Flying Potter
Mobile Pottery Studio
Unable to visit our idyllic Herefordshire studio? No problem, the Flying Potter can come to you! All the Eastnor Pottery fun, creativity and passion delivered to a venue of your choice. A fantastic addition to any festival, celebration or outreach event.
Education & Community
Through skilful facilitation and a love of clay and people in equal measure, we travel all over the West Midlands and beyond exploring and developing creativity in others. We regularly work in early year’s settings, schools, libraries, art galleries and museums, encouraging people to play and express themselves in clay.
Festivals & Events
We have worked with so many organisations and partners providing innovative, accessible pottery sessions for all ages and abilities. Large numbers of participants (as many as 1000 a day!) and collaborative sculpture a speciality.
Read Our Reviews
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This was such a fun couple of hours, Sarah and Jon are so welcoming and Sarah’s mentoring skills were given with patience and explanation. A really enjoyable time.
Highly recommended even if you believe you aren’t creative as my partner does.
He made a great pot and enjoyed our time. Thank you Sarah & JonErica
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We had such a wonderful day at Eastnor Pottery learning how to throw pots. We had no prior experience, but Jon and Sarah soon put everyone at ease (we were a group of 8). It’s such a warm, cosy and friendly environment to explore some new creative skills. After some demonstrations and introductory guidance, we were soon sat at our individual wheels, trying out our first pots. Jon and Sarah and their helper Ellie were really helpful, answering questions, and offering advice as we tried to get the hang of things. You can go at your own pace, but most people managed to make around 10 pots. You can choose a few of your best attempts to be fired, and delivered to you a few weeks afterwards. We had a really friendly and fun day, highly recommended if you want to try something creative and new!
Howard Wright
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What a lovely weekend! I braved a solo trip for this course and felt welcome and part of the group from the outset. I’m looking forward to receiving my three finished pieces once they have been fired. All being well I have two useable mugs and a bowl to show for my weekend. For the weekend course each potter has their own wheel, a very generous amount of clay to work with (you’re not going to run out) and the perfect combination of instruction, demonstration, support and freedom to find what works for you. Up to the point of adding colour the clay is completely recyclable so you can afford to experiment and make mistakes. It’s great to see that resources aren’t being wasted.
Whilst I am generally quite crafty, I am not necessarily artistic and I’m definitely very heavy handed. Pottery did not come naturally to me and I definitely felt that I was significantly behind my fellow potters. Jon & Sarah and all of the other potters were supportive and encouraging. At the end of the weekend I lined up my finished pieces to take a photo before heading off, without everyone else’s work to compare against I suddenly had a real sense of achievement.
Definitely go on this course. Go with the intention of experiencing something new in a really friendly and supportive environment. If you can, don’t compare your work to everyone else’s. Perhaps you’ll be amazing at it, perhaps you’ll be terrible but have a good chuckle at your mistakes, you’ll probably reach a new found respect for the Pottery Showdown contestants either way!Ali M
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