Current Exhibition

Form & Function – January to March

Current Exhibition

Form & Function – January to March

Exhibition 1 – Form & Function
Call out 15th December
Deadline 12th January  Change this to a later date
Live 19th January NEW DATE
Meet the Makers Talk – TBC (18th Feb)
End 16th March

Form & Function invites artists to explore how appearance and purpose inform one another. The exhibition aims to discuss where beauty meets utility: how vessels, objects, or functional forms can also carry emotion, narrative, or atmosphere. Artists are encouraged to consider how craftsmanship, material understanding, and intention converge in their work, and to submit pieces that either embrace functionality, question it, or expand it’s possibilities.

Launched on:12th January 2026



Imagine
Silver alchemy
The Parable of the Sower
In Bloom
Loaf Pan
Sea Dragons Vase
Nili's Clock
The sea
eye candy dish
Anomalous Chronometer

Artist:John A. Webster

Email:jwebgrey@gmail.com

Title:Imagine

Description: A multicolored neighbor hood on a hill. A title evoking a. song by John Lennon. A hill that has obviously been modified by mankind. The symbolism is intentional.
-Multiple colors fro the myriad differences in people
-Attached row houses indicating we live in a shared world
-Colors of glass flow and influence each other without mixing. As in life - we are all influenced by those around us

Contact: jwebgrey@gmail.com

Details: Kiln Cast Lead Crystal

Price: £ 16,000

Photo Credit: Dan Fox, Lumina Studios

Dimension: 24

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Elizabeth Taggart

Email:elizabeth@cuillin-glass.co.uk

Title:Silver alchemy

Description: Formed using the drop-out technique, Bullseye French Vanilla glass is shaped by gravity and heat, while silver foil reacts in the kiln to create unpredictable blue and brown surfaces. Standing 10 cm tall, the vases are both functional objects and records of chemical and physical change.

Contact: Elizabeth Taggart

Details: Fused glass drop vessels

Price: £200

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Taggart

Dimension: 10cm tall

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Sue Burne

Email:sueburneart@gmail.com

Title:The Parable of the Sower

Description: Internal, upper window in the parish church in Clapham, Bedfordshire. Engraved in 2015 when building work was done to create a room above a new vestry/kitchen. It needed to give light but privacy for when the room was in use. The Parable of the Sower was chosen by the congregation and they wanted an image of their own church with English fields and English flora and fauna in the design.

Contact: Sue Burne

Details: Church window in Clapham, Bedford

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Sue Burne

Dimension: approx 6 x 4 feet

Shop: https://www.sueburne.com

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Laura Rivolta

Email:rivoltasupercooled@gmail.com

Title:In Bloom

Description: This piece contemplates a meadow in bloom as spring begins, washing away the frost of winter. When spring explodes and everything is dyed in color, it is a rebirth; it is a beginning, a new window into life

Contact: +5491158930142

Details: Drop out Bullseye Glass, hand cutting and polishing

Price: u$d 1200

Photo Credit: Laura Rivolta

Dimension: 18 x 24 cm

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:April Shelford

Email:aprilgracesnow@gmail.com

Title:Loaf Pan

Description: The name "Loaf Pan" plays with the idea of utility because I never meant the piece to be useful for baking banana bread or meatloaf. It was use-full to me, though, because it contained possibilities for experimenting with transparency and elasticity. It is useful to the viewer for thinking about those things, too—and perhaps the utility of looking itself.

Contact: April Shelford

Details: Fused Glass

Price: $300

Photo Credit: Pete Duvall

Dimension: 33.02cm (wide) x 15.24cm (high) x 12.7cm

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Katharine Coleman

Email:katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk

Title:Sea Dragons Vase

Description: A smoke grey overlaid clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Andy Potter, wheel and drill engraved 2025 with courting sea dragons. Its thick walls and its polished flat rim give the illusion of one vase sitting inside another, the magical effect of reflection and refraction. The inner vase reminded me of the painting of Goya's dog. It remains a vase engraved only on the outside.

