Mud Ireland Pottery

Edition Three Feature
Words by: Josh Lyness 
Location: Lurgan, Northern Ireland 
Photo Credit: ©Sohaile McKee @vizzcreative 

My name is Josh Lyness and I’m a potter. Together with my wife Holly, who looks after the business end, we run Mud Ireland Pottery. 

I’ve been a ceramicist for the past five years, having originally studied the Foundation Studies programme at Ulster University with the goal of becoming an animator. But in my foundation year, I fell in love with ceramics and swapped my computer for the clay. I was immediately drawn by the tangible, tactile nature of the craft. I’d always been fascinated with the process, but from the first time that I sat at the potter’s wheel, I have never looked back. I worked as an apprentice at Ballydougan Pottery for three years before graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in Ceramics, Jewellery and Silversmithing and starting my own small business in my hometown of Lurgan, in Northern Ireland. 

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