My name is Susi C. Coveney-Conroy, I was born in Catalonia of an English mother and Catalan father. I came to live in Ireland in 1993 where I married an Irishman. After the birth of our son I started working with clay, making butter dishes. As a friend commissioned me for one with a sheep on it I started making more sheep and so “A Piece of Ireland” was born in 2013. I then started making hand built mugs with sheep on them and this evolved into throwing stoneware mugs on the potter’s wheel. I wanted to decorate them with trees, inspired by my morning walks in the woods of Moycullen, so asked my mom, Christine, a multidisciplinary artist, to make me some drawings. We have since developed a variety of designs, always related to nature and Ireland. |
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