Sebastopol is an area on the Western end of Inishbofin island, County Galway. It is said that a sailor left the island and travelled the world. At one point he passed the port of Sevastopol in the Black Sea and on return to Inishbofin he named this stretch of the island after the remote and distant land.

Nick Corcoran grew up in Barnaslingan surrounded by the forests of the Dublin Mountains and childhood summers were spent camping on the beaches of Inishbofin. He emmigrated to the United States in the 1980s and began his apprenticeship with Irish carpenters in Manhattan, New York.

Nicks’ creativity was expressed in his beloved workshop sequestered in the woods of Hampton Bays, Long Island. Inspired by the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Shaker traditional furniture and Japanese aesthetics he explored and experimented with materials and techniques in every spare moment. He created exquisite works of art in wood, leather, glass, copper, aluminium and plastics that have featured in exhibitions at Saks Fifth Avenue and are in private collections across the United States and Ireland.

Nick Corcoran has returned to Ireland 100 years after he left as a teenager. His work is available for commission.

All photographs courtesy of the very talented Vivienne O’Brien and Killian Broderick.