Beverley Bell-Hughes
phone: 01492 572575
email:
bevandterry@googlemail.com

North Wales Potters members can contact the web editor if they would like to advertise an event here. Give plenty of notice and send all relevant info via email .

Sunday July 6th 2008 at 6pm

Soda Kiln Building Event/
Talk and Slide Show ...... Not to be Missed!

Brookhouse Pottery, Denbigh

Phone: 01745 812805, David and Margaret Frith, for details

Stephen Tootell and Euan Craig are coming to Brookhouse Pottery to build a two-chamber, wood-fired Soda Kiln. (David and Margaret will also be running their summer school starting on 7th July.) Bring a pot to put in the kiln, or just come for the talk and slide show.

North Wales Potters are invited to come to a Talk and Slide Show about Mashiko, Japan to be given by Euan Craig ( http://euancraig.blogspot.com
or email: euan_the_potter@hotmail.com )
Steve Tootell ( http://www2.gol.com/users/tootell ), Head of Creative and Performing Arts at the International School of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, will also be present to help.

£4 NWP Members
£5 Non - Members

Please notify David and Margaret Frith at Brookhouse Pottery
( frith@brookhousepottery.co.uk ) or Bev Bell-Hughes
( bevandterry@googlemail.com ) if you want to attend this event so that space can be organised at the venue.

Sunday September 14th 2008 at 10.30am

Talk by Janet and Frank Hamer

Coleg Harlech, Harlech, Gwynedd, LL46 2PU

Janet and Frank have kindly agreed to give a talk and possibly a glaze-problem workshop for NWP members. They will also talk about South Wales Potters. They will give a pottery demonstration - birds, fishes and plates - and you can bring a pot to be looked at and talked about.

£8 for NWP members
£12 for non-members

There will be food available in the college canteen at the price of £7.60
for a cooked or buffet lunch. This will need to be booked in advance by the 8th of September. Alternatively, you can bring your own food and drinks if you want to.

Hopefully, Frank and Janet will bring copies of their well-known book for sale on the day.

Saturday 11th October 2008 at 1pm

North Wales Potters AGM

Craig y Don Community Centre, Queen's Road, Craig-y-Don, Llandudno

Saturday November 15th 2008

Kevin G Millward at Ruthin Craft Centre

10am for Coffee/Tea
10.30am - Demonstration Start Time

Kevin is a pot-throwing genius! Put this date in your diary - it's not to be missed. The new Ruthin Craft Centre has had a lot of money spent on it, it's bigger and better and you'll get a chance to see it and any new exhibitions that are on.

NWP Members £8
Non-Members   £12

Please bring a food contribution to share.

Saturday 14th June 2008 10a.m

Raku Event with Jaqui Atkin, C.P.A. member, and Neil Glendinnings.

Coleg Menai, Parc Menai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales

We will be able to raku pots as well as enjoy talks and demonstrations by artists Jaqui Atkin and Neil Glendinning.

North Wales Potters members:
£6 if you bring your own bisqued pot to raku
£8 bisqued pot provided - contact Bev for details: phone 01492 572575 or email bevandterry@googlemail.com
£12 for non-members - bisqued pot provided

Please bring your own food and drink for the day. Tea/coffee machine available. Free delivery service available for larger items, shelves etc.

GREAT NEWS! Top Pot Supplies are coming for the day, so you can get any of those things that you are short of or have run out of. You can order items to be collected at Coleg menai with no delivery charge.
Contact: Robin Wright, Top Pot Supplies, Celadon House, 8 Plough Lane, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 8BS.
Phone 01952 813203 or email robin@toppot.co.uk for brochure and prices.

Coleg Menai End of Year Show will be available for viewing throughout the college.

ClayArt Denbigh

Saturday 17 - Sunday 18th May 2008

An educational stand has been organised for the weekend. Please contact Sonja Moss- Dolega, NWP exhibitions person, if you would like to be involved and can offer any time over the weekend. Email sonjamoss-dolega@onetel.com Tel: 0151 327 2822

Tudor/Stuart Period Pottery
Kiln Building Workshop

19th and 20th May 2007

Grayhill Living History Site near Chepstow South Wales

A hands on workshop building a wood fired pottery kiln of the style used by Stuart and Tudor potters. Using techniques and materials used in the period you will learn how to build a kiln of this age. Construction methods and the theories behind its design and dimensions will be discussed and put into practice.

