12th August 2025

Herefordshire Art Week at Eastnor Pottery

Just under a month to go until artists and makers all over the county open their doors for Herefordshire Art Week 2025. This marvellous Open Studios event takes place 6 – 14 September and involves 428 artists exhibiting in 138 venues.

eastnor pottery founders and artists sarah monk and jon williams outside the open front door of the studio

We’re proud to be taking part again

Although we are renowned for our fantastic potter’s wheel classes and courses, Herefordshire Art Week or H.Art as it’s more commonly known, offers us the opportunity to promote our own work.

Sarah Monk Ceramics

Ceramic artist Sarah Monk sat by a window, at her work table at Eastnor Pottery. Sarah has blond hair with a side plait, she is wearing pink glasses and smiling down out the pottery flower brick she is currently making. Sarah Monk is smiling slightly but is looking down, involved in the work she is doing. Sarah is surrounded by her finished pots. They are very colourful; greens, yellows, whites and blues. Many of the pots have fresh flowers in them. On the table there are 4 small jars of paint, some rolled out terracotta clay on a board, pieces of card, a pot of brushhes and a jar of water. The piece of pottery Sarah is working on is rectangular in shape and painted yellow, she is etching flowers on to the surface. The piece of pottery has been placed on a banding wheel.

Sarah will be exhibiting her playful slipware inspired by nature, ceramic history and the softness of clay.

Cups and bowls are wheel thrown. Flower bricks and press-moulded plates are constructed from soft slabs of terracotta clay. Slips and colourful underglazes are brushed and splattered on the surface building layers of decoration and colour. Sgraffito flowers and abstract motifs are freely etched into the clay, making pieces pleasingly tactile. In a nutshell – she makes little pieces of art for the home, to use and cherish.

Jon Williams Studio Pottery

jon williams from eastnor pottery smiling and making a pot on the potter's wheel

Jon will be showing his interactive and decorative one offs constructed entirely from sections made on the potter’s wheel. Some pieces are intended to live outside, others are designed to be handled, shaken, tapped or submersed in water.

If there was a common thread through both Sarah and Jon’s ceramics it would be the notion of playfulness, both in creation and fired outcome.

small bug eyed bug rattle made by artist potter jon williams. it is mostly cream with terracotta antanae and terracotta bulging eyes. photographed on a black slate background

H.Art opening hours

We’re open 11am and 5pm throughout the week – come join us for a complementary cuppa and peruse our pots.

Special Introduction to the Potter’s Wheel Classes

Each morning at 11am, we’ll be running one of our very popular and entertaining Introduction to the Potter’s Wheel Classes. If you are interested in booking please select the BOOK NOW button:

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