Club president Carl Merten said potters in the group range in experience and many members are involved as a way to unwind from life’s stresses.

“This exhibition is just to showcase the sort of work that we’re doing at the pottery club and maybe also to attract new members,” he said. 

“We’ve got two kilns now which are fully operational and six pottery wheels so there’s plenty of scope for people to come down and relax with potting. In this day and age when we’re all working harder, it’s good to relax and I think that anything creative in particularly the ceramics field is a relaxing thing to do.

“You don’t have to be an expert or anything like that, you can just sort of sit down and feel the clay working under your fingers and it’s a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.”

Six potters from the club will each have five works on display for the exhibition, which will run from Saturday until December 7. 

The works by Carl Merten, Angela Lyons, Elizabeth Ley, Joan Relke, Rhonda Stachiw and Rachel Waugh range from the functional to the decorative. 

The club, established in the early 1970s, currently boasts 15 financial members.

Merten said the exhibitors are some of the more devoted members of the club. 

“They’re the ones who sort of turn up every morning at six o’clock to fire the furnace and stay through to until 10 o’clock at night, sometimes to keep the firing going,” he said.

The group will follow the Armidale Art Gallery exhibition with its own exhibition, to be held at the clubhouse on December 8.