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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]