Myles Happ
- Ceramics
- Pottery
Myles is a master potter having worked in the industry for over 35 years. Expect to see a year's worth of exciting experiments with glaze recipes. Workshops booked online.
Studio Details
Happs Pottery
749 Caves Road
Anniebrook
Opening Hours
- Sat 9 Sept10am - 4pm
- Sun 10 Sept10am - 4pm
- Mon 11 Sept10am - 4pm
- Tue 12 Sept10am - 4pm
- Wed 13 Sept10am - 4pm
- Thu 14 Sept10am - 4pm
- Fri 15 Sept10am - 4pm
- Sat 16 Sept10am - 4pm
- Sun 17 Sept10am - 4pm
- Mon 18 Sept10am - 4pm
- Tue 19 Sept10am - 4pm
- Wed 20 Sept10am - 4pm
- Thu 21 Sept10am - 4pm
- Fri 22 Sept10am - 4pm
- Sat 23 Sept10am - 4pm
- Sun 24 Sept10am - 4pm
From Dunsborough: 10kms along Caves Road – about 9 minutes, heading to Busselton. From Busselton: head to Dunsborough, see the Ramada Resort on the right, Flame Tree on the left; pass Chain Ave slow down and turn left in the driveway just before the 90km sign.
- Parking suitable for cars
- Parking suitable for buses
- Universal access
- Family friendly (suitable for children)
Pottery has been a part of me all of my life. As a child of the studio arts movement I grew up digging and preparing clay, making pottery and innocently absorbing a fairly technical education.
Fast forward 40 years and I am running a pottery and honey shop from my own home studio.
I’ve never been an exhibiting artist. My comfort zone is artisanal production pottery that we offer in reduction fired stoneware glazes. This makes my twenty five years of ceramic experience is both broad and limited. Raising a family with four children as a craftsman, has perhaps been a higher priority than the studio career. It has been a monumental journey and my comfort zone has been a well established range of decorations with limited time to allocate to new work.
Now, every day presents the opportunity to do whatever I want and I’m excited to be under the tuition of a master from one of the world’s great ceramic universities. I have been using the chemistry skills I enjoyed at school to understand the theory behind the minerals we use to make glazes. The happy accidents are no longer. Through rigorous recipes recording and application, hundreds of test tiles have been made.
When I share them with our small team of potters in the studio, there is a great sense of achievement in the slight nuances in colour or texture. It's very exciting to be working on crystalline glazes and new colours that work in both our gas or electric kilns. It even better to be sharing these with Jacquie, who has just started her journey with clay.
For Open Studios this year, I've been working on a range of larger vessels and vases. I love taking extra time at the end of the day to work on them.
We started doing lessons as a pirouette to production. Its a nice little foray into sharing skills with people of all ages, backgrounds and in combinations of groups. To enable a Mum some special assistance as Dad fires off at racing speed, and the kids are engaged, and everyone learns something. It's not just about the pottery, it's the connections that are made and the laughs that are had. What we offer is an experience, using hands and eyes, to create long lasting memories. It's often the young ones who say they want to come back and do it again.
PS If I'm not on site, I'll be doing my spring beekeeping. I've got to do this to keep them alive!
Events
Pottery Experience

I will be doing our Pottery Experiences each weekend of the Open Studios. I offer a 1.5 hour “Studio Pottery Experience” to those wanting to explore their creativity and ‘skills’ with clay. Yes, it really is as easy as it looks . . . no, it isn’t but why not test yourself and throw some clay on the wheel and learn the basics of making your own small and useful functional bowls? If you have made pottery before, I am happy to assist you to make something bigger! My team and I offer you the opportunity to have your pot fired and glazed and this is $25 per pot. It takes about 6 weeks to process. Playing with clay and its satisfying sensations is what the experience is all about and by the end you will be elbow deep in mud!
16 September 2023
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Book onlinePottery Experiences

I will be doing our Pottery Experiences each weekend of the Open Studios. I offer a 1.5 hour “Studio Pottery Experience” to those wanting to explore their creativity and ‘skills’ with clay. Yes, it really is as easy as it looks . . . no, it isn’t but why not test yourself and throw some clay on the wheel and learn the basics of making your own small and useful functional bowls? If you have made pottery before, I am happy to assist you to make something bigger! My team and I offer you the opportunity to have your pot fired and glazed and this is $25 per pot. It takes about 6 weeks to process. Playing with clay and its satisfying sensations is what the experience is all about and by the end you will be elbow deep in mud!
23 September 2023
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Book online