Summer studio is open!

Glencairn Pottery: Some demonstration pictures.

Marcus demonstrating a lidded form..

..and another

I was inspired by this piece thrown by Marcus...

...who was inspired to chuck it.

Phil Rogers demonstrating a couple of different approaches to lidded jars.

Throwing a lid for the jar above..

A large bottle thrown in two stages..

Marcus throwing some porcelain bottles.

Wood-Fire Workshop, Glencairn Pottery, Lismore, Ireland

Well I've just returned from Ireland and a much anticipated two week wood-fire workshop at the studios of Macrcus O'Mahony. Marcus and his wife Joan live in a beautiful rural area outside of the village of Lismore  in county Waterford, Ireland. Their property is surrounded by stone walls and hedge rows outside of which lay open fields inhabited with grazing cattle, pretty nice digs, a ceramicists oasis in a field of green. The added benefit of the rural studio for the wood-firing potter; less neighbors means less complaints about smoke!

The studio is a repurposed stone barn with a guest apartment above.

This is the 19th century  farm house Marcus and Joan have restored and it is where several of us stayed during the workshop.

Potter and house-mate Marion Hebblethwaite relaxes after a day at the wheel.

The kiln shed left and the back of the studio right.

I didn't find this hidden boardwalk garden for days, hard to believe its Ireland. 

Joey the family cat...an excellent mouser is he.

Nearby stone farm buildings..

Typical county lane in this area.

What Marion called bacon... meat in Ireland is just really good!!