Hello mudslingers. The dates and details for our Summer School season 2026 are now available for everyone to browse on this website. They are for viewing only up until launch at 7pm on Sunday 14th December 2024, at which point they will be available for booking on a first come first served basis. Some of our Summer courses recurrently book out very quickly, so to avoid disappointment please consider booking promptly on Sunday evening.

We are delighted that Patia is back on the Summer school schedule after a year sabbatical. She’ll be teaching her ever popular 4½ day Earthenware Slip-decoration course which has enriched the making vocabulary of so many visiting students over the years.

It is very exciting for us to welcome newest member of Wobage Pottery to the 2026 teaching crew, Jem & Pet’s part-time assistant Isabelle Proffitt. Belle will be leading a new 2½ day workshop, ‘Impress & Stretch’ at the beginning of the season in May, sharing her love of stretched-slab-built porcelain. We can’t wait for this!

Jeremy teaches four different courses in June and July, all on different themes and course durations to suit varying budget. These are 3½ day ‘Thrown & Altered’, 3½ day ‘Clay Brainstorming’, 4½ day ‘Jars & Lids’ and finishing up with a 2-day ‘Up-right!’ to advance foundational wheel-throwing skills. 

Like last year, booking is now fully automated, with places secured once payment in full is complete via Paypal or online bank transfer. Our Refunds and Cancellations policy remains the same as in previous years, with the same timescales. You can read those details via this link to Terms & Conditions. If you’ve any queries with regard to any of this, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

If you are 25 yrs or under, and a Full-time student in Higher Education, or you are within your first year after having graduated, we invite a 20% discount on any of this season’s Summer courses. To secure this voucher, please get in touch via e-mail. You will need to provide evidence of the course that you’ve attended and organise a tutor reference, providing us with a contact e-mail or mobile number.

In between Friday and Sunday, each of the six courses will read ‘Out of Stock’. DON’T PANIC! This is just to give everyone a short, quiet window of opportunity to browse the course dates and details, they won’t actually have sold out before we’ve published them! We can’t wait to welcome new cohorts in to the Wobage throwing studio next Summer. 

Through the crowd funding process of KICKSTARTER…  Film maker, Moss Davis will now be able to go ahead with this exciting project. The initial baseline fund of £1,500 has now been reached, which is absolutely fantastic.

Phoebe Clive, owner of TINSMITHS in  the local town of Ledbury has been instrumnetal in believing and valuing,  the integrity and artistic quality  of Martin Clarkes’ Printers, so much so, that she has backed this filming project and believes it  merits archiving. Phoebe has also commissioned a short film to celebrate her current Exhibition at Tinsmiths …. a collaboration between printer Martin Clarke and Artist/Printmaker Mark Hearld.  This short is beautifully filmed by Moss …but then we would say so, wouldn’t we! Here you can see the style of  Moss’ filming.   So please do take a look at the Kickstarter information, and support this worthy venture click here and visit Tinsmiths shop to view the current Exhibition, of Mark Hearld, Artist/designer and Paul Young, potter. To view Moss’s other work browse SingularityFilm.

The Wobage Makers invite Cardiff graduate Josh Redman, for a couple of years in the pottery. After a busy Summer, technician to the Summer courses, Josh is settling back in to his own production of functional pots and sculpture. In hot pursuit of the rural Herefordshire idyll, he is baking bread as well as gas-fired reduction stoneware. Watch this space for an artist’s profile and some pics of his new work.

Finally, the Steward family have moved in to their home on the edge of the Forest of Dean!