❄️ A seasonal personal/promotional/pottery post: My oldest and I did our own private tour of Galway around shop street and the spanish arch earlier this year, when a kind stranger offered to snap a few photos of us outside Judy Greene Pottery.
🍀 My favourite number is 11, middle name is Maureen and I’ve been making pots for the past four years, so I took it as a good sign! Maybe I’ll have a shop called Amy Maureen’s in future?
🚸 For now, I’m making things in community studios and at my kitchen table during school hours. So it’s only fitting we’ll be at St. Patrick’s HS Craft Fair this Saturday with over 100 artisans, crafters and student volunteers, in their gyms converted into a holiday mall for you to stroll around and shop local. I’ll have handmade pots, art and note card prints of my photos from our time spent living in Ireland, England and Australia.
You can find us at:
St. Patrick’s HS, 2525 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa
Saturday, November 25th from 10 am – 3 pm
$2 admission, children free
🎨 If you can’t make it, I’ll be reopening my online shop and booking future local markets for 2024. Less activism for me, more art making…which in itself is a form of it!
🚼📊 It’s still Mixing Babies And Business™ but my oldest two kids are now school age, production is small batch handmade and focused on sustainability and spreading joy.
🌊 And if you’re planning a trip to Ireland, be sure to stopover in Co. Galway to drive around the Wild Atlantic Way and visit some of my favourite local artists, cafés and pubs in Spiddal Craft Village & Cáfe, Oughterard and Shop Street in Galway City…you won’t regret it and I’m sure Fáilte Ireland would agree.
Photo: Amy Lynch (me) and my six year old son wearing winter jackets and standing in front of Judy Greene’s pottery shop decorated with green and yellow trim, beside a dark blue painted Tempo Antiques shop, alongside a purple mural and portrait of Seamus Heaney with the words ‘Noli timere’ on Kirwan’s Lane, in Galway City, Ireland.
Stay well everyone,
– Amy (+ Family) xx
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