27 October 2015
Updated 27th.October 2015
A run of anniversary and wedding dishes for various people (whose names are on the pots) led to the first tin-glazed earthenware firing for ages. The Scotty dog dish, which was the most trouble to paint, seems to be getting very positive responses online. Hopefully this won’t become a habit!
27 July 2015
No-one was more surprised than I was to win the Ceramics Prize,”established maker” at the RDS National Crafts Competition today.
21 July 2015
As well as the large Jun bowls below, I’ve been making some very large square dishes, over 14″ x 14″ (about as big as will fit on a kiln shelf) with a mixture of sgraffitto through slip, and wax resist over biscuit-fired underglaze.
This is the dish that won the ceramics prize at the RDS National Crafts Awards in July 2015
For the Ceramics Ireland Summer show, as a relief from all the oilspot bowls for my solo exhibition at NAG Gallery, Dublin, I made some very large “Hiberno-Moresque” ferny jun bowls and platters.
30 June 2015
We had a good crowd for the opening of Mu on Thursday 25th, June. Dr.Nicola Gordon Bowe talked at length and in glowing terms about the work. And we got a very nice notice from Deirdre McQuillan in the front page of Saturday’s Irish Times Magazine. “Bowling Along”, below right.
