(Our membership year runs from 1st October to 30th September)
Browse below to see What’s On! Our monthly meetings, from October to May, are held at Kings Langley Methodist Church Hall, WD4 8BR. We have an amazing line up of talented ceramicists for you.
Our dedicated committee aim to hold a variety of events throughout the year, including these monthly meetings for both members and non-members (for a small fee), as well as our usual social coffee mornings/afternoons and our annual exhibition and sale of ceramics at Kingsbury Barn in September.
This page is updated with our forthcoming events, which are also notified to members on our Chair’s email. If we hold any events on Zoom, links are notified to members in this way. Details of how to become a member can be found on our Memberships page, so sign up and join in!
We welcome new members in whatever capacity you choose – whether you want to watch our demonstrations or just join in the socials or both. You can also read about our many past events in our quarterly Newsletters – we have a significant archive.
You’ll find the schedule below and updates on our Facebook page and Instagram account. Events are FREE to members unless otherwise specified and some events are available to non-members. We welcome non-members to demonstrations, the entry fee for guests is £5, payable on the door.
Events 2025
- Saturday 11th October 2025, 9.30am (door open at 9) to 1 pm : Guild AGM followed by talk and demonstration by Roger Cockram, an artist/potter, living and working in North Devon. who makes a series of individual pieces in high temperature fine porcelain, with a background inspiration of the nearby sea and coast. He also makes a range of domestic kitchenware for use in the home.
- Sunday 19th October 2025 – 9.30 am to 5 pm Potters Open Day 2 –SCULPTING AND WORDS, a collaboration between poetry and ceramics: A day of pottery, poetry, sculpture and creativity, with Poet and Playwright Caroline Bird, Ceramic Sculptor Sharon Griffin, Slipware Potter Russell Kingston and Artist Charlotte Anstey. The event is live at the Trestle Theatre, St Albans, AL4 0JQ and on Zoom. Tickets for both options are available from Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/second-potters-open-day-2025-50th-anniversary-4385593.
- Friday 14th November 2025, 7 pm at Kings Langley Methodist Church Hall. Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Jeremy Nichols who makes make saltglazed domestic pots, which have been steadily evolving since he started experimenting with open handles as an alternative to the closed loops conventionally used in ceramics. His designs are also influenced by early interests in aviation and the precision of engineered objects, alongside a more recent interest in contemporary architecture with its varying approaches to the relationship between form and function.
- Friday 12th December 2025, 7 pm at Kings Langley Methodist Church Hall. Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Phil Jolley who builds with slabs layered with different clays and decorated surfaces, suggestive of what might have once been and archaeological finds and remains. He exploits the use of glazes and their action upon the various clays and stains, oxides and slips are crucial to the final result.
Events 2026
- Friday 9th January 2026, 7 pm at Kings Langley Methodist Church Hall. Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Katherine Kingdon who describes her work as “a celebration of ‘in the moment’ creative decisions and storytelling. I like to leave an element of ambiguity in the surface imagery. To suggest a narrative, but to leave enough space for the viewer to dream“
Past events 2025-2024-2023
- Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September 2025: Guild Annual Exhibition at Kingsbury Barn, St Albans.
- Friday 9th May, 7 pm at Kings Langley Methodist Church Hall
Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Bryony Applegate
- Friday 11th April 2025, Guild Meeting talk and demonstration by Jaroslav Hrustalenko.
- Friday 7th February 2025: Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by John Jelfs.
