PodcastArts
Slow Clay
Hosted by Mara Quinn5 episodes
Short, unhurried conversations from a small pottery studio: throwing, glazing, firing, and making a living from the wheel.
Latest episode
Episode 5
Teaching my first class
Six strangers, six wheels and a lot of mud: what I learned from running my first beginners’ evening.
More episodes
- Episode 4
Firing day nerves
What actually happens inside the kiln, and how to stop opening the lid too early.
- Episode 3
Pricing a mug without apologising
How I worked out what a mug really costs me, and the sentence I say when someone asks why it is not cheaper.
- Episode 2
Glazes I keep coming back to
Three glazes that have earned a place on my shelf, and the one test tile habit that saves every kiln load.
- Episode 1
Centring, and why it humbles everyone
The first thing the wheel teaches you, and the small change in your elbows that makes it click.