Carmarthenshire Archives - Nick Membery Pottery

Pots at Last

December 8, 2011 Posted by : Nick

Making pots at last it should have been. In truth it didn’t actually turn out quite like that. Indeed we were living within four stone walls and really it should have been time to move onto turning the former cowshed into my perfect pottery workshop. Finally knuckling down and throwing lots of pots. The reality though was somewhat different.

The workshop like the house had nice new doors and the leaking roof had been repaired. I must say it looked lovely from the outside. Inside though – fairly cavernous really, well you can see from the picture, kind of cow shed just without the cows.

The Next Chapter

November 18, 2011 Posted by : Nick

…Start from the beginning.

On arriving in Wales the realisation how mammoth the task at hand was soon took hold. The house had been neglected for decades and it seemed that I was becoming a builder. Had we moved to the country to become property developers? Of course not but our dilemma was we had images in our heads of country houses, with workshops and showrooms, but the reality was a derelict pile!

The best I could manage was a temporary workshop in the smallest and most weather tight shed. I also built a temporary kiln so production all be it on a scaled down level could take place. I made pots if I had orders and if not I worked on the house.

Where the Story of Waun Hir Pottery Begins

October 30, 2011 Posted by : Nick

On 9/9/99 I moved into a small Victorian Mews workshop in Brighton – for obvious reasons I don’t suppose I’ll ever forget the date.
My partner Sue and I, along with our first child moved from the big smoke to the little smoke by the sea – Brighton, having lived in London for nearly fifteen years.
Ever since leaving college in 1989 I had been an urban potter and rented a couple of large workshops shared with other artists. The first was in the then fairly run down Hoxton Square near Old Street and the later was a capacious space rented from the well known ceramicist Kate Malone about a mile north in Balls Pond Road.

Kitchen Pottery in Prince Charles’ Welsh Home

June 14, 2009 Posted by : Nick

The 18th Century former coach house and farm buildings at Llwynywermod near Myddfai, Carmarthenshire were purchased by the Duchy of Cornwall estate two years ago and have been beautifully renovated becoming the first Welsh home for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Carreg Cennen Castle

July 14, 2008 Posted by : Nick

In the Brecon Beacons National Park near Llandeilo, Carreg Cennen is one of the most spectacularly sited Welsh castles, crowning a remote crag 100 metres above the river Cennen.

At the bottom of the approach is a Café and craft shop which stocks Waun Hir Pottery’s work.