Sole Trader.

Alan Gaillard Shattock founded and was first Chairman of the Craft Potters Society of Ireland (now Ceramics Ireland) and has exhibited in many of their exhibitions. Alan now lives at his studio home with his woollen artist partner Sandra, near Clifden in the west of Ireland where he makes wheel-thrown and hand built reduction fired stoneware in colours inspired by the Connemara landscape. Visitors are very welcome at their studios and showroom on the Westport Road, two kms from Clifden.

Gallery, Craft Shop and Pottery, check web site for details www.ardmorepottery.com

I am a ceramic designer from Limerick. I create wall panels and free standing high fired stoneware pieces based on urban and rural architecture. I have been influenced by architecture, both modern and ancient and added a quirky twist to create cartoon like, surreal landscapes and cityscapes. As all my work is hand built and glazed each piece is individually unique.

Handmade pottery and jewellery. I make everything by hand and my work is mainly thrown, even the tiny teacup earrings. My jewellery is all made with sterling silver. The landscape of Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, is a constant source of inspiration to me. The movement of the sea and the patterns left on the sand by the continuous rhythms of the tide are what most inspire me.

Claire Molloy specialises in horsehair and smoke fired ceramics. She is influenced by the Irish rural environment and likes to create simple natural looking forms with subtle colours and textures. Her love of horses directly influences her horsehair pottery. She uses hair from her horse’s manes and tails to embellish the vessels. She also uses wood shavings, straw and hay to create her smoke fired pots, all materials which are used to care for her horses. Claire also creates individual pots for horse owners, where each pot is decorated with hair from a particular horse to create a unique memento.She has an honours degree in Sculptural ceramics from the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and has attended the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Ceramics Skills and Design Course.

In creating thrown, mainly functional pieces I explore architecture and form with its many interesting shapes, angles and scales. I have a true passion for teapots and I enjoy exploring and making my own unique style, having studied them and their history in depth. Making connections and bonds between the pieces in either groups or coupled pieces is important to me in the way I display my work. I use a series of processes and techniques to create pieces in a variety of clays. My favourite of those that I have recently come to work with is porcelain. I love its durable and translucent qualities and look forward to my challenging journey ahead in working with it. Email:murdock-c6@email.ulster.ac.uk

Studio Ceramic Artist

'Porcelain with Passion!' Handbuilt, glazed & unglazed porcelain tableware, jewellery, sculpture and wall art from Swallows Rest Studio. Inspired by water's contrasts of 'delicate strength', porcelain is transformed with passion and innovation to gifts of beauty and function. A local Irish business founded by Clare Jordan, uses the swallow as it's logo, as a result of the swallows returning to her garage where she first started the business in 2010. Tableware products range from Wave Bowls, Platters & Vases to 'Porcelain Pouches' pots. Jewellery designs are unique combining porcelain with silver, gold & fabricBespoke Wall Art & Sculptures have diverse themes and everything is GIFTBOXED!!

One man studio making woodfired earthenware domestic pottery.

working mostly in illuminated porcelain

creative work from the last 10 to 15 years. The work uses different media; ceramics, batik, photography, painting, and video.

Illuminated porcelain, lamps, etc

Hand-made table ware and gift ware. All of my work is done by hand and mainly on the wheel. My work is colourful and vibrant. I am a new business based in Brittas bay in Co.Wicklow that started Sept 2010. I run evening classes for both adults and children.

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Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specialising in pottery, glass fusing and stained glass, jewellery-making, and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties. Adrian Wistreich specialises in making teapots, which are exhibited in The Coach House Gallery at the pottery.

Wrapping, stacking, tension and calm: these are elements that I explore through my thrown and altered vessel forms. Their pattern and movement reflect the organic orderliness of my surrounding agricultural landscape; their colours echo its palette. The work is salt fired to 1300°C in a wood-fuelled kiln. This unpredictable firing technique seems to physically embed the landscape in my work. Each piece is both caressed and assaulted by the flame, ash and salt vapour moving through the kiln in the intense heat of the firing. Their surfaces are a record of this journey.

Markus is a Ceramics artist specialising in unique wheel thrown porcelain, making small numbers of delicate tableware pieces. For more information see mjungmann.com

Sculptural Ceramics mainly in porcelain and carved brick with woven wire, carved Irish wood and drift wood also framed pieces. Special occasion commissions available.

Medium size ceramic pieces inspired by nature, above all by sea, horses, seasonal changes...I minimize the use of special tools during work with clay and rely mostly on my hands and what is available in my surrounding to obtain simple, intimate and often primitive outlook of my creations.

Ceramic artist working in Dublin.

I am a ceramic artist who smoke fires porcelain vessels.

Noreen is a contemporary Irish artist working from her studio in Co Clare, handcrafting glass and porcelain into unique pieces, to create beautiful gifts for special occasions and art for sacred spaces

Noreen is a contemporary Irish artist working from her studio in Co Clare, handcrafting glass and porcelain into unique pieces, to create beautiful gifts for special occasions and art for sacred spaces

Small Studio Pottery based in the Antrim hills. Producing wheel based vessels in stoneware and porcelain an extensive range of porcelain brooches also available. Visit by appointment only. Email:r.h.shearer@talk21.com

Adrienne works with clay part-time making functional ware both to her heart's desire and bespoke (provided the client's concept is within her range of capabilities). She facilitates a Clayday Playday one Saturday a month where grown-ups can explore their creativity.

Shauna creates sculptural ceramics and 1 off pieces for galleries and commission. She often produces framed ceramic artwork with a combination of glass fusion. She also creates large scale ceramic art works with community groups and commissions. Inspiration has been drawn from using traditional ceramic techniques and styles, yet using these procedures to accomplish an authentic, yet also distinct contemporary outcome.

Slip cast sculptural ceramics, alternative firings include raku, naked raku, smoke firings and ferric firings.

Contact me at: 085 7190912 or : byrnetina@hotmail.com