About Pottery Embassy
Pottery Embassy is a calm, welcoming mobile pottery experience in Blenheim, bringing clay workshops into community spaces, homes, and local venues.
We believe working with clay can be grounding, restorative, and deeply rewarding. Our sessions are designed to offer a relaxed and supportive environment where people of all experience levels can slow down, get creative, and enjoy the simple pleasure of making with their hands.
Our aim is to create ceramics experiences that prioritise enjoyment over perfection, where the process matters just as much as the finished piece. Through small-group workshops, pop-up events, and guided sessions, we invite people to reconnect with their creativity, learn new skills, and share meaningful moments with others.
As a mobile service, Pottery Embassy is flexible and accessible, bringing pottery directly to where people feel most comfortable. Whether it’s a private gathering, community event, or small workshop, we create spaces that are welcoming, unhurried, and easy to take part in.
At its heart, Pottery Embassy exists to build a kind and inclusive clay community across Blenheim and the wider Marlborough region, where creativity, connection, and the joy of making are at the centre of everything we do.
Here is my story
Hello, I’m Yasi/Yasmin. My journey with clay began in the quiet corners of childhood, shaped by the ancient curves of moon jars that once held my grandmother’s rice wine. Those vessels, steeped in memory and ritual, whispered stories of lineage and love, and in their presence, I found my first teachers.
Since then, clay has led me across continents. From the mist-veiled studios of Dublin to the fiery kilns and perfection of Osaka, the vibrant streets of Delhi and Bangalore, the quiet precision of Singapore, the sunlit spaces of California, and the raw, grounding energy of Christchurch, each place has left its rhythm in my hands, shaping not only my craft, but my voice.
In 2015, I rooted myself in Aotearoa. Here, I began weaving my heritage into form, melding ancestral echoes with quiet, contemporary restraint. I built my studio from the ground up in Christchurch and shared my practice through teaching, nurturing others as clay once nurtured me. My studio was once called Botpots Christchurch/Pottery Capital. By November 2024, I handed that space over to a former student and his mother, turning toward a new beginning.
Due to the remote location of St Arnaud, Pottery Embassy currently operates through mobile pottery workshops across the region, bringing clay experiences to communities where access to creative spaces is limited. Alongside this, there is a long-term hope to one day establish a permanent studio.. a welcoming, grounded place where people can gather, make, and feel held by the process of working with clay.
