Great pottery throwdown 2025

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Anyone watching?

Irish fella is smashing it again

Thank you @AlicePottery

I think hula Steven might end up going.

Steve & James are miles ahead of the others

I 100% preferred Steve's to James'

He is a bit out of his depth isn't he?

They are aren't they? Consistent too.

Im a little behind but I love the work of the guest potter

Steve & James are in a different class. Controversially, I don’t like the guest judge’s pots, the idea sounds good but I just don’t think the finished look is all that.

Surely poor Stephen has to be put out of his misery this week.

Oh wow, they're really not are they? DD has a bit of a thing for nice mugs from Artisan Potters. She loves her recent one from Glosters but these ones, although beautiful, might be a bit of a stretch...

I don't think it's controversial at all. We can't love every sort of pottery

They're expensive but I'm not surprised as she's built up quite a following. Making pottery is ridiculously expensive once you factor everything in, I worked out it costs me about 5€ to make a bog standard cup in my garage, that's without counting my time.

@HeadNorth me neither. It actually doesn't seem that skilful to me. But I'm not a potter and so I probably don't understand what's involved

I worked out it costs me about 5€ to make a bog standard cup in my garage, that's without counting my time.

Does that include firing?

DD had a go at pot throwing at Wedgwood and it turns out she's actually pretty good for a novice. She's just asked for a wheel...

We have some great pottery markets where I live, the average price for a cup is about 30€.
Online some potters I follow sell them for over 100€ (they sell out in seconds).

I don’t like the guests judges pots

me neither, but to be fair I think they are probably very marmite so can see than they would appeal to lots of people.

Agree poor Stephen has reached the end of the yellow pottery road.

I like the prefired matte look but not the finished thing, too shiny.

The contestants’ pots all look beautifully smooth!

I think Imi is going before Stephen

I can't watch the bit where they take them out in case they drop them

The sugar was great.

@AlicePottery was it coloured slip that the Potter was using? It's not cheap is it?

These are looking amazing except the one who took the pots out too soon (can't remember her name)

Has anyone ever dropped it. The woman with the lightbulbs. Is not going on her feet. I'm not either so I notice this.

She uses coloured porcelaine, some of the colours are very expensive, others are ok, it all depends on the ingredients, some oxides are ridiculously priced (the prices have more than tripled in the past 5 years). She adds gold luster on her stuff too, I asked for some for Xmas, at over 100€ for 2.5g I haven't even dared to use any yet 😅

I don't like Diane's