Tom Callery is one half of the husband and wife team who run Breeogue Pottery, the established Co. Sligo-based studio that he set up with Gráinne MacLoughlin. This year the potter who trained at Sligo Institute of Technology as a fine art painter is showing on his own. He is experimenting with the transition from high-end production to one-off pieces. Some of the larger pieces measure four foot by five foot in size, and while still suited to the home environment offer a fine art approach to pottery.

“My designs range from domestic to larger format sculptural pieces as well as tiles, murals and my signature bird vases.”

“I’m becoming more sculptural in the type of work that I do. The recent building of a new studio and kiln facility has enabled this move towards more gallery-orientated, one-off sculptural pieces. I’m quite involved in the landscapes, in a sense I paint Irish landscapes using a pot as a canvas. It is pottery as fine art.”