Wobage pottery evening classes are now in their 5th year, their popularity creating a thriving, creative, productive and sociable community of makers on each of the three evenings. With priority of place offered to existing students, new places not often become available. Such a last minute opportunity arises here, for two students to join Josh’s new 10 week term, held on a Friday and beginning on Friday 28th January.

The course offers unlimited use of high quality clay, an electric potters wheel for each student and one to one tuition from a professional maker. The throwing studio is fully equipped and now very cosy indeed. Recent insulation upgrade to the building along with a new high efficiency wood-stove will ensure that you are warm at the wheel, even on the chilliest of winter evenings!

Our page on evening classes offers further details. For availability and booking, e-mail Josh now at: courses@joshredman.co.uk

Josh is offering secure payment through PayPal, or a cheque is also fine. The deposit of £50.00 secures your booking, the balance of £130.00 is payable on the first evening of term.

The Wobage course programme for 2011 is now live with some new additions promising to make for a busy and exciting Summer. Clive Bowen visits the 5 day jar-making course for two days of demonstration and tuition. Designer maker Tavs Jorgensen leads a plaster workshop with hot trade tips on profiling & sledging hump moulds. Josh Redman demonstrates his inimitable techniques in softly thrown sculptural pot-making on a new long weekend workshop suitable for all levels of ability. For full details, prices and availability, please browse our course pages.

Amateur potter and architect, Catherine Yeatman reviews the Wobage courses she attended in 2009.

“…there are salads with flowers in them, good company, a family of barn owls, home-made pizza in the wood-fired oven and by no means least there are, of course, the pots…..”

Click here to read the review in full

Patia has a last minute cancellation and therefore a place available on her Wednesday evening class. The 10 week Summer term covers all aspects of wheel-thrown earthenware, including slip-decoration and raw-glazing. Equally suitable for a beginner or a maker with more experience. You’ll find more information and contact details on the Evening classes page

We are now making final clarifications of dates and content for the programme of courses for next year. The 3-day beginners course will run in July rather than June. Jeremy’s Jug-making, also in July, will run for four rather than the 3 days this year. We are making some changes to the 7-day handbuilding/throwing and salt-glaze course for 2010. There will instead be a shorter making workshop aimed at more experienced potters with Nigel Lambert running the handbuilding studio. This will run in the first half of August. Jeremy will then run a 5 day firing course in September. Priority of place for this, a maximum of 6 students, will be offered to participants on previous courses during the Summer, enabling them to pack and wood-fire their own pots. This course will include tutorial in basic slip and glaze chemistry, delving more deeply into specifics of raw-glazing and  salt-firing. Many will be pleased to hear that Patia will be tutoring a follow-on to her successful new course of this year, ‘Slip-decorated earthenware’. We anticipate that all details and dates will be live on the site for the end of November.