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Celebrating 40 years of The Prince's Youth Business Trust Jon Williams and Sarah Monk Throwing Together Circa 1995

A heartfelt congratulations to The Princes Trust as it celebrates 40 years of helping disadvantaged young people in a myriad of different ways.

When Sarah and myself graduated in 1992 we were given tremendous support and financial assistance to help kick start our businesses.

A generous setting-up grant from The Princes Youth Business Trust enabled us to purchase a brand new kiln and a couple of Shimpo potter’s wheels at a time when we had very little resources. In fact, we would never have been able to make the kind of impact we did at such an early point in our careers without the help of the Trust.

Thank you HRH, we are big fans!

Calling all workshop participants

Fantastic Plate made at Eastnor Pottery Fantastic Thrown Masterpiece by customer at Eastnor Pottery Careful hands on the potter's wheel at Eastnor Pottery

The BBC have commissioned a second series of the ever popular Great British Pottery Throwdown … Hurrah!

Group Shot of Great Pottery Throw Down Judges and Participants

As a result, they are currently scouring the country for new contestants. Do you think you have what it takes to make Keith cry? ;)

Over the past 20 years we’ve welcomed literally tens of thousands of clay enthusiasts and workshop participants through the door – surely one or two of you lovely potters fancy a bit of prime time TV coverage?! – Go on – what have you got to loose?

Applications can be downloaded here.

painted clay pots made on the potter's wheel by a beginner                 Beautifully Thrown and Decorated Pot made by Eastnor Pottery Customer

Potter in print

 

Jon Williams the Flying Potter from Eastnor Pottery in Images of Creative Herefordshire book

Jon the Potter features in a new book called “Images of Creative Herefordshire: its Artists, Craftspeople and Musicians at Work” by Malcolm Scott.

Malcolm spent time with all the featured artists, capturing the essence of their practice in a single black & white photograph. The prints are accompanyed by text, describing what living and working in Herefordshire means to each artist.

The paperback book is published by Logaston Press and retails at £10. if you would like to purcase a copy then please email  logastonpress@phonecoop.coop

Images of Creative Herefordshire Book featuring Jon Williams from Eastnor Pottery

 

Bromsberrow daffodils

Eastnor Pottery leading clay workshop making daffodils in Bromsberrow

We continue to be involved in The Moment Centenary Project, enabling members of the public to contribute to a field of pottery daffodils.

Sarah set up a mobile pottery studio in Bromsberrow Village Shop a few weeks back and spent a busy morning helping local residents make their blooms.

The Moment Centenary Project is aiming to celebrate the history of the area during the years 1914 to 1918 and would love to hear family memories of that time, collate a history of local events and people and gather them together.

As a part of this, the daffodil project was created to remember those who lost their lives in WW1 and to celebrate the heritage of our area.

The daffodils will be displayed on two dates in March – on Saturday, 19th March at Kempley (at the church or by the memorial on Kempley Green), and on Saturday, 26th March at Dymock on Wintours Green.  This area has always been famed for its daffodils and what better way for us to create our own field.  Please come along and see the memorial display.

for further information about the project contact: info@themoment.press or telephone 01531 890385

 

Creative writing morning

Logo of Creative Writing Coach Business StorySpace

Our small but perfectly formed team headed to Leominster in January for a spot of CPD with storyteller and writer Carol Graham.

She put together a morning of literary activities and exercises designed to develop and explore our creative writing skills. We all thoroughly enjoyed our time with Carol and my personal favourite with reference to the editing process:

‘Words are like clay, you can add to them or take them away to create an effect’

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