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CRAFT:The recession has given sculptor Eoin Turner a chance to focus on what he really wants to do, writes KEVIN COURTNEY

STAND CLOSE TO one of Eoin Turner’s glass sculptures, and you might just hear the call of the sea somewhere in the swirls and eddys of blown glass. It’s hardly surprising: the Cork artist comes from a seafaring family, and spent his formative years fishing off Castletownbere with his brother. Their father had been a merchant seaman, and the young Turner grew up on romantic tales of distant shores. If his life had continued on its set course, Turner would probably now be captaining his own trawler – or maybe even a luxury motor yacht on the Mediterranean.