We’re very excited by our line-up of guest demonstration for 2014. We welcome Hermann Peterson all the way from the North Friesian Island of Pellworm, North Germany, for an all new ‘Improvers’ course. A master of our contemporary studio pottery generation, Professor Walter Keeler returns for 2 days of demonstration and tutorial during the ‘Jug-Making’ course. Finally, Jane Bowen makes her first appearance on the Wobage teaching programme, alongside Patia on the ‘Earthenware Throwing and Slip-Decoration’ course. The courses are already booking out fast with only one or two places left on some. So be quick and catch our ‘Early-Bird’  booking offer before the end of January.

For the 2014 season, we are once more offering a 5% discount on bookings made before January 31st 2014. In addition, you’ll get a £15 pot voucher to spend on a pot made by one of the tutors teaching on the course that you have booked on. Our course prices are unchanged from last year, our aim with this Early Bird incentive being to attract swift bookings and full courses in order to cut expensive advertising, and thus keep our prices competitive.

It’s an exciting season ahead with an esteemed line-up of guest demonstration. We are all looking forward to the summer and to hearing from you soon!

(image – Jill’s birds for Nic & Kath, detail of celebratory charger on Slip decoration course 2013)

Our summer 2014 programme is close to launch, full dates and details for which will be available for viewing online within the next two or three weeks. New to the season will be a repetition production course ‘From Egg Cups To Breadcrocks’, Earthenware Throwing Improvers guesting Jane Bowen and the re-introduction of a firing course where students will be invited to help wood-fire our new mini-Phoenix kiln. Please subscribe to our online mailing list if you haven’t already, and you’ll hear from us just as soon as everything is live and available for ‘Early-Bird’ booking.

Any places still available on our Summer course programme are booking out fast, so to guarantee a place on your course of choice, you’ll need to be quick. Please note on individual pages that some courses are already full and others just have one space available. We are looking forward to an exciting season, with several guest demonstrators new to the Wobage programme, including Nic Collins and Antje Ernestus.

We have just one space still available for our Tuesday evening class, beginning April 16th for 10 weeks. Places for these popular courses are highly sought after. Existing students are offered priority of place for future terms, so new places seldom arise. Snap it up quick! For further details and term dates, please view our Evening class page.

Here’s looking forward to the warmth and sunlight of longer days, and to our exciting course programme for 2013. Our apologies for the rather sluggish launch of the new season’s programme towards the end of last year. I’m sorry that we didn’t post up the regular pre-Christmas newsletter to let everyone know. Finally though, here we are, and we’ve extended our ‘Early-bird’ 5% discount for bookings made before January 31st. Advertising being such a major cost for us each year, this offer is aimed as an incentive to any waverers thinking about booking, and with the longer view of helping us to keep our costs down and the course prices as low as we can. It’s a very exciting line-up of guest demonstration, we hope there’s something to tempt you to Wobage in 2013!

Here’s wishing you all a very Happy New Year! From Jeremy, Patia and Ana.

We’ve had two late cancellations for our sought-after Tuesday and Wednesday evening classes, and therefore, we are able to offer part-term availability for a new student to join each class. There are a limited 8 places available on each course, and with existing students being offered priority of place for subsequent terms, new places arise infrequently. You’ll find further details on the evening classes here. Remaining term dates for Tuesday’s class follow. For Patia’s term dates, please contact her individually via the evening class page. Sorry for the terrible quality of pic’ above. It’s a phone snapshot taken by a mud’n’water luddite, but at least it’s authentic!…from Tuesday evening tea-break, delicious home-made lemon drizzle cake, and some tasty thrown and altered dishes mid-process in the foreground.

Tuesday evenings:

Week 3 –  22nd Jan.

Week 4 – 29th Jan.

Week 5 – 5th Feb.

no class 12th Feb. (Monmouthshire & Gloucestershire Half Term)

no class 19th Feb. (Herefordshire & Worcestershire Half Term)

Week 6 – 26th Feb.

Week 7 – 5th March

Week 8 – 12th March

Week 9 – 19th March

Week 10 – 26th March

For the 2013 season, now live, we are offering a 5% discount on bookings made before December 31st 2012. In addition, you’ll get a £15 pot voucher to spend on a pot made by one of the tutors teaching on the course that you have booked on.

We have a new evening class beginning in September, and a new tutor Ana Simmons, recently graduated with a first class BA(Hons) in Ceramics from Cardiff. Ana joins Wobage very shortly, where she plans to continue with her range of reduction fired porcelain and to begin teaching on the course programme. This 10 week course in wheel throwing begins on 18th September and is perfect for those with some previous experience with clay, or for complete beginners. For further details on the course, please add your details to the availability check via Booking, from which point we will forward further details along with a booking form. Your place is secured upon receipt of the form and a deposit cheque. Already there are only a few places left, so book now to avoid disappointment.

The summer courses season at Wobage is drawing to a close, with our final 5 day course beginning this coming Wednesday 22nd August. We still have a couple of places available and it’s still not too late to book! The course is suited to those with some previous experience in wheel-throwing and  includes visiting demonstration from Nigel Lambert. Nigel will cover throwing, altering and articulating jug forms; squares and oval. Also applied hand-built lips from templates. Further demonstration from Jeremy will include basic good practice to improve throwing techniques, the use of throwing ribs and bellying out rounder forms. We shall also experiment with lidded jugs: coffee pots & soup or hot-milk jugs. Oh and not forgetting a party evening on Friday with wood-fired pizza’s from the outside oven. For further details, please view the individual course page, or to check on current availability go to booking