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I am often inspired by scientific imagery - I want my work not only to decorate, but also intrigue.
I am a glass artist who graduated from Wolverhampton in 2010 with a 1st degree in Applied Art specialising in Glass. My work explores the relationship that we as humans have with objects. I am interested in the 'memory' of an object; who has touched it, what impression the object left on that person and how that impression would have manifested itself on the object.
BA Hons Contemporary Crafts is a three year course offering a diverse range of traditional craft processes like kiln-formed glass alongside digital technologies.
JanHein van Stiphout is a trained sculptor. Born into glass, glass always was and still is ‘his’ material. His concept based work takes the inherent properties of glass such as resilience, flexibility and fragility to the extreme. Nature is regularly a source of inspiration. International exhibitions; work in collection of museums; selected work in New Glass Review; winner of several glass prices.
Born on 3 August 1951 in Sofia and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts.
At the beginning of his artistic career he chose glass as the main material for creative expression. He is fascinated by the opportunity to use light as a direct component of his work.
At the beginning he works primarily with stained glass, but later extensive plastic form becomes more attractive for the artist. There are a number of projects in interiors as well as numerous exhibitions of stained glass, lamps and decorated mirrors.
Human faces, which excited him throughout his life, became a major theme of his glass sculptures. "Glass has properties that make it close to the quality of the human face. Depending on the light which glass transmits or reflects, it changes in the same way emotions changes the human face "- says about his works Yuri Vasilev.