Course Structure
In 1939 Michael Cardew, studio potter and world famous ceramic stylist, moved his pottery from Winchcombe in Gloucestershire to Cornwall where her preferred the light. In search of better lights yet, or maybe just more light, Seth Cardew, his eldest son has moved from Wenford Bridge to the sunny hillsides of estern Spain and has taken his pottery with him!

Tuition is centered on throwing, but it is much more and very much tailored to individual needs and wishes. Each student has his or her own wheel; clay and tools are provided. A wide range of pot making skills will be expounded. The basic thrown shapes of bowls, cylinders, mugs and covered pots are amongst the course topics. Trimming, pulling handles and dressing with brushwork are also addressed. Seth shares is private philosophy of unity, honesty and simplicity in shape of form as well as the use of proportion and visual rhyme in decoration. All activities are aimed at cultivating self expression and creativity.

The aim is that students accomplish private goals, improve or overcome and weaknesses and progress in areas or private interest. New and exciting concepts and skills become accessible to each student regardless of his or her previous experience.

Teaching takes place daily from 10am until 2pm when there is a break for the mid-day meal. After lunch which is a highlight of the day in any self respecting resident of Spain, most people want a siesta or even a good long sleep at times. Not withstanding that fact, the pottery is open throughout the balance of the afternoon and evening for the enthusiast and Seth can easily be persuaded to answer questions of give advice. It is a good relaxed informal time to review and perfect morning activities, pose any questions or to just keep one's hand in the clay. It can also be a wonderful time for exploring the enchanting and awesome surroundings.

Pricing in Euros
One week course	€750
Scheduled weeks: June 3rd, Jun 17th, July 1st, September 2nd, & September 16th Please enquire if you are looking for a different week to these quoted as we may be able to add more weeks.
Fees include tuition, breakfast, tea break and lunches Monday through Friday, Friday night Tapa and Wine party, Saturday breakfast and accomodation. Evening meals are not included although the accomodation offers a well equipped kitchen and there is a choice of restaurants within 10 to 20 minutes drive.

Accommodation
In addition to excellant tuition the course weeks offers a true Spanish experience. Housing is on pottery gounds in a century old stone cassa which has been carefully restored to maintain a balance between preserving original features and providing convenience and comfort. Set in the magnificient, unspoilt mountains of Castellon Province, El Cid country. True España, yet only 40 minutes by car from some of the nicest Mediterranean beaches in Spain.

The patio outside the casa overlooks the countryside, with almond and olive groves against a mountain backdrop.

Tutor
Seth Cardew passed through Chelsea School of Art and Camberwell Sculpture School. His career has included teaching, exhibiting, throwing and modelling clay. Many of Seth's pieces are in permanent collections worldwide including the V&A Museam in London.

Location
In guide books it is referred to as 'El Cid Country' a rugged yet majestic area in the heart of Spains ceramic district. The pottery is established in the mountain range that rises behind the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea in a small masia or hamlet called Masia Albadas. It is a very beautiful Masia, and the pottery has been build in the covered area that previously housed farm animals and has a wood fired bread oven. There are 18 inhabitants at Albadas and they mainy divide their time among pruning and harvesting almonds and olives, tending goats on stone terraces and doing the very Spanish activity of sitting in the shade chatting, attendant on the coming fiesta. The addition of a local pottery has greatly enhanced the level of local conversation.

The area is dotted with small villages, each with its own church where choirs sing unaccompanied as they have done for centuries, and each village boasts an open market where vendors barter their wares on the appointed day of the week, every week of the year.

Between and among the villages, hills are decorated with smaller communities or masias. Shephers still tend their flocks which wander daily among terraces of almond and olive groves where farmers lovingly prune and trim trees by hand.

How to Get to Us
We are 35 minutes by car from the train station at Castellon de la Plana, which is our nearest large town. Students usually fly into either Valencia airport which is 1-1/2 hours by car from the pottery or Barcelona which is about a 4 hour drive. Both of those airports have very east train connections for arriving at Castellon de la Plana where we are happy to collect. Another popular option is to hire a car at Valencia airport and drive to Albadas.

Driving directions are as follows: Leave Valencia airport taking signs to Valencia and watch for signs for Castellon although you will not go into Castellon. You need to get onto the CV10 and watch for the sign to La Pobla Tornesa. Stay on the CV10 until the Val D'Alba exit. Skirt around the edge of Val D'Alba (just follow the road) and after you go past the bull ring, you will be at a round about where one of the exits is to Villa Franca. Take that exit, you should be on the CV15 at this point. You're almost home. Follow the CV15 through a few villages, the largest of which is Els Ibarsos. There are signs on the right side of the road telling how many kilometers you have come down the CV15. Just past the 23 kilometer signpost, you will find the left hand turning into Albadas. You can see the masia from the highway.