About the school
Founded in 2019 in a converted joinery. Four tutors, one kiln, twelve benches.
What we believe about teaching craft
Three positions that shape every course here, including the ones that cost us enrolments.
Fundamentals before style
Style is what you have left once the fundamentals are automatic. Teaching it first produces students who can make one thing.
Small enough to see everyone
A tutor who cannot watch your hands cannot correct what you are doing. That sets the class size, and the fee follows from it.
Finish things
Every course ends with completed, presented work. An unfinished portfolio teaches you nothing about finishing.
The tutors
All four still take commissions. That is not incidental.
Ingrid Solheim
Lettering — founder
Bea Ferreira
Surface pattern and print
Callum Reid
Ceramics
Yuki Tanaka
Editorial and typography
Find us
The studio is a ten-minute walk from the station. Open days on the first Saturday of each month — just turn up.
- studio@atelier.demo
- +44 191 496 0330
- The Old Joinery, Bell Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4QR