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Pottery - 5 day throwing course with Sabine Nemet.

Sunday 10 August 2025 17:00
Friday 15 August 2025 14:00

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A practice-based stoneware pottery throwing course aimed at intermediate potters who would like expand and develop their throwing skill - an opportunity to learn new skills and brush up on essential techniques working with master potter Sabine Nemet.

The forms that you will make are all based on the range of pots that Sabine produces and has a long experience of making. Sabine completed an apprenticeship as a thrower in East Germany in 1998 with Hans Joachim Grünert in Waldenburg (Sachsen) where she underwent a three year thorough training in producing domestic ware exclusively on the potter’s wheel after which she was introduced to wood firing. In 2000 Sabine travelled to England to gain more experience in ceramics and met Nic Collins and moved to Moretonhamstead in Devon.

Sabine’s pots are mainly thrown, sometimes altered, cut and put together again. Sabine makes small series of mugs, jugs, lidded jars, bowls and much more. As decoration, she use stamps, made from carved porcelain. The shapes on the stamps are based on nature, seeds leaf pattern, flowers, which are then pressed into the clay repeatedly. When the clay is completely dry, the imprint is filled with different coloured glazes and then sometimes glazed over again.

Please do note that this course is a throwing course, rather than a throwing and wood firing course. You will be working with the Coombe in house throwing clay by Earthstone (ES/5). At the end of the course you will have the choice of taking your work home as greenware for you to glaze and fire at home or to leave at Coombe and make a selection of glazes based on our in-house glazes. We will then bisque fire, glaze and fire you pots for you and they will then ether be available to collect or we shall arrange a courier. The charge for glazing and firing work is £5 per kilo to include clay, glazes and firings.

**EXPERIENCE LEVEL**: This course is designed for anyone with some throwing experience on the wheel who wants to further develop their skills and experiment with altered forms.
**OUTLINE SCHEDULE:** Sunday // 5-7pm Residents arrive 7pm non residents arrive followed by welcome drinks 8pm dinner
Monday-Thursday // Breakfast for residents 8.30am, tuition starts at 9,30am for all. 1pm Lunch, tuition resumes 2-5pm.
Friday // Breakfast for residents 8.30am, final tuition session runs 9.30am-1pm followed by final lunch 1-2pm

**ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS:** Residential and non-residential spaces available. NB residents are not required to share bedrooms, see accommodation for more info.
**COST**: £821 + VAT for residential which covers all your tuition, accommodation and food from arrival on Sunday through to departure after lunch on Friday. Non-residential fees are £593 + VAT include all tuition, welcome drinks on Sunday and lunch from Mon-Friday.

**MATERIALS** All the tools and materials are provided although please feel free to bring your own tools with you if you wish. We will use Stoneware clay and any work you wish to keep at the end of the course for us to fire and glaze will be charged at £5 per kilo to cover the cost of clay, glazes and firings [NB a large mug would cost approx £1.60]
**HOW TO GET HERE:** Our address is TQ6 0JA [What3words: What3words: fulfilled.exploring.branching] and we have plenty of free onsite parking. Trains > nearest station is Totnes then we can arrange lift shares or send taxi details. We are about 20 minutes from the station.

**HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE COURSE?** Max 8 people to allow for Sabine to give everyone time and attention.
**FOOD & DRINK:** Food is a key part of an immersive course at Coombe. Meals are taken at a long shared table with the other participants either inside in the cooler months or outside in our courtyard when the weather is warmer. Our onsite chef caters for you including all/any dietary requirements. We grow our own vegetables and keep chickens for fresh eggs daily. For those that enjoy wine, we have a fantastic wine merchant who supply us with a small range available to buy onsite.

SEASON

Summer at Coombe is a glorious time, the veg patch is producing lots of fresh herbs and vegetables, with the warmer weather we can have lunches outside in the courtyard and dry pots in the sun and take evening walks to the nearby woods or down to the River.