- Friday 10th January 2025:
Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Harriet Hellman
- Friday 13th December
Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Adam Keeling
- Friday 8th October 2024 AGM and announcement Fitzwilliam Prize winners followed by a talk and demonstration by Ian Byers
- Saturday 12th October 2024: talk and demonstration by Russell Collins
- Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September 2024
Guild Annual Exhibition at Kingsbury Barn. - September 13th 2024
Private View at DCPG Kingsbury Barn Exhibition, St Albans AL3 4SE - September 2nd 2024
Visit to H.G. Matthews Brickworks, Bellingham, Chesham HP5 2UR - July 9th 2024 Visit to Whichford Pottery, Shipton-on-Stour CV36 5PG
- Friday 10th May 2024 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Fay De Winter
- Friday 12th April 2024 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Tony Dix
- Friday 9th February 2024 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Miche Follano
- Friday 12th January 2024 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Mark Dally
- Friday 8th December 2023 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Gareth Mason
- Friday 10th November 2023 Guild Meeting with talk and demonstration by Peter White, Woburn Sands Clay
- Saturday 14th October 2023 Guild Meeting and AGM with talk and demonstration by Steve Woodhead
- Saturday 14th October2023 Guild Meeting and AGM with talk and demonstration by Steve Woodhead
A list of our previous Demonstrators can be found below
| Date | Speaker/s | Notes | POD |
| 12/05/2023 | Lucy Baxendale | ||
| 14/04/2023 | Peter Black | ||
| 19/03/2023 | Keith Brymer Jones | POD 2023 | |
| 19/03/2023 | Kay Aplin | POD 2023 | |
| 19/03/2023 | Sally Macdonell | POD 2023 | |
| 10/02/2023 | Mel Chambers | ||
| 13/01/2023 | Tom Knowles Jackson | ||
| 15/12/2022 | Rachel Wood | ||
| 09/12/2022 | John Masterton | ||
| 11/11/2022 | Fiona Booy | ||
| 03/07/2022 | Hamada – Leach Centenary celebration | ||
| 14/05/2022 | Richard Ballantyne & Carol Read | ||
| 26/03/2022 | Pie Bolton speaker coordinator for Jack Latti and Sandy Lockwood. | POD 2022 | |
| 26/03/2022 | Sabine Nemet | POD 2022 | |
| 26/03/2022 | Ben Brierley | POD 2022 | |
| 11/02/2022 | Paul Wearing | ||
| 14/01/2022 | Ben Fosker | ||
| 12/11/2021 | Craig Barclay FSA | Zoom lecture from UK: “The Secrets of Crusty Wearing”. | |
| 19/10/2021 | Kate Malone | Zoom from UK: Earth, Air, Fire, Water – Connecting clay with the elements. | |
| 08/10/2021 | Pie Bolton | Zoom demo due to Covid from Australia | |
| 11/09/2021 | Meg Patey | Zoom demo due to Covid from Australia | |
| 14/08/2021 | Jane Sawyer | Zoom demo due to Covid from Australia | |
| 10/07/2021 | Mary-Lou Pittard | Zoom demo due to Covid from Australia: ‘It’s A Family Affair’ with Mary-Lou, hubby Chris and daughter Jess | |
| 12/06/2021 | Jane Annois | Zoom demo due to Covid from Australia | |
| 14/05/2021 | Midori Takaki | Zoom lecture from UK | |
| 13/03/2021 | Conversation on Zoom with Ester Beck, Professor Vasu Reddy, Vidya Thirunarayan | Zoom. ‘Being Centred’ | POD 2021 |
| 13/03/2021 | Sasha Wardell | POD 2021 | |
| 13/03/2021 | Thomas Bhole & Mario | POD 2021 | |
| 13/02/2021 | Christine Pike | Zoom lecture from UK | |
| 11/12/2020 | Katherine Kingdon | Zoom lecture from UK | |
| 05/09/2020 | Hannah McAndrew and Doug Fitch | Zoom lecture from UK | |
| 14/08/2020 | Enrique Perez Albared | Zoom lecture from UK | |
| 12/06/2020 | Denis Di Luca | Zoom demo due to Covid, from Italy! | |
| 07/03/2020 | Stephen Dixon | POD 2020 | |
| 07/03/2020 | Wendy Lawrence | POD 2020 | |
| 07/03/2020 | Brendan Hesmondhalgh | POD 2020 | |
| 10/02/2020 | Margaret Gardiner | ||
| 07/02/2020 | Elaine Wells | ||
| 06/12/2019 | Ruthanne and David Tudball | ||
| 08/11/2019 | David Wright | ||
| 12/10/2019 | John Higgins |