Christmas Exhibition

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Pit Fire Pots

Thanks Liz for sharing pictures of your pots from the pit fire.  They look amazing, especially the red flashes, bet your pleased with the results! If anyone else has pictures of their pots from the pit fire that they would like to share, please send them to me, it would be great to see everyone’s [...]

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Caravan For Sale

Stuart Williamson has a caravan for sale, please contact him directly if you are interested. Lunar Clubman 475CK 2001 Good condition many extras including awning full fitted cover and mover. £5000 Phone 01252 703171 Shackleford W.Surrey

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Farnham Public Arts Trust – Pottery Talk – 8th October

FARNHAM PUBLIC ART TRUST ANNUAL OPEN MEETING Saturday 8th October 2011, 10.30 for 11 am at the Garden Gallery, Museum of Farnham   Speakers:  Sue Farrow, Guy Hains, Ashley Howard, and Julia Quigley on “Saving the Farnham Pottery” The topic for this year’s Farnham Public Art Trust Open Meeting on Saturday 8th October will be [...]

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‘There’s no pit fire…..without smoke’

Thanks Liz for these pictures of Kathy (Thursday & Friday morning tutor) enjoying the pit firing experience last week.  We should run a caption competition…..  

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Pit Firing Birthday Celebration

WSP members celebrated Sue Broadhead’s 70th birthday with a pit firing in her garden.  Bisque pots were wrapped in copper wire, tea bags, seaweed, banana skins, leather and salt soaked pants!! Pots were packed into the large pit amongst sawdust and straw, which was then lit……stand well back or else you will get your eye [...]

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Missing Bats

There is a shortage of bats in the workshop, especially the round ones for throwing.  John Cressey kindly made quite a number for us last year, but they all seem to have disappeared. Please can you take a look at home or your car and see if you have used them to take your work [...]

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Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone to the Autumn Term, and hello to our new members.  Hope you all had a good summer. Sorry it’s a bit late, but a BIG thank you to everyone who helped with the clear out prior to the deep clean.  I’m sure when you arrive in the workshop this week for beginning [...]

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Heritage Weekend Success

Record sales at the pot shop last weekend, a real success, so thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to make it happen. The pottery enjoyed large numbers of vistors over the weekend, who saw demonstrations by WSP and a sale of WSP work.  They were also able to find out more about Farnham [...]

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WSP Christmas Exhibition

Several members have suggested WSP hold a Christmas Exhibition this year (as done in previous years), which is a great idea.  It will require volunteers to take on elements of the organisation to make it a success. Keith has already agreed to transport the Exhibition tables / plinths and Nigel, Shirley, Vron and Tineka from [...]

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