Inluto Ceramics

Inluto runs pottery classes from The Bothy, a converted outbuilding on the grounds of Basing House, in partnership with the Hampshire Cultural Trust that manages the site. Tutor Sarah Podbury, a member of the Craft Potters Association, teaches wheel-throwing, hand-building and glazing to small groups, with four-week courses for beginners and returners running on Thursday and Friday mornings, plus Saturday workshops focused on coloured clay. Students work within sight of the ruined walls of what was once the largest private house in Tudor England, destroyed in a Civil War siege. Class sizes stay deliberately small, and Podbury runs the studio alone rather than as part of a franchise or larger craft-centre chain, giving each session a hands-on, one-to-one feel.