Turnstone Ceramics is creates studio ceramics. All ceramics are handmade by Tamaru Hunt-Joshi in her studio in in Moycullen, Co. Galway Ireland. Tamaru makes botanically inspired ceramics inspired by landscape. She creates her work using raku (smoke-fired) ceramics and stoneware ceramics
Puffins
Puffins with a lot to say about why they are struggling as a species
Fishing egret
Large egret sculpture is raku fired, mounted on steel legs on a piece of bog oak. Currently for sale in the Foust Gallery Ennistymon
Godwit
Raku fired godwit sculpture mounted on a ceramic stone.
Kestrel
Curlew
Corncrake
Golden plover
Razor bills
Lapwing
Turnstone Ceramics Raku fired puffins
Turnstone Ceramics Raku fired puffins, made in Ireland
Black backed gull
Gannets
Oyster catcher
Raku fired Long tailed tits on a ceramic birch branch
Fishing Egret. Turnstone ceramics
Raku windswept tree landscape panel
Raku fired curved panel depicting a windswept tree against the sky.
Shore birds on bog oak
This sculpture of shorebirds on a piece of bog oak is delightfully reminiscent of a day at the beach. Made with Raku fired ceramic birds, nails for beaks (from refurbished Galway Hooker boats) and wire for legs. Mounted on a reclaimed piece of bog oak
Metallic Raku vases
Reduction firing these vases has brough out the copper tones in these vases (sold)
Raku Landscape Bottles
Two raku bottles created with landscape in mind. Inspired by local limestone karst landscape in the Burren and close to my home
Emperor penguin sculpture - raku fired
At 23 cm in height, this raku sculpture is as large as I can fit in my kiln. It has been fired to 1000 degrees C, and smoked in a bin of pine shavings. The smoke is driven into the pores in the clay and into the crazing of the glaze.
raku landscape vase
Raku Jenny wrens
Sold individually, these Raku Jenny wrens have personality!
Egrets on wood
Raku fired egrets on driftwood.
Raku Lidded Box
Raku Goldfinches on driftwood
Two Raku Goldfinches on driftwood, with wire legs (sold)
Stoneware parsley landscape
This unglazed stoneware panel is framed in a limed wooden frame
Stoneware print of Galway's Longwalk (sold)
This is a print (using a reverse transfer process) of slip on a leather hard stoneware slab of Galway’s Iconic Long Walk
Ceramic print in stoneware of summer flowers