
Phone:07798640456
Email:gavin@gavinthoms.com
Region:North East England
Country:United Kingdom
County:Durham
Gavin Thoms
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
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gaelic bee engraving , Chris Bruce (Consett in Focus)
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cable knit

framed woven + dichro

crackle dropout

framed frilly weave