Latest Blog Posts & Helpful Guides
99% of our customers are absolute gems. The other 1%… well, let’s just say they keep life interesting! A cheerful little read about studio life, refund policies, and the occasional emergency biscuit.
Is There Something in the Water? Notes from the Clay Bench Let’s start with the most important thing: we *love* our clients. Truly. Without them, Cheshire Clay Studios would just be a quiet room full of wheels wondering where everyone’s gone. The vast, vast majority...
How fantastic was that?
We knew September 2025 would be a busy month for the Cheshire Clay Studios and we were not wrong. After expanding our space to accommodate more members we sent out an email to our wait list fully expecting one or two to be able to take up the studio membership scheme....
Summertime and the living is ……easy?!
We close Cheshire Clay Studios for two weeks at the beginning of August. We go mad, indulge ourselves and see our families on holiday for one of those two weeks (lovely time, thank you). However, the second week of ‘holiday’ is spent frantically refreshing one of the...
But I’m not Creative!
There’s no point in arguing with the hundreds of people who laugh nervously and shy away from our doors saying – “Oooh, I’m not artistic”, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body” or “I was always useless at art in school”. No, we can’t argue with them, as that is...
There’s no smoke without fire – and there was lots of both on our Raku day!
We were lucky enough to have Andy Mason come to deliver a Raku workshop for us in early March. We spruced up our outside firing area with a lovely ‘Murial’ (if you are old enough and a Corrie fan you’ll get this reference!) which our technician Alex designed and...
Wishes for 2025
As most of us wish, we would like 2025 to be the year where there is an end to conflict both at home and abroad, and for people to feel safe wherever they live. However, these sentiments are outside of our gift, so we must concentrate on what is possible for a...
Decorative Materials for Ceramics
In this step by step guide, we take you through the 3 stages of clay and the decorative glazes and materials available and most appropriate for each stage of ceramics.
Home Smoke Firing
In this step by step guide, we take you through the equipment, materials and process you need to do your own home smoked firing.
8 point Throwing Plan
This step by step guide takes you through our 8 point plan for you to do your own home throwing.