Member’s Spotlight

Ian Chadwick is an award-winning, internationally recognised glass artist currently living and creating in Manchester UK. The glass Ian produces uses symmetry as its fundamental design tool. Symmetry is used by man and nature as a device to add continuity, balance and harmony to a chaotic universe, its use in art and design, consequently, attains an aesthetic of order and familiarity. Ian uses kiln-forming techniques to produce sheets of striped, coloured glass which are then deconstructed and reconstructed into patterns which exhibit a hypnotic, op-art effect. These arrangements are then kiln-fired and cold worked to produce the finished piece.