The dates and details for our Summer School season 2025 are now available for everyone to browse on this website. They are for viewing only up until launch at 7pm on Thursday 5th 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 Thursday 5th.

Please note that we have recently made some nuts and bolts updates to this website, and booking going forwards will be fully automated, with places secured once payment in full is complete via Paypal or online bank transfer. Our Refunds and Cancellations policy remains very similar to 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 30 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 Jeremy’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. 

Top shelf jugs just drawn from our Phoenix wood-salt kiln, now at Wobage Makers Gallery for our Christmas Exhibition, Open 10:00-17:00, and every Thursday, Friday & Saturday up until Christmas.

First home-made mince pies of the season are delicious! Please join us for a natter and a fresh coffee. The Gallery is looking fantastic with new stock from everyone.

Buy local, buy hand-made this Christmas!

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We are busy firming up final dates and details for our 2025 season of Wobage Summer schools, whilst also making some ‘nuts n bolts’ website updates. The new season will launch and be available for booking from the beginning of December. The 4½ day Teapot course is back by popular demand. Also on the programme is the 2 day ‘Up-right!’, 3½ days ‘Define & Refine’, 3½ days ‘Jug-making’ and finally a 2 day course ‘Lids’ unsurprisingly dedicated exclusively to the wonderful challenges of lid-making! These courses begin on 16th June with Jug-making, and continue through until the end of July. Much more detail, and a new booking system here very soon. Watch this space and sign up to our very occasional Newsletter subscription.
Warm wishes,
Jem, Petra and Patia

Photo credit: Layton Thompson

Dear friends and mudslingers. We are excited to announce that 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.

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

Wobage Makers Gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10am-5pm up until Christmas. We close for business this year at 5pm on Thursday 23rd December.

Our Gallery is spacious and well-ventilated, and packed full of fresh stock for Christmas. Please join us for a quiet browse away from the bustle of the High Streets, a natter with one of the Wobage makers, coffee and a home-made mince-pie. HR9 7QP.

Please don’t be alarmed by the local road closure. Our B road is closed at the top of the junction with the A449 Ledbury Road. From the M50, please simply follow the diversion signs via the Phocle Green B-Road where you’ll arrive at the Moody Cow Pub. Simply turn left here at the T-junction, down the hill past the ‘Road Closed’ sign. The Wobage entrance is on the left side as you come back up the hill.

We very much look forward to seeing you. Buy local this Christmas and support your local community of artists. Thank you.

Hey lovely mudslingers

Yes, we have three courses now available for booking for 2022. As we approach the shortest day with another dark dreary morning, I am already yearning for Petra’s yummy lunches under the Wobage canopy and long Summer evenings.

By popular demand, we start the season with ‘Clay-Brainstorming’, This course seeks to provide ideas for risk taking and creating new outcomes. Students will be encouraged and supported by Jeremy to explore specific exercises to brainstorm, invent and expand upon new work.

‘Lidded’ replaces the Teapot and Jar-making courses of previous years. 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, and there are many to keep us entertained! Intermediates may prefer to develop jars and casseroles, whilst those with more experience may wish to work exclusively on teapots.

‘Big Improvers’ is designed for makers to develop more advanced techniques in wheel-throwing. We are delighted to welcome Jack Welbourne, to tutor alongside Jeremy for the final two days of this course. Jeremy and Jack will demonstrate and provide one to one tutorial, in a range of techniques in throwing and assembling larger forms. We guarantee that we will improve your skills in throwing more clay, more comfortably. We will begin with techniques in single piece throwing and move on to various methods of multi-part throwing and assembling. This will include multi-part wet throwing, a method often coined ‘Carolinian Capping’, as well as ‘Coil and Throw’.

We can’t wait to welcome students to the throwing studio next Summer. Whether or not you’ve been part of the Wobage mudslinging community in previous years, we guarantee you plenty of fun and creative challenge in 2022.

Thanks for your patience mudslingers. Our courses programme for next year, will be live and available for booking very shortly!

The Wobage Gallery is looking absolutely fantastic for Christmas, and is brimming with top quality stock from all our resident makers.

Patia has a fabulous and diverse range of stock in both Slip-decorated Earthenware, and Porcelain. Petra has been busy in the pottery once again, making her unique range of slab-built domestic ware, wood salt-fired alongside Jeremy’s wheel-thrown stoneware. Pet has also been prolific in the Print Shed in Madley, Jill Barnaby’s communal print workshop, where she has been printing a selection of collographs, complimenting her pots perfectly.

New to the Gallery this year, is Nina Casson McGarva’s wonderful and contemporary glass jewellery. Abstract shapes and careful juxtaposition of colour, make each pendant and pair of ear-rings a unique gift. Also on show, Kitchenwood and furniture by Ben Casson, Wildwicker baskets by Clyde Hoare, pots by Andrew & Clare McGarva and Sheila Herring, Jewellery by Clair Hodgson.

The Gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10am-5pm, up until Saturday 21st December 2020. BUY LOCAL, BUY HAND-MADE THIS CHRISTMAS! Please join us, the makers,  for a natter, some fresh tea or coffee and a home-made mince-pie.

Wobage Makers Gallery, Upton Bishop, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. HR9 7QP. 01989 780495.

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, via the following links:

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 in 2020!

Dear Wobage Mudslingers. Our seasson of Courses for the new year will be launched and available for booking towards the end of this month, November. Patia and I are busy assembling course structure and final details in order to make them live for you as soon as possible. In summary, dates and course titles are as follows:

Jug-Making – 3½ days, Jeremy – Mon.6th – Thurs. 9th July

Slip-decorating earthenware – 4 days, Patia – Thurs.16th – Sun.19th July

Teapots – 4½ days, Jeremy – Wed.22nd – Sun. 26th July

Clay Brainstorming – 3½ days, Jeremy – Thurs.30th July – Sunday 2nd August