Alex Allpress Pottery

We are a pottery studio, salesroom and School: We sell our 100% handmade in Wales mugs, jugs, bowls and platters aswell as artwork. We also run courses.

Alex Allpress Ceramics / Pottery Studio
The Lion House
Newbridge on Wye, LD1 6LN, Mid Wales, Powys

Potter’s Wheel Day or Weekend Workshops
Spend a relaxing day or weekend making pots on the potter’s wheel. - techniques based upon the potters wheel including: throwing, turning, attaching handles & motifs and decorating methods using under-glaze and coloured slip.

Potter’s Wheel Day or Weekend Workshops
Spend a relaxing day or weekend making pots on the potter’s wheel.

Small friendly groups and seven electric potter‟s wheels ensure plenty of individual attention and guidance. You will explore a whole range of making techniques based upon the potters wheel including: throwing, turning, attaching handles & motifs and decorating methods using under-glaze and coloured slip.

Content

Day 1

The workshop starts at 10am. After tea /coffee, introductions and initial demonstration you will be taken as a group, step by step, through the pot throwing process. Once you have got the hang of things, you will be encouraged to develop at your own pace with individual tutoring as and when required. Around 1pm, a light lunch consisting of bread, cheese, salad and fruit is served. In the afternoon there will be further demonstrations after which you will work larger lumps of clay, make bigger pots and explore different shapes and forms. At the end of the day and once the wheels have been cleaned, you will select 1 or 2 of your best pots to be left at the Pottery for firing and glazing. The remaining wet pots can either be re-claimed or taken away on the day at cost.

If you are participating in the weekend workshop, the results of your labour from day one will be left to dry overnight.

Day 2

Your pots from Saturday are now “leather-hard‟ and ready to be turned. After a demonstration you will learn how to throw foot-rings, add handles and other motifs. Colour can be added at this stage using an exciting range of coloured under-glazes and decorating slips. Following lunch participants choose from the range of demonstrated techniques to finish 3-5 pots (dependant on weight) to be left for firing and glazing. The workshop concludes with a brief review of each others achievements and creativity. The weekend ends at 5pm.

Your fabulous creations will be left with us to dry thoroughly before they go into the kiln. Once they have been fired and glazed, we‟ll carefully wrap and dispatch your finished pots to your home address. You will be delighted at the professional results when they arrive on your doorstep approximately one month later.

Cost: £85 a day £155 weekend. Includes refreshments, lunch, all materials, firing, glazing and the cost of posting your finished masterpieces.
Other Dates: 22nd & 23rd March 2014 and Day Courses: 22nd Feb, 23rd Feb, 8th March, 9th March aswell as the 8th and 9th Feb 2014

Pretty Elan Valley Village Location in Mid Wales.
Friendly Family Studio
Over 10 years teaching experience
Your Own Wheel.
FREE refreshments all day.
Area of great natural beauty and 2 min walk from Wye River.