Contact: Katharine Coleman

Details: Vase engraved with four sea dragons

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Agata Pec

Dimension: 16cmH x 8.8cmD

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Fanny Finchelman

Email:fannyfinchartglass@gmail.com

Title:Nili's Clock

Description: A glass clock made several years ago as a present for my daughter's wedding, using the glass magnets I had made as souvenirs for the wedding party

Contact: fannyfinchartglass@gmail.com

Details: Painted Fused Glass

Price: 0

Photo Credit: Fanny Finchelman

Dimension: d= 30cm

Shop: https://www.fannyfinchartglass.com/

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Negin Navabi

Email:neguinn@yahoo.com

Title:The sea

Description: The Sea

Made from recycled window glass — a material I describe as “as vast as the sea” in Iran. Created through self-taught experimentation, this deep blue piece reflects resourcefulness, history, and the potential for renewal in contemporary glass art.

Contact: Instagram:glassart_negin_navabi

Details: Fused glass technique

Price: 400$

Photo Credit: Kiana Ghassami

Dimension: H20×27×27cm

Shop: https://www.instagram.com/glassart_negin_navabi?igsh=N2ZmaW5wdjB3bGV3

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Joseph Cavalieri

Email:cavaglass@gmail.com

Title:eye candy dish

Description: The process is silk screened fused and slumped glass. This work combines an image of what some people consider the body beautiful, with the function of a shallow dish, silk screened text, and, as with most of my work, humor. I have sold a few versions using different color combinations, am teaching this in my next class at BerlinGlas, and they will be on sale at the gift shop at theCorning Museum.

Contact: joseph s cavalieri

Details: form, function, fun

Price: 50.00

Photo Credit: cavaglass.org

Dimension: 15 x 15 x 4

Shop: https://www.cavaglass.org/

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:William Popiel

Email:williampopiel@me.com

Title:Anomalous Chronometer

Description: This clock attempts to grasp the elusive tick of the universe. So the internal parts required to make a mechanical clock “tick” are a major element of this stained glass piece. All printed on two stacked layers of glass, making the mechanism three dimensional. The added wire work compliments the clock characters, and unifies the support system that suspends the clock.

Contact: williampopiel@me.com

Details: Stained glass clock

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: William Popiel

Dimension: 47cm w x 36cm h x 4cm d

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE
Imagine
Silver alchemy
The Parable of the Sower
In Bloom
Loaf Pan
Sea Dragons Vase
Nili's Clock
The sea
eye candy dish
Anomalous Chronometer

Artist:John A. Webster

Email:jwebgrey@gmail.com

Title:Imagine

Description: A multicolored neighbor hood on a hill. A title evoking a. song by John Lennon. A hill that has obviously been modified by mankind. The symbolism is intentional.
-Multiple colors fro the myriad differences in people
-Attached row houses indicating we live in a shared world
-Colors of glass flow and influence each other without mixing. As in life - we are all influenced by those around us

Contact: jwebgrey@gmail.com

Details: Kiln Cast Lead Crystal

Price: £ 16,000

Photo Credit: Dan Fox, Lumina Studios

Dimension: 24

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Elizabeth Taggart

Email:elizabeth@cuillin-glass.co.uk

Title:Silver alchemy

Description: Formed using the drop-out technique, Bullseye French Vanilla glass is shaped by gravity and heat, while silver foil reacts in the kiln to create unpredictable blue and brown surfaces. Standing 10 cm tall, the vases are both functional objects and records of chemical and physical change.

Contact: Elizabeth Taggart

Details: Fused glass drop vessels

Price: £200

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Taggart

Dimension: 10cm tall

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Sue Burne

Email:sueburneart@gmail.com

Title:The Parable of the Sower

Description: Internal, upper window in the parish church in Clapham, Bedfordshire. Engraved in 2015 when building work was done to create a room above a new vestry/kitchen. It needed to give light but privacy for when the room was in use. The Parable of the Sower was chosen by the congregation and they wanted an image of their own church with English fields and English flora and fauna in the design.

