Creative Fun Relaxing
The Village Pottery and Craft Centre is a family run business based in Shepperton and focussed on providing pottery services to the local community. We mainly run daytime and evening wet clay pottery classes where you can create your own items with hand building techniques or using our wheel. We also have a large number of ready-made ceramic items for you to choose from, including functional pieces for your home and personalised gifts for friends and family. You can decorate and glaze the ceramics yourself or you can ask us to produce the finished article for you. In addition we can provide gift vouchers, private sessions for adult and/or children's parties, special events or just getting together as a group of friends. We cater for all ages and abilities, and you are very welcome to come along and give it a try.
The aim of the centre is to provide a creative, fun and relaxing space for our pottery community, with on-hand advice, sharing of ideas, workshops and events. We are located at the lovely St Andrew’s Hall in Upper Halliford Green, Shepperton, in a nice quiet area with plenty of parking both at our car park and at the local parade of shops. Please see the Contact page for a map showing our location.
The Village Pottery and Craft Centre is a place to visit with friends, or on your own to meet likeminded people. We run regular groups and provide the following services:
Pottery Classes: termly tuition on developing wet clay techniques through specific projects.
Private Wet Clay Sessions: focussed on working with clay and learning techniques, either for building by hand or using the wheel.
Gift Vouchers for Private Wet Clay Sessions, which make a lovely gift for family and friends.
Parties, Events and Team Building: exclusive use of the studio for parties or other special events.
Mobile Studio: we can bring all materials to your venue and run a session at your convenience.
Projects and Commissions: we can produce bespoke pieces to your specification and also have experience of working on gardens.
Our Story
The idea for a community based pottery studio has come about though my passion for pottery and crafting, originating as a hobby but now evolving into a local business. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to purchase Halliford Village Pottery in 2017, which was an established pottery and ceramics studio at Grange Farm, Shepperton, although with limited sessions and customers. Since then we have invested in upgrading the facilities, services and opening times and after five years we have now moved to our own premises. I am very much enjoying meeting and working with the many new customers who are now visiting. The studio has a wonderful peaceful atmosphere and this creates a lovely environment for creativity and relaxation.
In 2022, we won the Spelthorne Business Plan of the Year Competition with a plan to launch our teaching services online via video-based tuition and home learning kits.
Please take a look at our Facebook page - The Village Pottery and Craft Centre (see link below) - for up to date news and a gallery of work completed by our customers.
I look forward to meeting you and to welcoming you to our lovely pottery studio.
Julie Sebastiano
Telephone: 07949 592255
E-mail: villagepotteryandcraft@gmail.com
Facebook: The Village Pottery and Craft Centre
The Village Pottery and Craft Centre is the trading name of Village Pottery Ltd