THE WORK
Environment & process
The farm, the coastline, the fire. Where the work comes from.
The studio is a working farm between the mountains and the Atlantic. The landscape provides the materials: kelp and salt-crusted stone from the strand, ash from the kitchen, ochre from the fields, milk from the cows.
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HAND-BUILDING
Slabs, coils, thumb and knuckle. No moulds, no repeats. The form is decided in the hands, not on paper.
02
SAGGAR & PIT FIRING
Work is wrapped in foil saggars with kelp, salt and ash, then fired in an open pit or kiln. The fire finishes what the hands began. Every surface keeps a record of it.
03
MATERIALS
Coastal finds, kitchen ash, ochre, salt. Milk from the farm seals the charcoals. Irish clay distributors where possible; everything wasted is recycled and reused.
THE FIRE PIT DURING FIRING
KERRY COASTLINE
THE STRAND · COASTAL MATERIALS
THE FARM IN FOG
SURFACE · COBALT AND SALT
STUDIO · WORKS IN WAITING