Phone:07798640456

Email:gavin@gavinthoms.com

Region:North East England

Country:United Kingdom

County:Durham

Gavin Thoms

Fused glass (aka kiln glass/warm glass). Based on the edge of the Durham moors, we like to experiment and innovate, producing small quantities of a lot of things. A big focus is woven. We also offer basic fused glass teaching. We love to share the workspace, engraving and coldworking equipment.

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).

weave platter

gaelic bee engraving , Chris Bruce (Consett in Focus)

cable knit

framed woven + dichro

crackle dropout

framed frilly weave