Connemara Blue

Elbow grease, grit, and determination

October 24, 2018

"This unique streaky glass uses the magical properties of Bullseye Red Reactive glass. Each sheet is a swirling dreamscape of moss, geological caramel, and jewel tones. Heatwork heightens the interplay. Fired characteristics may include areas of opacity, transparency, mottling, streakiness and polychromatic effects ranging from earth to jewel tones."

"How do you do that?"

February 08, 2018

All sorts of people ask all sorts of questions. They range from, “is this plastic?” (no, it isn’t) through, “do you paint the colour on afterwards?” (no, we use coloured glass), to “how do you squish it into shape?” (is ‘squishing’ even a word?!)

An Important Announcement

January 18, 2018

Shipping - A Stormy Love Affair Begins

January 13, 2018

We've since established a very happy and satisfactory relationship with FedEx, the international couriers, but in those innocent days this had yet to flourish

Skerries and the Incurably Bewildered

January 10, 2018

Fully expecting it to be my other - and far better - half, I deeply intoned into the receiver, "Ben's Sanatorium for the Incurably Bewildered". The silence that followed told me everything

A little piece of history - the origins of our 'John Conneely's Sheep' wall panel

December 17, 2017

It was as a dull and thoroughly unremarkable day in Birmingham, as the suburban sky moved sluggishly through more than fifty shades of grey towards evening, when it hit me.