Brookwood Pottery Christmas Trading Hours

Well it's been a really busy Christmas and so far I've done Killester Craft Fair, the Botanic Gardens Christmas Fair and a corporate fair in town. It's been great fun, hard work and lovely to meet the customers face to face! In the last few days running up to Christmas I'll be trading 24 - 7 basically!!

There are 3 ways to get some handthrown totally Irish and homegrown pottery from me in the last few days before Christmas:

Cow's Lane Designer Studio, Cow's Lane Temple Bar: I've brought new stock into the shop and reduced my prices to try and match my market stall prices..... They're open every day right up to and including Christmas eve..

Cow's Lane Designer Mart - This Saturday (December 21st) is my last market day but the weather outside is frightful so kinda worried it won't go ahead - If it does I'll be there in my 735 layers of clothing from 10 am to 5 pm..

From my House or by E mail - That's right ...it's a Brookwood Pottery Pop Up Shop In Artane, Dublin 5 right in my living room - I have framed work for 49 euro, vases, beautiful bowls and free Christmas decoration with each gift...Alternatively you can e mail me with any last minute orders..

Happy Christmas and a very Big Thank You for all of your support in 2013...

(From top : Wild Flower Large Jugs 55 euro, Winds Light to Variable Bowls Small Curved Bowls from 22 euro...)
Images by Donal Murphy Photography)

Brookwood Pottery now available at the National Gallery Gift Shop, Dublin.

I'm delighted to announce that the National Gallery gift shop are selling my work. They are showing my 'Tree' (see blog background picture) and 'Sabina' range. I have made large bowls and jugs, vases and smaller curved bowls for the gallery shop. They are also showing my Birdcage night lights with hand stamped lyrics and my ceramic brooches. So please spread the word and hopefully my pots will get wings! Many thanks!

Sabina curved bowl (small) - blue underglaze with sgrafitto pattern.

Ceramic brooches by Brookwood Pottery

Birdcage Night Light by Brookwood Pottery

New Framed Work in Cow's Lane Design Studio

I've really been enjoying doing some flat work on clay recently. The following are low fired earthenware clay works with a combination of underglazes and ceramic crayon marks.

Autumn Bog, 2013, 50 x 25 cms, earthenware clay and underglazes.

Autumn Bog was based on foliage collected in the Girley Bog, Kells. Co. Meath. (that's the name honestly!). It has a beautiful raised bog and loop walk which is around 6 kilometres long, a lovely day out for the family as they say! This is currently in Cow's Lane Design Studio, Dublin, 169 euro.

Summer Meadow, 2013, 50 x 25 cms, earthenware clay and underglazes. 169 euro. SOLD

Yellow Meadow, 2013, 25 x 25 cms, earthenware clay and underglazes. 68euro. SOLD

Pottery Courses

Hi everyone, 
As I am so busy making at the moment I have had to stop teaching ceramics for a while. I am hoping to do some local classes in September 2014 so please keep an eye on my blog,

Elaine, Brookwood Pottery, March 2014 

Youngest student so far, Martha aged 3 years!

Winds Light to Variable

I've been working on some new pots that I am showing in Cow's Lane Designer Studio in Temple Bar this Saturday. They are blue and white with some sgraffitto designs, I'll post  images when they get out of the kiln!

Here is the sign I've designed to go with them, a lifetime of watching RTE weather forecasts have made an impression! Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Brookwood Pottery now in Cow's Lane Design Studio, Temple Bar.

Hi everyone and many apologies for the delay in updating my blog. Things have been very busy with commissions, markets, retailing and making! But I have been enjoying every minute of it. It was a real thrill to get my first retail space with the designers and makers of Cow's Lane Design Studio, Temple Bar. I've been selling bowls, jugs and night lights in there with some framed work and it's been going great.

Brookwood Pottery at Cow's Lane Designer Studio, Temple Bar

Also I've been working away at the market every Saturday, converting the masses to colourful ceramics and enjoying that, I've been trying to sell smaller items like brooches and mugs as the feedback is that tourists don't want to carry the big stuff- bah!! Ryanair!!

Lastly I've done some wedding commissions and my first commercial commission for Brady's Butchers in Fairview which was challenging and forced me to push myself. I was pleased with the results and hope to get more of this type of work. So if I don't see you at the Saturday Designer Mart in Temple Bar, Cow's Lane, have a great summer and keep an eye on my Facebook page which I update regularly with quick shots of new work..look for Brookwood Pottery

Wedding commission - Breakfast set of 2 bowls, plates and mugs with WB Yeats Text

Brady's Butchers Commission - Earthenware jugs approx 24 cms high

Take care- fingers crossed for some sun and heat!

