Busy Bee Ceramics

“I paint each piece by hand using lush-coloured glazes that I make myself. When fired the glazes do this quirky thing so I never really know what is going to come out of the kiln.”

Each Busy Bee Ceramics piece tells a story. Potter Brenda McGinn spent a decade living in Killarney where the red deer of the National Park inspired her work. Her deer vases capture the strength and power of the red stags. Having returned to the “stony grey soil” of her native Co. Monaghan, McGinn is now looking to the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh and the region’s drumlins to inspire her new work and help create relief and texture in it. Each piece is made by hand, either on a potter’s wheel or using a rolling pin. It is then left to dry for 24 hours before Brenda sculpts into it to form an image.

BRENDA MCGINN
Emyvale,
Co. Monaghan
M: +353 (0)86 108 0738

brenda@busybeeceramics.ie www.busybeeceramics.ie

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Bread ‘n’ Butter Jug €15

Above
Bread ‘n’ Butter Jug & Teapot €15 / €35