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Please browse the links below or on the right for information about Wobage’s resident potters and visiting tutors.
Jeremy Steward trained in Cornwall and then in Cardiff before being invited to join Wobage in 1995. Since then he has made wheel-thrown, wood-fired salt & soda-glazed stoneware.
Inspired by the history of European pot-making traditions as well as the soft fluidity of the materials themselves, pots are decorated in various ways; often embellished with stamps, [...]
This course is ideal for beginners, but offers opportunity for makers across all levels of ability to improve upon their range of skills and techniques in thrown stoneware. More experienced makers will have the opportunity to improve upon specific aspects of their throwing, turning and handling. On the third day of the course students may [...]
Throughout this four day course, led by Patia Davis, you will master some of the intrinsic qualities particular to working with stoneware and porcelain. Focusing on throwing, the course will demonstrate the need for a directness as well as a lightness of touch towards these beautiful materials. Beginning with simple form and basic approach, tuition [...]
This course invites a larger number of students, split into two groups and separate making workshops for hand-building or throwing. It replaces the 7 day combined making & salt-firing workshops of previous years.
The course invites experienced makers to develop specific areas of their production. Decoration and experimentation will form an important part of the course, [...]
Petra Reynolds trained in the South East and then on degree at Cardiff before joining Wobage in 1995.
Petra’s innovative techniques in slab-building and decorating have in recent years earned her a reputation as one of the leading contemporary makers in the UK. Construction begins with one of many paper templates. Clay slabs are then cut [...]
Patia Davis was invited to join the workshops at Wobage in 1991 following graduation from Cardiff and previously Harrow Studio Pottery Course.
Her gentle porcelain forms evoke a sense of quiet and calm. It is the beautiful smoothness of the thrown material which emphasises the directness of the maker’s touch; hand against rib, inner tension with [...]
The Wobage Farmhouse flat. Sheila Casson has a self-contained flat, a double with its own small bathroom and kitchen. £18/night. (sorry, the farmhouse flat is already fully booked for all courses in 2009)
Recommended Bed & Breakfasts
Sue and John Teire Winters Farm, Oxenhall, Newent, Glos. GL18 1RL Tel: 01531 821902.
Winters Farm is a lovingly restored timber-framed [...]
Nigel Lambert’s pots are both decorative and useful. He began his love of pottery and paintings whilst at art college in Cornwall. His interest in the work of abstract painters, particularly Roger Hilton, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron and other artists from the Cornish peninsula has influenced his work and the decorative marks he makes. His [...]
Bridget Drakeford has been designing and making pottery since 1977.
During the early years in Scotland she made domestic stoneware, but now works exclusively in porcelain using both reduction and oxidised firings.
She has been a prizewinner at the Mashiko Ceramics Competition in Japan, and at the World Ceramic Exposition in Korea. She won an Arts [...]
This course invites a larger number of students, split into two groups and separate making workshops for hand-building or throwing. It replaces the 7 day combined making & salt-firing workshops of previous years.
The course invites experienced makers to develop specific areas of their hand-building production. Nigel will be working with the construction of asymmetrical shapes; [...]
Evening classes at Wobage run on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, between 6.45 and 9.15pm, for three ten week blocks per annum. These 10 week courses, predominantly in thrown ceramics are suitable for beginners, intermediate and advanced makers. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 8 students to ensure sufficient one to one tuition and [...]
Now in it’s second year, this course has been extended by popular request in 2009 from 3 days to 4. The course is aimed at more experienced makers to develop their jug-making. Students will be encouraged to experiment with different scale and style of vessel. A strong emphasis will also be placed upon handling and [...]
Sarah Dunstan works from the Gaolyard Studios situated in St. Ives, Cornwall. Her slab-built stoneware and porcelain vessels have earned her international renown. After the success of her teaching at Wobage on the 7-day course in 2007, we are delighted she has agreed to return again in 2009.
She writes, “ I collect images, such as the shape [...]
This course, new in 2009, inspired a spirited and imaginative group of student dishes and bakers. Developed in direct response to Patia’s own exciting new ranges of both porcelain and earthenware, the 2010 course follows on with the same theme. The course content for 2010 is spread over 4 days, by popular request allowing [...]
Many of you will already have met Sheila on previous Summer courses at Wobage. Apprentice to Jeremy for 2009/2010, Sheila received the first grant under the ‘Adopt a Potter’ charity, initiated by Lisa Hammond. Sheila will be technician to the courses in 2010.
Sheila was a professional basket maker for over thirteen years, before changing her [...]
This new five day course, will encompass all aspects of wood-firing, from selection of timber, wadding, packing raw pots into the kiln, and firing. The downdraught ‘Fast-Fire’ type salt-kiln, will be pre-heated, fired and salted in shifts over approximately 18-20 hours. During the kiln cooling there will be a half day-trip out, along with some [...]
Josh was invited to become a new member to the Wobage Makers group in the Autumn of 2009. He has during the last 2 Summer course programmes at Wobage been drafted in for occasional demonstration and he soon begins a new evening class in October 2010. The traditional apprenticeship which he served in production throwing [...]