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Pottery studio to let – Buckfastleigh
Located 5 minutes from the A38 and buses from Plymouth, Exeter, Newton Abbot and Totnes. The size is approximately 4m x 2m The workshop has a sink and water as well as electricity and light and lots of shelving and cupboard space. Windows along one side and south facing opening out to a garden Rent is negotiable depending on circumstances…
Event: Rebecca Buck Masterclass – Abstract Sculpture Using Clay Armatures (14/15-Mar-2026)
Rebecca Buck Masterclass Abstract Sculpture Using Clay Armatures Saturday 14th & Sunday / 15th March 2026 (10am-4pm) £220.08 (inc booking fee) (https://booking.bookinghound.cloud/fe/book?og=30690461-233e-4566-b5f9-5de878ee133a&mode=a&uniqueId=133) Hosted by Ceramics Academy, EX36 3BY
Social Firing days. 16th & 17th July. Tarka Pottery. Little Torrington
We had two excellent days at our annual Social Firing in the lovely studio and grounds of Tarka Pottery. 34 members in total [17 on each day] took part in a wide variety of smoky pottery activities supported by a great team of voluntary helpers. As ever with WPA events like this everyone joined in with enthusiasm and we all…
Creative Breaks in Herefordshire
WPA member Pearl Taylor has given this information. This year, Creative Breaks is celebrating 25 years of reviving, supporting, and championing both traditional and contemporary crafts across Herefordshire and the surrounding counties. Courses and Crafting with Heart Our 13 members are a passionate and experienced bunch—deeply rooted in their crafts and always eager to pass on their skills. Personally, I host…
Ceramics: A Green Approach by Kevin Millward
From extracting clay to exporting your work, this is a practical guide to producing unique ceramic pieces with minimal environmental impact. Being a green potter is not an easy feat. Historically, a lot more attention is given to the finished pieces coming out of the kiln rather than to the damages made throughout the designing and making processes. In this…
Presentation and demonstration by Russell Martin. Sunday 18th May 2025 Puriton Village Hall
Russell and his wife Suzi brought a number of his stunningly decorated pots with them. He gave us a very detailed and well presented demonstration of how he makes the forms. He then showed us how he decorates them with his delightful scenes reflecting Cornish folk traditions and legends often involving mermaids or sailors. He does this by applying black…
Exhibition – Fish, Fur& Feathers – animal Designs in Studio Pottery, 31st May to 30th August 2025, Winchcombe
An exhibition called Fish, Fur& Feathers-animal Designs in Studio Pottery has just started, 31st May to 30th August 2025 at The Edgeler Collection, Queen Anne House, High Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, GL54 5LJ. Wednesday to Saturday, 10.30 am to 4.30 pm . Please refer to www.edgelercollection.com for details.
CORNWALL POTTERS COLLECTIVE – EXHIBITION – 21st to 27th June 2025
CORNWALL POTTERS COLLECTIVE THE CRYPT GALLERY STIVES CELEBRATING EIGHT CORNWALL-BASED CERAMICISTS, BRINGING TOGETHER CREATIVE TECHNIQUES AND DISCIPLINES IN ONE COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION NICKY STONE, SARAH SULLIVAN, JESS BERRIMAN, KRISSY BUSVIAH, GAIL COOPER, BELLA BARKER HALL, JANA GILFILLAN, CARA FITZMAURICE SAT 21ST – FRI 27TH JUNE 11 AM-6 PM THE CRYPT GALLERY CHURCH PLACE, ST IVES, TR26 INA
Ceramics Academy – Cage fruit bowl workshop, South Moulton
Cage Fruit Bowl Workshop Ceramics Academy Saturday 26th April 9.30am-12pm £45 plus booking fee Ceramics Academy – Cage fruit poster for WPA
Ceramics Academy – Monday classes, South Moulton
This class is ideal for those who have a good working knowledge of the ceramic process and wish to broaden and increase both technical and design skills. Whilst working on your own projects, you will be encouraged and supported to experiment with different methods of making, decoration and glazing techniques, enabling individual creative potential. Throughout the term there will be…
Retiring potter offers FREE materials
Clare Copeley-Williams has the following list of materials she is happy to offer for free together with some assorted underglaze colours that may be of interest. Talc Washed wood ash Whiting Quartz Soda felspar Cornish stone x2 Flint Aluminium oxide Molochite x2 Potash feldspar Colmanite Bentonite Located in Shaftesbury, North Dorset, SP7 8AX Please can people contact me by phone…
Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild – Potters Open Day
Join the DCPG’s 50th Anniversary celebrations at our Potters Open Day 2025. Tickets for the Zoom event are available now. In-person tickets have sold out, but you can sign up to the waiting list on Eventbrite, where you will find full details of the day.
Pottery Classes at Ridge Pottery
Seren Birtles, Apprentice at Ridge Pottery, will be starting up Jennie’s weekly pottery classes again this January. With input from Douglas and Jennie, Seren will guide students through a 10 week course, giving a comprehensive overview of the full making process. These sessions will explore a range of hand building and throwing techniques with one-to-one tuition tailored for beginners and…
Bursary opportunities in the South West
We have been made aware of two opportunities by differing organisations who are offering bursaries, listed below. The Leach pottery St Ives – The Potter’s beginnings Do you know a local young person (18-25 years old) who would love to receive a fully funded, year-long pottery course? The Potter’s Beginnings is a course that offers an unmissable chance for a young…
Social Firing days. 15th & 16th September
We held our annual social firing days in the lovely surroundings of Tarka Pottery at Little Torrington. We had two very successful and highly enjoyable days with 15 members on each day aided and abetted by ten helpers. After glazing our biscuit fired pots, we fired them in three raku kilns and also ran a barrel firing. This meant that…
Ceramexe CIC – Winter Exhibition
Venue St Stephen’s Church, Exeter, High St, Exeter EX4 3LW From November Friday 22 to Saturday 23rd It features some of our members Barry Levy, Helen Sargent, Patsy Lang, Edward King, Thomas Payne, Anna Hearn and Claire Davey alongside our amateur potters who are doing their first ever show. Please do come along, free entry.
Laurel Keeley workshop
We are absolutely delighted that Laurel has run a workshop for us in the lovely surroundings of Coombe Farm Studios in late October. What an enjoyable day was had by all, there will be a full write up in the magazine soon, but here are a few images from the day.
WPA anagama firing of the Kigbeare Community Kiln
This summer saw the inaugural WPA firing of the Kigbeare Community Kiln. Over 1200 pots from 49 members were loaded into the kiln and fired over 5 days by a firing team of over 30 guided by a small core team with experience of such firings. It proved to be not only to be a good firing with some beautiful…
100 mugs – Your invitation to get involved!
Your invitation to get involved in the opening of the Create CIC pottery at the Create Contemporary Crafts Hub in Camborne! Our official opening is 3-6pm on Saturday 7 September 2024 and we’ll hope you’ll come and celebrate with us. We will be showcasing our beautiful new pottery with separate glaze, plaster and kiln rooms. In the pursuit of making…
Tom Kemp Throwing with Porcelain one day taster sessions
To celebrate his move to a new studio at Kigbeare, Tom Kemp will be running two one-day taster sessions to introduce you to throwing with porcelain, These are on 31st August and 7th September. Contact kigbeare@gmail.com for more details