Workshops at Wobage

06/12/2022

Dear friends and mudslingers. Our season of Wobage Pottery Summer schools for 2023 will be published online on our Courses website this Thursday 8th December at 7pm. As soon as these full details are live on the website, you’ll be able to book:
www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk

In the meantime, here are the dates for you to browse.
Weekend: ‘Up-Right?’ Improvers - Saturday 24th/ Sunday 25th June
4½ day: ‘Thrown & Altered’ Improvers -Tuesday 4th July 2pm - Saturday 8th July 4pm
4½ day: ‘Define & Refine’ Improvers - Tuesday 18th July 2pm - Saturday 22nd July 4pm
2 day: ‘Jugs’ Improvers - Wed. 2nd/Thurs. 3rd August

08/09/2022

Wobage Gallery is open every day this week until Sunday 11th, for h’Art- Herefordshire Art Week, Open Studios. The Gallery looks fantastic and is stocked bountifully with new work from all the Wobage Makers. Pots, Kitchenwood, Glass, Jewellery and Wildwicker. Please join us for a natter, a coffee and slice of home-made cake!

18/07/2021

TEAPOT COURSE : LATE CANCELLATION. Please Share, thank you!

We’ve just had a very late cancellation for my forthcoming Teapot course, which is an Intermediate Improvers running from next Wednesday afternoon 21st at 2pm, for 4.5 days until Sunday 25th July. This course runs every other year, so next opportunity isn’t until 2023. Here are some further details. Please DM me if you are interested. You’ll find further details about our courses here on the website: www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk

The Casson's have simple self-catering available in the Wobage Farmhouse, at £35 per night.

Spread over 4½ days, this course is aimed at more experienced makers to develop their Teapot making in wheel-thrown stoneware. The course will however cater for intermediate and advanced students at different levels of capability.

Students will be encouraged to experiment with different scale and style of vessel. A strong emphasis will be placed upon developing different configurations for lids and galleries. We will also cover clay preparation and wedging techniques along with the range of throwing techniques required to make better upright and spherical forms more efficiently and confidently. Students will be encouraged to look closely at the weights and measures of their teapots and to challenge these in relation to ergonomics and fitness to purpose. One-to-one and group tutorial will be tailored to inspire students to develop new skills and to imaginatively expand upon their own individual range of pots.

The studio invites a maximum of 9 students for this course. Each participant will enjoy unlimited access to our high-quality stoneware clay, and a power wheel for the full duration. The wheel models are predominantly Fitzwilliam Rayefcos along with a couple of Alsagers. There is a Saviac kick-wheel if anyone prefers to treadle their way to their ultimate teapot-making!

The course begins on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st July, 2pm – 5pm, through to 4pm Sunday 25th. Tuition hours otherwise are 10am-4pm. The studio is freely available for students to work outside of these hours, early or late.

Fabulous home-made vegetarian lunches along with morning and afternoon refreshments are included in the price of this course.
Students will be invited to select two favourite teapots to be salt-glazed and wood-fired at a cost of £4/lb. A maximum of 4 further teapots may be selected for bisque firing, priced at £1.50/lb and as much work as you wish can be taken home green at £1/lb.

07/01/2021

05/01/2021

Through good times, or those more challenging, our friend and former boss, Mick Casson, is often in my thoughts. Petra and I worked for him as part-time apprentices at Wobage between 1995 and his death in December 2003.
I remember his softness, his wisdom, generosity and fairness so vividly. Whether we were sat chatting during a kiln firing, or around the farmhouse table drinking tea, conversation was always rich, diverse and uplifting. There is one dynamic aspect of his personality from which I perhaps learned most importantly; that even when you presently believe strongly in one thing or another, you must remain open to be wrong, and willing with an open mind, to change your opinion, maybe just a little, or completely! This presence of mind has inspired me in every facet of living. But especially in my creative journey. I’d love to hear from those of you who have been influenced by Mick, in whatever ways, whether you knew him personally or not. These pics were taken in about 1997, by William Moss.

16/12/2019

Wobage Pottery Winter News 2019 - https://mailchi.mp/ec32bd75fe6e/wobage-pottery-winter-news-498805

09/12/2019

Our season of Summer Schools for 2020 is now live on the website and available for booking!

Patia, Petra and Jeremy are very much looking forward to next Summer, to welcoming a fresh cohort of students, and meeting friends old and new.

For further details, please visit the individual course pages on our website.

Jeremy’s courses in wheel-thrown stoneware, begin with ‘Jugs & Pourers’, 6-9th July, followed by ‘Teapots’, 22nd - 26th July, and finally ‘Clay-Brainstorming’, 30th July - 2nd August.

Patia will be running her now legendary 4-Day Earthenware Slip-decorating course between 16th and 19th July.

You should find all the information you need on each of these individual course pages, but if there's anything we've not covered, please don't hesitate to get in touch via our contact form. Also if you are in any way unsure about the skill level at which you'll be entering any of the courses. We are very happy to answer any questions!

We very much look forward to welcoming you to Wobage Workshops, South Herefordshire in 2020! https://www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk/pottery-courses/

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03/11/2019

A few pots from the yield of the last evening class firing of the new Phoenix wood-salt kiln. Once the kiln is cool and the draw is made, they are often whisked away to new homes much too quickly! These weighing scale pile ups are a pleasurable time for reflection and discussion with students; surface, colour, textures, weight, ergonomics, varying position of pots in the pack, successes and subs! Always I am trying to keep everyone’s mind open towards the unexpected and the serendipities of the firing. Some beautiful results you talented mudslingers!

21/10/2019

First evening-class students firing in the new Phoenix wood-salt kiln. Plenty of very exciting results!

26/07/2019

Here at Wobage Pottery, we’ve had a VERY last minute cancellation for our forthcoming ‘Jars’ Improvers. It's the last course of our Summer season, and begins next Monday 29th July, through to Thursday 1st August. It’s a three and a half day course, suitable for varied ability wheel throwers of intermediate level. Lots of lid making and a chance to lift your skill base in upright forms. Delicious vegetarian lunches including our own sourdough. For more information and details on booking, please visit our website: https://www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk/…/jars-improvers-3-a…/
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02/07/2019

We've had a late cancellation for our forthcoming 'Jars' course, 29th July- 1st August. It's a 3 and a half day Improvers aimed at Intermediate and Advanced makers. For further details, please visit the individual course page on our website. Please share! Thank you.
http://www.workshops-at-wobage.co.uk/news/jars-improvers-3-a-half-days-29thjuly-1st-aug-2019/