£25.00
W9cm X H8cm
Brave Mug
Wheel thrown, stamp design and hand glazed.
These pieces are made using made durable high fire stoneware clay and are made to withstand daily use.
Pieces are dishwasher safe.
All Gillybean Mugs are designed with the following in mind:
Light to hold, feel great in the hand
A huggable generous shape
Smooth hand pulled handles (large enough for the important 4 finger grip)
Turned foot, a little design flourish.
Stamped with the Gillybean logo
An ‘I want to pick you up right now’ glaze finish
Functional and durable! High fire stoneware, strong chip resistant glazes.
A rounded smooth lip, no undesirable lumps or bumps!
| Artists | Gillybean Pottery |
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Gillian is a potter, mother and part-time charity worker. She is originally from Galway, but has lived most of her adult life in Belfast.
“I fell in love with pottery when I was a little girl, enthralled with the wheel in my pottery class. I remember not having enough strength in my small hands to center clay on the wheel so I would follow my pottery teacher around relentlessly to ask him to center me a piece of clay. He was always so patient!
Fast forward a few decades and the lure of making things with clay just didn’t subside. I would dip in and out, but life was busy. A hectic career in the charity sector and then 3 children meant years passed by during which I thought ‘pottery will come’.
In 2019 I left my full time job and became a part time classroom assistant. This finally gave me enough time, space and mental energy to take ceramics a little more seriously, so I took some classes at the Ulster University here in Belfast.
Then lockdown put everyone’s life on hold and attending the college was no longer an option. I knew I had to find ways to keep making. So I took the plunge and bought myself a pottery wheel.
It had nowhere to live so I used it in our garden for 3 months before eventually hijacking an outside office that we’d been using for home working.
Lockdown gave me an opportunity to practice every day and work out what to include in some of the collections that you can now see on this site. Pottery as a business as well as a hobby had arrived!
I like to think that the calm satisfaction of the pottery process and my utter love of making passes on to the owner with every piece.”