Try something new in 2024: We visit Flying Saucers pottery painting cafe!
At one of Bristol’s few pottery painting shops you can pick an item to paint with professional standard equipment, and have it sealed in their ovens before collecting your item. But what else makes this activity so unique?
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00:00 I feel like Bristol's known for being a creative space, I mean with its like
00:04 music scene and art scene and the fact that this kind of is art for everybody
00:09 you don't have to be like incredible at it you can just come here, chill out, paint
00:14 something and still be creative.
00:17 So we're at Flying Saucers and we're just off of the Clifton Triangle.
00:20 It's a pottery painting cafe where we serve drinks and you can come and do
00:24 something creative. We opened just over 15 years ago and there's a couple of
00:28 stores dotted around but this is the biggest one and when you come here you
00:32 can choose any of the pottery items and you get a two-hour session where you can
00:36 paint your pieces and you can keep them forever.
00:39 Okay so I am sat here on one of the studio setups in Flying Saucers and I'm
00:43 gonna try and paint a mug so I've picked this one first. I've gone onto Pinterest
00:48 and I've found a design that I quite like so I'm gonna attempt this but we'll
00:54 see how that goes.
00:56 I think it just gives people a break from their normal everyday
00:59 lives especially like more for older people for adults who haven't painted
01:04 before why would I spend my time doing that it's good to just switch off and do
01:08 something different.
01:09 This could be catastrophic or it might turn out quite nice
01:13 and I'm hoping if it does turn out nice I can give it as a gift to my grandma.
01:18 I am certainly no painter, I'm no Da Vinci, Van Gogh but it's actually not that
01:25 difficult so I feel like as somebody who does not have any painting skills this
01:35 might actually turn out giftable.
01:38 I just think it's a complete break I feel like as an
01:40 adult you don't really get many chances anymore to be creative like when I when
01:47 I first started here I thought I haven't done this since I was little so it's
01:52 just nice to go back to that and just have a break like a complete switch off
01:56 from it.
01:57 I think I might paint the handle.
01:59 Should I paint the handle?
02:01 Yeah I've done it now it's too late.
02:03 This is the kind of aim to make them look...
02:07 I feel like that looks like a peach or an orange.
02:13 An orangey peach.
02:15 People come in and go like oh this is I'm gonna be rubbish at this and then
02:20 they come up with the coolest designs.
02:23 You can do something really simple or something really
02:25 complicated it's completely up to you.
02:28 I have finished I... oh no.
02:31 As a clumsy human being this has really pushed my creative juices.
02:40 I have just smudged it.
02:42 If you come in the week you're gonna have a calm experience and just spend your
02:49 time painting and it's quite like a therapeutic thing to do.
02:52 If you come at the weekend it's a bit more of a bustling environment.
02:56 I have got paint absolutely everywhere.
02:58 But I think that that is a sign of a good painting session.