Contact: Sue Burne

Details: Church window in Clapham, Bedford

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Sue Burne

Dimension: approx 6 x 4 feet

Shop: https://www.sueburne.com

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Laura Rivolta

Email:rivoltasupercooled@gmail.com

Title:In Bloom

Description: This piece contemplates a meadow in bloom as spring begins, washing away the frost of winter. When spring explodes and everything is dyed in color, it is a rebirth; it is a beginning, a new window into life

Contact: +5491158930142

Details: Drop out Bullseye Glass, hand cutting and polishing

Price: u$d 1200

Photo Credit: Laura Rivolta

Dimension: 18 x 24 cm

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:April Shelford

Email:aprilgracesnow@gmail.com

Title:Loaf Pan

Description: The name "Loaf Pan" plays with the idea of utility because I never meant the piece to be useful for baking banana bread or meatloaf. It was use-full to me, though, because it contained possibilities for experimenting with transparency and elasticity. It is useful to the viewer for thinking about those things, too—and perhaps the utility of looking itself.

Contact: April Shelford

Details: Fused Glass

Price: $300

Photo Credit: Pete Duvall

Dimension: 33.02cm (wide) x 15.24cm (high) x 12.7cm

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Katharine Coleman

Email:katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk

Title:Sea Dragons Vase

Description: A smoke grey overlaid clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Andy Potter, wheel and drill engraved 2025 with courting sea dragons. Its thick walls and its polished flat rim give the illusion of one vase sitting inside another, the magical effect of reflection and refraction. The inner vase reminded me of the painting of Goya's dog. It remains a vase engraved only on the outside.

Contact: Katharine Coleman

Details: Vase engraved with four sea dragons

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Agata Pec

Dimension: 16cmH x 8.8cmD

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Fanny Finchelman

Email:fannyfinchartglass@gmail.com

Title:Nili's Clock

Description: A glass clock made several years ago as a present for my daughter's wedding, using the glass magnets I had made as souvenirs for the wedding party

Contact: fannyfinchartglass@gmail.com

Details: Painted Fused Glass

Price: 0

Photo Credit: Fanny Finchelman

Dimension: d= 30cm

Shop: https://www.fannyfinchartglass.com/

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Negin Navabi

Email:neguinn@yahoo.com

Title:The sea

Description: The Sea

Made from recycled window glass — a material I describe as “as vast as the sea” in Iran. Created through self-taught experimentation, this deep blue piece reflects resourcefulness, history, and the potential for renewal in contemporary glass art.

Contact: Instagram:glassart_negin_navabi

Details: Fused glass technique

Price: 400$

Photo Credit: Kiana Ghassami

Dimension: H20×27×27cm

Shop: https://www.instagram.com/glassart_negin_navabi?igsh=N2ZmaW5wdjB3bGV3

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:Joseph Cavalieri

Email:cavaglass@gmail.com

Title:eye candy dish

Description: The process is silk screened fused and slumped glass. This work combines an image of what some people consider the body beautiful, with the function of a shallow dish, silk screened text, and, as with most of my work, humor. I have sold a few versions using different color combinations, am teaching this in my next class at BerlinGlas, and they will be on sale at the gift shop at theCorning Museum.

Contact: joseph s cavalieri

Details: form, function, fun

Price: 50.00

Photo Credit: cavaglass.org

Dimension: 15 x 15 x 4

Shop: https://www.cavaglass.org/

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

Artist:William Popiel

Email:williampopiel@me.com

Title:Anomalous Chronometer

Description: This clock attempts to grasp the elusive tick of the universe. So the internal parts required to make a mechanical clock “tick” are a major element of this stained glass piece. All printed on two stacked layers of glass, making the mechanism three dimensional. The added wire work compliments the clock characters, and unifies the support system that suspends the clock.

Contact: williampopiel@me.com

Details: Stained glass clock

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: William Popiel

Dimension: 47cm w x 36cm h x 4cm d

TAKE PART IN NEXT EXHIBITION HERE

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