The act of creation is therapeutic, it allows us to connect with ourselves and our environment and makes us live a little more mindfully – something we all need as individuals and as a society. This is a belief I have grown up with and hence, one of my primary aims at The Pottery Lab is to make the crafts accessible to the community not just via the space and facility but through the structure and methods of teaching as well.

 

At The Pottery Lab, I collaborate and host a craft or art practitioner to teach a workshop in their medium of practice. We design the workshop such that it’s challenging enough for an arts practitioner and an easy induction for absolute beginners.

 

Please follow me on instagram – @rekhagoyalx for updates about the workshops.
 

Upcoming Workshop

 

Form and light study with Aquarelles

• Date: 
  • Sunday, Nov 5th, 3 to 8 pm
• Age: 18 years and above
• What: This workshop is designed for anybody who would love to paint and understand the play of form, light and shadow while painting. Our medium is the exquisite Aquarelles, special water soluble oil pastels. This medium allows us to paint freely in an impressionistic style and then soften the painting with water colours.
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 5310 inclusive of Mungyo aquarelles, wstercolour paper, brushes etc.
• Cancellations are non-refundable
• To register: Please whatsapp us at 99200-21400 and we’ll share payment details with you for you to pay and block your spot.

 

 

Getting started with Oil Pastels

• • Date: 
    • Thursday & Friday, 5th & 6th October 2023
    • 5 to 8 pm on both days
  • Age: 18 years and above
  • What: This 2-day workshop is designed for you if you have never done or barely done oil pastels before. The workshop will give you an art school methodology on how to approach the medium, you’ll do some tests and practice on the first day and then make a landscape on the second.
  • Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
  • Fee: Rs. 7080 inclusive of materials
  • Cancellations are non-refundable
  • To register: Please whatsapp us at 99200-21400 and we’ll share payment details with you for you to pay and block your spot.

 

 
 

Past Workshops

Metal enameling on copper bowls

• Date: 
  • Tuesday, 15th March 2022
  • 10 am to 1 pm 
• Age: 12 years and above
• What: This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basics of enameling on metal, in this case – copper bowls
  • Each participant will receive one bowl of 4 x 6 inches
  • Shaping, modification and finishing of the bowl will be taught
  • Participants will then enamel the bowl using fluxes, wet application and sgraffito technique
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 3600+ GST inclusive of all materials
• Cancellations are non-refundable

 

 

Introduction to Watercolours – Sky and waterscapes

• Date: 
  • Friday, 26 March 2021 
  • 10 am to 4 pm 
• Age: 16 years and above
• What: This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basic fundamentals and approach to water colours through techniques of creating sky and waterscapes
  • The workshop is for beginners to watercolours
  • Participants need to carry the following materials – a set of watercolour tubes, palette, two containers for water, rough cloth, soft round brushes.
  • Water colour paper for the workshop will be provided at actual cost
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 3000+ GST not inclusive of materials
• Cancellations are non-refundable

Fundamentals of Drawing & Rendering

• Date: 
  • Thursday, 18 March 2021 
  • 10 am to 4 pm 
• Age: 16 years and above
• What: This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basic fundamentals and approach to drawing and pencil rendering (shading and drawing of three-dimensional forms). The workshop format will include a demo by the teacher, theory and work by the students.
  • Introduction to the materials, basic fundamentals and approach in drawing, types of rendering, light and form study through sphere drawing
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 4000+ GST not inclusive of materials
• Cancellations are non-refundable

 The workshop will be taught by artist Vaibhav Naik, alumni of Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai.
 

 

Techniques of Printing on clay

• Date: 
  • Batch 1: Thu & Fri, 20 & 21 Feb 2020 (Full)
  • Batch 2: Sat & Sun, 22 & 23 Feb 2020 (Full)
  • 10 am to 5 pm each day
• Age: 16 years and above
• What:
  • There are various techniques of printing photographs, patterns, paintings on clay surfaces. This workshop will focus on four such techniques –
    • Silk screen printing
    • Laser print transfer
    • Photo lithography
    • Carbon transfer
  • In this workshop, participants will work on –
    • 4 clay tiles of 5 x 5 inches each (one for each technique)
    • 1 three-dimensional object in any one of the techniques
  • The workshop has been structured such that there will be enough practise time for each technique. The final pieces created will be left behind at the studio for firing. They can be collected from the studio once fired in about 2 weeks.
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 8500 + GST inclusive of all materials, glazing & firing of all pieces
• Cancellations are non-refundable

 

 

Découpage

• • Date: Sunday 17th November 2019, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
  • Age: 12 years and above
  • What:
    • Découpage is a craft technique of transferring paper prints to a hard surface to decorate objects.
    • In this workshop, participants will work on 2 wooden candle-stands using different decoupage techniques for surface treatment such as paper tissues, stencils, painting and relief work.
    • The sizes of the wooden candle-stands are 6 and 4.5 inches in height. 
  • Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
  • Fee: Rs. 2200 + GST inclusive of all materials 
  • Cancellations are non-refundable

 

 

Watercolour Landscape workshop for beginners

• Date: Monday to Friday, 21 to 25 Oct 2019, 7 to 9 pm
• Age: 16 years and above
• What: An introduction to watercolour painting as follows –
  • Day 1: Sketching, drawing in perspective, rendering
  • Day 2: Introduction to the medium of watercolours, brushes, paper, basic techniques – demo and practise
  • Day 3: Watercolour landscape in monochrome
  • Day 4: Watercolour landscape in colour
  • Day 5: Completion of paintings, repeat to correct mistakes
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 6600 + GST not inclusive of materials
  • Students can bring their own materials. If not, they can be purchased from the studio. Please let us know in advance so that materials can be organised accordingly.
  • At an additional cost of Rs 1500, we will provide the following: watercolour paper 270 gsm, camlin artist watercolours 24 shades, 6 round brushes and 3 flat brushes (squirrel hair), palette, pencils, drawing pad
• Cancellations are non-refundable

 

 

Macrame

• Date: Friday 5th April 2019, 9 am to 1 pm
• Age: 12 years and above
• What:
  • Workshop on the craft of decorative knotting called macrame
  • 3 knots will be taught and used to design and create the macrame object
  • Participants will make a hanging pot holder in macrame of appx size 8 x 30 inches
• Location: The Pottery Lab, Bandra, Mumbai
• Fee: Rs. 3000 + GST inclusive of all materials (Wood, macrame rope, beads)
• Cancellations are non-refundable

 

 

We have also conducted sculpture and metal enameling workshops in the past.