The Pottery, Brickfields, Compton near Guildford, Surrey GU3 1HZ
Telephone: 01483 414097

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
                       Saturday & Sunday 2.00 - 5.00pm

Mary Wondrausch is a potter whose primary interest in continental peasant art over the last twenty years has developed into an overwhelming passion for the English XVIth century tradition of slipware pottery. All the work here is thrown on the wheel in Fremington clay and slipped with Bideford pipe clay. Using nine different slip-trailers of her own design she trails with oxide stained natural clays at the leather stage; it is then bisque fired 980 C and glazed at a temperature of 1040C. Great attention is paid to fine detail as most of the work is individually commissioned commemorative plates to celebrate every sort of occasion.

As well as personal orders, traditional pots such as pitchers are made - many of them being lettered with the old potters sayings. There is also much new and exciting work with the emphasis on blue and dark green background colours.

The Pottery is situated in a beautiful corner of Surrey and is surrounded by an acre of unusual gardens, punctuated by unusual sculptures and fountains.