Mother's Day Gifts at Brookwood Pottery

Mother & Child, Ceramic artwork, earthenware clay, underglazed and twice fired.

Hi there if you're looking for a special Mother's Day gift I have made a small number of these ceramic artworks based on a favourite card I received many years ago on the birth of my first daughter. So this work is firmly inspired by Picasso! It comes framed in 2 sizes small - 39 euro, larger piece 49 euro. I can also customise the inscription in pencil underneath. Each artwork is signed by me.

This would make a beautiful christening gift also as it is a very tender, joyful image.

And hey if you are skint don't worry - I am making adorable ceramic brooches for 4.95 and 6.95 which I can post easily. Happy Mother's Day to all, past and present. Best wishes, Elaine.

Brookwood Pottery now at Designer Mart , Cow's Lane, Temple Bar

Hi Everyone, I'm delighted to let you know that I'll be at the Designer Mart in Temple Bar each Saturday from 10 to 5 pm selling my work. Last weekend was the first outing and we had great fun setting up and meeting all the other makers and, of course, our new customers. It feels great to finally have the work out there and get such a warm reaction - Thanks Everyone! At the moment I am showing egg cups, ceramic brooches (4. 95 and 6. 95 for the bird brooches) carved night lights 29 euro, framed art work and jugs, 35 euro bowls from 25  with the odd little bird sculpture thrown in!

Looking forward to Seeing you there sometime! All the Best Elaine

Bricks in the Rain - Ceramic Exhibition

Hi Everyone, There is a fantastic ceramic exhibition running in the Culture Box Temple Bar until 25 Feb, I would really encourage you to go and look at the work both for ideas and inspiration. The exhibition is based on a group of ceramic artists that travelled to China in 2011 to create a body of work for an Irish  ceramic pavilion in an international ceramic centre.
The trip made such a deep cultural impression on them that they decided to explore this journey through a new body of work which resulted in Bricks in the Rain.

Cora Zhang from Raheny enjoying a work by Frances Lambe. Photo: Donal Murphy Photography

Artist Sinead Glynn with her work. Photo: Donal Murphy Photography

This exhibition will tour to Cork in April so catch it while it's on in Dublin! It's well worth a visit!

Surface Decoration for Tiles!

Hello there, hope you're having a nice weekend. This week in my pottery class in the Donahies we'll be decorating the tiles we have made. Please see images from my studio of materials I use to make various marks, textures and patterns on clay. It can be very satisfying experimenting with different objects and hitting on a winner...so get collecting materials from the garden and home, textured lace, sturdy leaves with pronounced veins, stamps, plastic toys or pens (circles, dot patterns) and many other possibilities. Also I'll have the new pottery tool sets students have ordered, see you next week!

Donahies Pottery Classes - List of materials

Hi Everyone
A big thank you to all those who have enrolled in the Donahies Pottery Class.By the end of this course you will have :

• Learnt how to create and finish several beautiful pots using coil, slab and pinch methods.
• Learnt about surface decoration on clay, mark making, texturing and applied decoration.
• Glazed your own biscuit fired work and decided on final colours and pattern

For your first and subsequent classes please bring the following materials which you probably will already have at home:

• Old shirt or apron
• Heavy square or rectangular piece of linen or cloth to roll clay out on
• Plastic ruler and or set square
• Old paint brush (as in fine art) to apply slip
• Old fork for scoring clay
• Flat wooden spatula (from the kitchen!)
• Sponge / cloth for cleaning your work area
• Towel
• Notepad and pencils for sketches/ designs

Owl Night light, Brookwood Pottery 2012, 26 euro

See you on this Monday evening 7 30 - 9.30 pm (ps If this all sounds like too much hard work please note there is a 20 minute break in the class where you can get a cup of tea or coffee in the cafe too!)

New Year...New Pottery Classes.. January 2013!

Biscuit Fired Teapot by James, Donahies Class 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope that 2013 brings all good things to you and those you care for! I'll be starting a new set of pottery classes at the end of January so if you feel like getting absorbed into something totally new or want to build on what you've learnt in a previous class then why not consider a pottery class!

This year I'll be teaching in 3 venues:

Monday morning 9.30 - 11 am KLEAR Adult Education Centre, Kilbarrack, tel: 01 8671845

www.kleared.ie

Starting Mon 28 January Cost - 110 euro

Monday Evening - Donahies (This course has been advertised in leaflet as Tuesday night but has been changed to Monday instead) 7.30 - 9.30 - 120 euro tel: 848 2217

www.donahiescommunityschool.com
Starting Mon 28 Jan

Wednesday Night - Marino College 6.30 - 8.30 tel: 01 8332100

www.marinocollege.ie  130 euro
Starting Wed 23 Jan

Please feel free to call me on 087 770 6879 with any queries about courses etc