Stoneware Pottery by Alan Shattock - Alan Gaillard Pottery is based in Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland

	Alan Gaillard Stoneware Pottery, Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland Website last updated: 8th Feb 2011
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ABOUT ALAN GAILLARD POTTERY

Gaillard pottery was first created in the early 1970’s until the early 1980’s by Alan Shattock at his part-time studio in Bohernabreena, Co. Dublin. Alan’s middle (french) name, Gaillard, was first used with his oil and ceramic paintings when training with his full-time potter parents, Dick and Mary Shattock, in Cornwall, Guernsey and Devon. When Alan came to Ireland in the 1960’s he founded and was first Chairman of The Craft Potters Society of Ireland (CPSI), now Ceramics Ireland, and exhibited in many CPSI exhibitions. In this early period, his stoneware was sold privately to a small number of collectors and through shops in Ranelagh, Dundrum and Blessington.

Alan Gaillard Pottery is now back and in full-time production at his new, purpose-built, studio in Clifden, Connemara, which was opened in early 2009. Using all natural raw materials for his glazes, to his own and his (late) parents recipes, Alan is reproducing many of his original 1970’s and 80’s domestic tableware forms in immensely strong reduction-fired stoneware, in addition to his unique hand-built one-off lamps. All his tableware is oven, microwave and dishwasher proof. He is using dolomite and iron glazes, some of the latter in classic “Teadust” Tenmoku. Alan also works with peat ash greens and cobalt blues. He is also experimenting with locally garnered yellow ochres and granite dust glazes to add to his finishes for one-off pieces. Another new addition to Alan’s work combines intricate beach-combed driftwood, uncannily moulded by the sea into lifelike forms, with hand-built ceramic bases, which are totally unique.