The course will be lead by a team of experienced potters who have built and fired such kilns successfully using traditional techniques. There will be chance through the day to discuss other styles of historic kiln and the evidence we have for them.

The workshop will take place at the beautiful Grayhill Living History site (recently featured on the T.V. programme Tales of the Greene Valley) which is dedicated to the investigation and portrayal of historical skills http://www.grayhill.org/index1.html.
The site is in an area of area of outstanding Natural Beauty, and has other reconstructed buildings and industrial archaeology projects on the site.

Camping is available on site or a B+B list can be provided on request. We ask that you bring a packed lunch for each day.

Cost: £50 including all materials and construction notes.

We hope to run a second workshop later on in the year to fire the kiln. Pieces to be fired will be most welcome subject to them fitting into the kiln.

Please contact Antony Witton anwitton@yahoo.co.uk (01727 861274) to book a place or for further details.

Showcase Exhibition

Y Capel
Llangollen
Denbighshire

North Wales Potters work will be showcased throughout the year at this popular arts and tourist venue.

The Feile Clai Project

The Féile Clai Project is a new and exciting partnership between The International Ceramics Festival Wales and Craft Potters Society of Ireland. It will create a new partnership in both regions for the promotion of Ceramic. Visit the web site by clicking on the title above; for information, the opportunity for New and Emerging Makers to display and sell their work in Aberystwyth Arts Centres Craft Gallery and more.

NWP CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION 2006

Wood n Things Gallery
Longbridge Street
Llanidloes
Powys
SY18 6EF

An event not to be missed. A good range of work by Bev Bell-Hughes, Terry Bell-Hughes, Linda Caswell, Willie Carter, Phil Mumford, Chris Purdy, Katie Scarlett Howard, Owen Thorpe.
Also lots to see and do in the town; thriving arts' community, superb alternative shops and Great Oak Cafe. Worth an afternoon visit!

September 12th September - 29th October 2006

NORTH BY NORTH WALES

Rufford Craft Centre
Rufford Country Park
Ollerton
Nottinghamshire
NG22 9DF

Rufford Craft Centre is delighted to bring together work produced by the membership of two of the country's most accomplished associations: The Northern Potters and North Wales Potters. North by North Wales explores the rich history and range of work produced by both groups in an absorbing three part exhibition.

10th September 2006
10.30 am start

North Wales Potters Master Class
With Jo Connell

The Dairy
Faynol Estate
Bangor

Jo maker or laminated clay ceramics will be demonstrating her work, presenting a slide show and talk.

This Master class is supported by The Arts Council of Wales.

For more information on the Vaynol Estate in North Wales follow the link - www.faenol.co.uk

10th & 11th June 2006
10.30 am start

Dragon Kiln Building Event

Wern Bach
Old Clynnog Road
Pont Llyfni
Gwynedd
LL54 5EE

A two day hands on event. Camping, making pots, dragons eggs, and building and firing a dragon kiln.

For map to Wern Bach click here

Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st, May 2006

NWP and The Potters Gallery
At CLAYART

The Old Coachhouse
Llanrhaeadr Hall
nr. Denbigh
North Wales

Lots to see and do. For more information on the this annual event follow the link - www.clayart.org.uk

5th February 2006
10.30 am

Katie Scarlett Howard

The Community Centre
Queens Road
Craig y Don
Llandudno

A slide show and demonstration by Katie followed by hands on session - an afternoon of fun making your own figure, with katie on hand to help and advise. To see images of Katies work and find out how the day went go to Claywork online.

September 2005

Pit and Raku Firing

This event was held at Trefriew near Betws y coed. Click the title to find out more.

June 2005

NWP at Booth House

Booth house
Holmforth
Yorkshire

Jim Robison celebrated thirty years at Booth House with an exhibition of work by North Wales Potters. To see more about Jim Robison, his work and the gallery visit www.boothhousegallery.co.uk