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. 

Thanks everyone for your patience! Patia, Belle, Petra and Jem are busy date crunching and finalising details for our Summer school season next year.

Individual courses will be live for you to browse on Friday 12th December and available for booking on the evening of Sunday 14th December at 7pm. Apologies it’s a little later than usual. In between Friday and Sunday, each of the six courses will read ‘Out of Stock’. 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.

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.