Archives: Artists

I am currently working on a sculpture called “Take your trash home” which highlights the plight of pollution in our waters,

– Glass photography for artists and galleries
– Photography for the Just Glass book – “Brought to light”
– I’m a resident glass photographer at the Vessel Gallery

The vessels “Spring Enchantment”, “Spring’s Floral Embrace”, and “Spring Reverie” combine blown furnace glass with flame-worked borosilicate to contrast smooth transparency with delicate, opaque lampworked flowers. The hollow top adds an airy, ethereal quality, while the sculpted flowers, rich in intricate details, evoke the renewal and growth of spring. The blend of strong furnace glass and durable borosilicate flowers symbolises the balance between nature’s fragility and its strength, capturing the fresh, vibrant energy of the season.

Gavin retired as a doctor and swopped the focus and drama of the operating theatre for the alluring medium of warm glass. Themes in common include a passion for excellence, precision, science and tech and handling unpredictability.
New aspects include juggling myriad colours, light, inter-actions, intense heat and fragility.
Gavin got hooked on woven glass one freezing morning in February 2008, spotting a simple woven platter at the National Glass Centre shop, “I just had to master the technique!”
A few larger weave commissions are installed in UK and Greece, an out-of-studio workshop to create DIY weaves recently worked well. Smaller (mostly woven) items are in local galleries (Hexham and Consett).

Recent Projects on my CGS profile include: Surf – Reminding me of my love of swimming in the sea. Fossilized – Inspired by my memories of digging for treasure. Galaxy – As technology advances so the images of galaxies are evermore captivating. In this glass I have captured the radiance of varying elements within a pinwheel galaxy. Generations – A triptych of gravity vessels, parent, child and grandparent (elevated on a clear glass stand), their genetics are represented by the patterns. I explored the concept of age through the process of kiln forming each vessel, waste glass was recycled from the creation of one vessel to each subsequent vessel. The changes to the molecular characteristics of the glass that this recycling process induces could be said to ‘age’ the glass. The ‘Grandparent’ is elevated on a stand to represent the veneration of elders.

Drawing from both artistic and spiritual influences, Carla’s work invites viewers to experience glass not just as a material, but as an energy field—one that connects, reflects, and uplifts. Her art has been exhibited in Just Glass Exhibitions at International Festival of Glass and Morley Gallery, London, Prior Gallery Bristol in the New Beginnings and Freedom Exhibitions hosted by Catherine Dunstan and is a founding member of the UK Glass Art Collective exhibting in various exhibitions across the UK, inspiring others to see glass as a conduit for transformation.

I am currently exploring traditional painting on glass methods, in order to grow in that direction. Recent projects have seen me depicting local country scenes and creating further stained glass windows in my own home, reflecting countryside scenes around me.
My regular classes keep me busy in the encouragement and gentle guidance of my fellow local stained glass artists and watching them grow in confidence and skill is enormously rewarding.