Start your practice

Start Your Practice

At Clay & Tao, ceramics is approached as a sustained and evolving practice rather than a one-time activity. Participants are invited to enter the studio through different pathways depending on their experience, curiosity and relationship to clay.

Whether you are drawn to hand-building or to the wheel, the studio supports a gradual deepening of technical confidence, material understanding and personal expression.

A flexible seasonal practice framework

Unlike fixed-term courses or unguided open studios, Clay & Tao proposes a flexible format based on class packs that can be used according to individual rhythm and availability.

At the same time, the studio offers seasonal practice orientations that provide subtle continuity and direction over time.
These orientations are not structured as programmes or required pathways, but as evolving focuses that support deeper engagement with material and technique.

This flexible seasonal practice framework allows ceramics to become a meaningful and sustainable practice while preserving freedom of participation.

Choose your entry pathway

Participants may begin their ceramic journey through different approaches.

Clay Practice (hand-building focus)

An intuitive and grounding entry into ceramics through direct contact with material.
Hand-building supports sensitivity to form, rhythm and structural understanding while allowing a slower and more contemplative engagement with clay.

Suitable for beginners, creative professionals or those wishing to develop a more embodied relationship to making.

Flexible class packs allow participants to join regular small-group sessions.

10 hours pack
CHF 410

20 hours pack
CHF 720

Private Introduction to Wheel Practice

Wheel throwing is introduced through individual sessions designed to create safety, clarity and confidence.

This private format allows participants to learn the essential foundations of posture, breath and centred movement before joining group practice.

The approach is informed in part by slow throwing principles inspired by the work of ceramic artist Joëlle Swanet.

Private wheel introduction (90 min)
CHF 150

Developing continuity

Once familiar with the studio environment, participants gradually build continuity through regular attendance.

With a maximum of four participants per session, Clay & Tao provides sustained personal guidance and meaningful technical progression.
Participants are supported in developing both practical skills and a personal visual language rather than following a standardised curriculum.

Over time, ceramics becomes less about isolated projects and more about cultivating a coherent and evolving practice.

Begin your practice

Clay & Tao is conceived as a place to return to — a calm and focused studio where ceramics can gradually become an integrated part of everyday life.

Start your ceramic practice →