Eleanor – Artist & Ceramicist
Eleanor is a passionate ceramic artist, her work is very popular and she is a successful Artisan working from her studio in Irelands Garden county – Wicklow.
She uses a variety of clays for her work, from grogged architectural stoneware clays for her large sculptural pieces to fine porcelain for more delicate work.
Eleanor creates Urn pieces for Irish Urns that are designed to reflect a person who shined light into the lives of others.
An Urn that reflects a personality that lived life their own way, fun-loving and high energy, bringing color to all the things they did and the people they met.
Eleanor doesn’t create the ‘normal’ Urn form or the ‘normal’ Urn Glaze, Eleanor believes in creating Urns that speak about a bright life, rather than a sad death.
Maura – Jewellery Designer & Artist
Maura, an award-winning West Cork Designer and Artist, creates exclusive pieces for Irish Urns.
Her ash jewellery pendants are earthy and natural in design and shaped to reflect jewellery created in ancient times.
Dan – Artist and Ceramicist
Dan our Raku Ceramicist is based in the beautiful Surroundings Of The Dublin Mountains.
Dan, Originally A Chef For More Than 10 Years, Is A Self-Taught Potter Who Turned His Hands From Plating Food To Creating Stunning Ceramics.
Dan our Raku Ceramicist is based in the beautiful Surroundings Of The Dublin Mountains.
Dan, Originally A Chef For More Than 10 Years, Is A Self-Taught Potter Who Turned His Hands From Plating Food To Creating Stunning Ceramics.
Each Piece Is Hand Thrown Using Stoneware Clay As Well As Local, Hand Dug, Irish Clay And For The Irish Urns Pieces Dan Has Used The Raku Method In His Specially Design Kiln
Eoghan – Cremation Jewelry for Ashes
Eoghan creates original designs of Keepsake jewellery for ashes, inspired by Ireland’s incredibly rich Celtic heritage and culture.
Every unique Keepsake pendant or unique Keepsake Necklace piece is designed and meticulously handcrafted in contemporary and traditional styles which celebrate the artwork of the ancient Celts in cremation jewelry for ashes.
Hand-crafted by people who really care.
Ireland is a country famous for the quality of its crafts people and we have assembled the best of Irelands’ Artisans to bring you a stunning collection of high-Quality Cremation Urns.
Radek – Land and Sea- Cremation Urn Collection
The Irish land and Sea Cremation Urn collection is created by Radek, a second-generation ceramicist.
Designing, throwing and glazing his own creations for over 24 years.
Roisín – Cast Glass Cremation sculptures
Roisín ( Ro-sheen) lives with her family in the rural setting of Ballyboughal in North County Dublin. With a BA (Hons) Fine Arts degree in Applied Materials, specializing in Glass in the Irish National College of Art and Design
Seamus- Celtic Shield Collection
Seamus lives with his family near Slane in the Boyne Valley, close to the historic 5,000-year-old site of Newgrange.
What criteria was used to assemble such great Artisans?
As our guide to authenticity and quality, each artisan must have:-
- Irish National award-winning recognition.
- Have commissioned works for our Head of State, President or Government.
- Integrity, a deep appreciation that each Cremation Urn must give comfort to families.
- Commitment to unique design.
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Bob Hamilton – Irish Urns
Artisan Country
Ireland is world-famous for the quality and passion of its Craftspeople. Of the 1,000 registered artisans in Ireland, across the three disciplines of Wood, Ceramics, Glass, Silver and Gold, only a very small number create Unique Irish Handcrafted Urns for Ashes and Cremation jewelry for ashes.
What is involved in creating an Irish Urn for Ashes?
To really appreciate the work involved in creating a Cremation Urn by hand you need to consider many elements and a multitude of steps.
For a comparison – A Chinese manufactured mass-produced metal Urn will be cast in a machined mold, removed, polished and sent out the door.
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A handmade Irish Urn for ashes takes so much more work, time and patience.
Our Ceramic Cremation Urns can take twelve steps, including hand glazing and three drying processes, two firings in a kiln and can take 2/3 weeks from start to finish as the Kilns heat and slowly cool.
Our Wooden Urns take huge effort and time, for example before even starting wood must be found, dried over years, selected for its grain composition and then slowly formed. Hand formed through a lathe, or hand-sculpted, sanded perhaps 20 times across 6 grades of sandpaper, sometimes scorching, sometimes polishing multiple times.
Our cast glass urns for cremation take about two weeks as the individual mold is drawn, cut, formed and a plaster mold created before adding the glass and days in the Kiln. The mold is then broken to reveal if it worked successfully and only then do the hours and hours of sanding start to create highly polished Urns for human ashes.
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