Pottery Classes
LAA has a modern purpose-built pottery/ceramic studio for beginners, dabblers & experienced alike.
Our facility offers workspace for around 15 handbuilders, 10 late model professional potters wheels, a supply of tools and equipment including; slab rollers, extruder, pugging machine, slip molds, glazes, underglazes, electric kilns and a Raku kiln.
Tutored classes last 3 hours and cost $27.50 for non-members, $22 for members. Classes are pay-as-you-go. Your tutors and facilitators are there to provide support and teach you all the techniques to help you create. You can work at your own pace.
Clay and glazes are available for purchase in the studio, and firing is done at very reasonable cost.
Weekend workshops are scheduled throughout the year. For experienced potters we have day and evening social groups with a pottery facilitator on hand. Kitchenette facilities are also available.
Pottery Tutors
Isabell Warman
Isabell began her pottery endeavours in Ingham in 1983 and has practiced continually since then with various pottery groups. She has been teaching for 35 years and enjoys passing on her knowledge of both hand-building and wheel throwing to other like-minded people. Isabell is particularly interested in experimenting with glazes, with a strong interest in crystalline glazes.
Marsha Brockhurst
Marsha commenced her pottery practice in 2012 at Logan Artists Association under first teachers Ray Outteridge and Mary Ashmore. She has a passion for teaching others the intricacies of wheel throwing and the foundational techniques of hand-building. Her interests lie in functional form and design, textured surfaces, exploring various decorating techniques and alternative firing methods.
Helen Hodges
Helen has had a love for pottery since joining Logan Artists Association in 2015. She is adept in the many aspects of hand-building. She enjoys helping her students to conceptualise their design ideas and to realise their artistic objectives. Helen is naturally drawn to the quirky and colourful, with skills and knowledge in both fired and cold-finish decorating techniques, to produce unique mixed media pieces she describes as Art with Heart.
Don Balfour
Don began his pottery journey at the age of 18 at Clay Dreamers in Victoria, then subsequently at the Gold Coast Potters’ Association. His teaching encompasses all pottery techniques, including wheel and hand-building methods. He is a great believer in experimentation, letting students find their own path with subtle guidance and support to accomplish their artistic dreams with a lot of fun, laughter, and love.
Alyson Maloney
Alyson commenced her pottery endeavours with hand-building, evolving to the wheel and now uses both together to create. She likes to utilise techniques such as slip casting, tissue paper transfers and other various hand-building methods. Alyson loves to see what everyone creates and sources information online to enhance her own pottery practice and assist students with their ideas.
Judy Sok
Judy has a special love for surface decoration in her pottery practice, using techniques that bring beauty and character to each piece. Some favourite methods include screen-printing with underglaze to create organic, free-flowing patterns; stamping textures into the clay; and glazing methods that enhance texture details.
