Activity – St. Ives Pottery

January 3, 2024January 21, 2024

New Year crafting resolutions for all.

New Year resolutions? Many people use the new year to set some new life goals and resolutions, if pottery is one of them for you or someone you know then we can help. Crafts can be used as a great escape from everyday life, something to keep your brain active, a new life skill or possibly a whole new direction in life. Wheel-throwing can often seem exclusive or something beyond reach but we believe it can be for anyone at any age.

Clay provides an involved haptic experience and a pottery wheel-throwing lesson makes you fully concentrate and become fully immersed in the spinning clay and the creation of a vessel. Most people say they lose themselves in the process and completely forget the world while they are throwing and achieve a state of mindfulness.

Our sessions are tailored for just you and whoever/ comes and as they are just for a single booking and whoever/ you bring you can be sure you will always get the right level of teaching and time on the potter’s-wheel, no sharing our potters guidance with many other people you don’t know or waiting for them to be finished helping others, they are all for you. So if you are looking for pottery lessons in Cornwall for a 2024 activity then we are an easy to reach studio for all of Cornwall.

February 16, 2019February 17, 2019

One Year of Lessons!

We have now been teaching people wheel-throwing for a whole year! Over 240 people, most of them having their first ever go on a potter’s wheel. It has been amazing fun and great meeting so many enthusiastic people of all ages, all of whom successfully created something. Today one of the very first people to have a go came in to see us to let us know she has carried on and is currently doing a pottery course, which made Angela’s day. It is lovely to have helped people start off on a ceramics journey that will keep making them happy, as well as getting more people doing crafts through the toyshop.

Very soon we will be offering longer and more advanced pottery courses as we expand. Thanks to a lot of hard work and help from Angela’s family and Cultivator we will have a kiln by the end of April, so expect lots of products from Angela and various new courses to get more people potting. Lots more to come…

September 12, 2018October 9, 2018

St. Ives September Festival

St. Ives is buzzing with the annual September Festival with venues all over town showcasing art and music. It’s a great time to explore St. Ives with galleries having special days and pop-up exhibitions as well as varied workshops for people to try.

The town is quieter than August, the weather is still mild and the beaches pretty empty. September also has some very high/low tides so the beaches are kept nice and fresh and plenty of beach to explore at low tide.

We stay open year-round so we still have drop in wheel-throwing pottery lessons available as normal.

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018

Summer Holidays

As the Summer holidays start, thoughts of beach days and fun activities begin filling people’s minds, and as always we are here to provide some clay fun.

Book a time slot with us or pop past for a drop in session on certain days. All ages are catered for and seeing all the different things people make is great. Individual workshops or groups are welcome; the groups can get quite competitive. And don’t forget we can do evenings as well to make sure anyone who wants to try their hand at being a St. Ives Potter has a chance.

A couple of the great creations made with added textures.

July 20, 2018April 12, 2019

Things to do in St. Ives in the rain

St. Ives is well known for its beaches and crystal clear sea but what is there to do if it rains? There is actually a lot to do year-round and in all weathers in St. Ives and here are some of our suggestions.

St. Ives Pottery – We offer wheel-throwing pottery experiences no matter what the weather, often drop-in lessons are available but please do let us know in advance if there is a certain day or time you would like.

Coco Kitchen – Fun chocolate-based workshops for all ages at www.cocokitchen.co.uk A great place to experiment with chocolate and it has a cafe at the front for anyone not taking part to relax and enjoy the many tasty treats they have on offer. Also great for wedding parties and staff nights out.

St. Ives Cinema – We LOVE our cinema, we see it as having character and a great community asset, friendly staff and brilliant it is still in St. Ives with such a declining population….some might see it as a little run down, the ticket prices are much cheaper than most places to reflect that. If you are of similar age to us you might even find it a bit nostalgic like going to the cinema in the 80’s. Please do support it where you can, on sunny days it will often be very quiet but rainy days it can be packed. Check out what they have on by clicking here.

Enjoy some food and drink – St. Ives is full of wonderful cafes, pubs and restaurants that are nice and cosy and one of our favourite things is to sit somewhere watching a good storm out of the window. The Albatross opposite us does our favourite chips, you can eat-in, and they even do ice cream for pudding!

May 27, 2018

May Half Term

For this Bank Holiday week and half-term we are open some extra hours. You can come in and have a pottery wheel-throwing experience Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Message us on here or pop in from 11am – 4pm and as usual if you would like a different time let us know and we are sure we can sort something out for you. We are closed from Friday 1st June then back to normal Tuesday 5th June.

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