Melanie Made Mud runs from a home studio at Ash Tree Cottage on Llanelly Hill above Abergavenny, set up by Melanie after she moved to South Wales in 2021. A qualified adult-learning tutor, she teaches wheel-throwing and hand-building to beginners, couples and small groups of up to five, working one-to-one where numbers allow. The taster session runs two hours and covers centring clay and throwing four basic pots and bowls, which are fired and ready for collection about four weeks later. A longer three-week course adds carving, handles and glazing across three weekly sessions of two and a half hours each. Limited parking at the cottage keeps class sizes small by necessity rather than design, and children from age eight can join with a supervising adult. Bookings run through the studio's own website rather than a marketplace listing.
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