. If you can't decide, come to an open evening and try both for the price of a coffee.
Things that can end their life covered in slip. We provide aprons, but clay is ambitious.
Glazed work comes out two to three weeks after your last session. We'll email you when the kiln gods deliver.
Yes — private sessions for up to eight run on Sunday afternoons. Write to us with a date and we'll sort the rest.