About Tad

I am trained as an ecologist and evolutionary biologist. After I had a career in science and teaching, I retired in 2019 to begin a second, or perhaps, third career as an artist. Since high school, I had made pots when the opportunity presented itself and painted, mostly in rural southwest Ireland. In 2020, during Covid, I opened River Road Pottery and began more full time making. In 2021 I studied traditional Irish willow basket weaving and have subsequently combined those methods with my pottery and with turned wood. My paintings have been exhibited widely in galleries in Ireland, and my mixed media ceramics and willow work is carried by the Mill Cove Gallery in Kenmare Ireland.

At home in the USA, I sell my work through the pottery at 681 River Road, Jamaica, VT. I attempt to make my work sustainable with the use of solar powered kilns, growing my own willow, and sourcing local discarded hardwoods. I have the privilege in retirement of not needing to support myself through my work, so I keep prices low to make the work widely accessible while allowing me to keep making. My wife, Vicky, is a textile artist.