Time to celebrate Cork Craft Week

To celebrate Cork Craft Week, Louise Roseingrave goes glass blowing and channels Demi Moore with a spot of pottery-making.

MY teacher, potter Orla O’Rourke, flings the ball of clay at the pottery wheel with expert accuracy.

It’s important the clay sticks well, she explains. Equally important is getting it centred, otherwise you will ‘fight the clay’ as you try to shape it out of its current ball form.