This course 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 wish to experiment with raw-glazing and various methods of slip-decoration. If you are an absolute beginner with no experience at all in wheel throwing, then please view details on our be [...]
This course, now in it's 4th year, continues to inspire 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 2012 course follows on with the same theme. The course content for 2012 is spread over 4 days. Patia will be sharing the secrets of her new-found vocabulary of alluring and lively mark-making in slip-decoration.
The course programme considers both traditional and contempo [...]
This course is designed specifically for those with little or no experience of wheel throwing. If you are considering adopting clay as a hobby or you are interested in exploring wheel-throwing as a process to extend an existing creative practice, then this course is perfect for you. It is equally suitable as a taster for Herefordshire locals who might be considering enrolling on a 10 week term of evening classes at Wobage. We will focus on the very basics of throwing clay, centring, opening out [...]
Throughout this five 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 the beautiful material of Limoges porcelain. Beginning with simple form and basic approach, tuition and demonstration will advance towards more complex technique and form.
Wobage is a quiver with excitement to announce a new gu [...]
Tea and teapots came from China to England in the seventeen hundreds and potters ever since have been continually drawn towards the delights and challenges of this complex form. Today the teapot idiom is now quintessentially part of our English culture.
On this five day teapot course, students will tackle the making of separate components – body, spout, lid and handle. Tutorial and demonstration will swiftly advance towards the subtle relationships of these individual parts and how t [...]
New to the 2012 course programme, this course is designed for makers to develop more advanced techniques in wheel-throwing. We are delighted to welcome large-ware thrower Steve Parry from Norfolk as 1st time guest demonstrator and tutor for this course. In recent years Steve has become well known for his very large thrown and assembled pots, some standing up to 5ft tall.
Jeremy and Steve will demonstrate and provide one to one tutorial in a range of techniques in throwing and assembling large [...]
Following two successful years in 2009 & 2010, this course will now run every other year, alternating with the jar-making course.
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 composite throwing. On the fourth and fifth days of the course, students may wish to experiment with raw-glazing and various methods of slip-decora [...]
Evening classes at Wobage run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 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 a power-wheel for each participant. The focus of the classes is with the development of wheel-thrown work, along with other related skills such as clay pr [...]
New to the 2011 course programme, this jar-making workshop will run in alternate years with Jeremy's jug-making course. The next course will next run in the Summer of 2013. It will cover numerous aspects of jar and lid production, a subject so diverse so as to offer an abundance of creative avenue and skill challenges for participants.
A small selection of the very best pieces which have been slipped and glazed within the duration of the course can later be gas salt-fired. Any unfinis [...]
New to the 2011 programme, Wobage was delighted to invite internationally acclaimed designer-maker Tavs Jorgensen, for this plaster mould-making workshop. The output was focused on the creation of 'hump'moulds for slab-building and forming and what a fantastic and enjoyable time was had by all.
The improvers course following on from this 2011 workshop is scheduled for the Summer of 2013. Booking will not be made available for this course until Autumn 2012. Moving forward from the plas [...]