The Great British Pottery Throwdown contestant opens new Scarbrough studio

Rebecca Norris, has just opened a fully equipped pottery studio.   Video by James Hardisty.

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00:00I'm Rebecca Norris and I'm the owner of The Clay Place, which is a pottery studio in Scarborough.

00:05I was on the Great Pottery Throwdown last year as a contestant and I've opened my pottery

00:11studio to allow other people to enjoy the wonderfulness that is clay.

00:16I was on the show last year, on the Great Pottery Throwdown last year, and I had an

00:21amazing time, met lots of wonderful people, had lots of experiments and lots of just great

00:27ideas to come away with and it really gave me a passion to come back and want to share

00:33that experience with other people in the community.

00:37So I started a pottery studio and now hold workshops and courses that allow other people

00:43to come and join in playing with clay.

00:46So The Clay Place is a fully equipped pottery studio with five pottery wheels, lots of tools,

00:53an extruder, a kiln, lots of shelves, lots of tools, and a slab roller, so lots of things

01:00that people can get really into clay with.

01:03So on the pottery wheel it can take a while to get the hang of, hand building is a lot

01:13easier in terms of getting the hang of it and also creatively you can get more out of

01:20hand building in my opinion, but having a go on the pottery wheel or hand building is

01:25really special.