Here are the Course details, but if you need more information do mail me.

I will offer 4 courses for Terracotta & Pottery.

Introduction to Clay:

Prerequisites: An open mind

Course Duration: 4 Classes, 2  hours per class

Price: Rs. 1000 + 500 for Materials and firing

on the Wheel:

Beginners Course :

Prerequisites: Ideally finish the “Introduction to Clay” Course

Course Duration: 4 Classes, 2 hours per class

Price: Rs. 1500 + 500 for Materials and firing

Intermediate Course:

Prerequisites: Important to finish the Beginners Course

Course Duration: 10 Classes, 2 hours per class

Price: Rs. 2000 + 800 for Materials and firing

Expert Course:

Prerequisites: Important to finish the Intermediate Course

Course Duration: 14 Classes, 2 hours per class

Price: Rs. 3000 + 1000 for Materials and firing

Course for Children

Prerequisites: They are children! that’s all they need

Course Duration: 4 Classes, 2 1/2 hours per class. Happens every Saturday from 10:00am to 12:30pm

Price: Rs. 1000 + 500 for Materials and firing

I was looking for a material that was around the house which had an interesting shape which inturn could be used to express my concepts and ideas.   One shape got my attention more than others. This was the coconut shells. Always seen as a byproduct after cooking where its insides are used and the exterior mostly thrown away. The shape and the form intrigued me, ‘How could something so hard, house something so important’ I should know this, because I’m married into a Malayalee family who use coconuts for almost every kind of dish they prepare. This aspect of the coconut was something I need to bring out in my work, as the shape was much defined and I felt almost lead to do this piece.   I began my work by first collecting the shells. This was a long process and you usually don’t find only the shells in the market. Every time I used a coconut while cooking, I made sure that I cracked the nut carefully, without getting the splinters all around and then stashed them away.
Meanwhile, I started researching on the coconut as a material. Unlike my other works where first comes the concept, and then I decide to use a material that best suits the idea, in this case, I worked the other way round.  Just to know the extent of the uses of the coconut, a simple search on Wikipedia shows the innumerable ways the ‘lowly’ shell was used. It was even once used by a president of the Unites States, which adorned his desk during his presidency and is now kept in the John F. Kennedy Library.
While I was collecting these shells, I could somehow relate to someone who would collect stamps and coins. I began to think about this human behavior where somethings simple and seemingly unusable, we have a hard time throwing away things which we think might be precious some day. In the case of the stamps and old coins, they don’t hold an intrinsic value, but to the collectors it’s more precious than Gold.
While I was collecting these shells, I also looked at forms that could be associated to them and one such form really caught my attention. I found an interesting brass bowl, locked away in one of my relative’s shelf. They have been collecting brass ware for generations and are proud of it. I’m sure they never used it for its functional value but treasured for its emotional value. These brass bowls was very similar in shape and form to the coconut shell, probably could even be used for a similar function, but still managed to make the shelf, were as the coconut made it to the dust bin.
In my final work, I wanted the coconut shell and the brass bowl to share the same platform which brought them both to a similar value and status. This work also looks at a difference they have, where the shells are symbolic of nature and the brass bowl of human’s innovation, knowledge, workmanship and their skill in an assembly line.

“My Heritage – Giving”In the last few months i have been trying to observe and understand my family. Surprisingly I found, not one but many interesting characteristics which define my family and my role in it. I am sure this is not exclusive to my family alone, but also found in different families throughout India no matter their size. The best way to define our culture is by understanding a “family” and it’s values, small or big, joint or nucleus, they all have following things in common – giving, passing it on, uplifting. Most of the time it’s not only our parents, it could be an uncle, an aunt, grandma, grandpa, a sister, a brother or a cousin. What was so striking to me in a family was the way disciplines and knowledge passed on from one generation to another and how amazing that every generation has a story to tell.There are a few things which are given without asking – love, affection, care; through time some of the things are passed on – knowledge, talents, character, personality. It all started with the word “giving”, I felt optimistic, i saw hope and power in every generation. I started to explore forms which portray “giving”. The form that I have used in the first work is inspired from the way a bird feeds it’s young ones. The opening of the ceramic vessel is made to resemble the mouth of the birds while pecking for food. The texture on the vessel is to show how much they contain, the older one has more to give and the younger one has so much more to receive.