Currently exploring the use of wafers and developing my Pate de Verre skills as I love the versatility of glass powder.
Recent projects include work for Flow Exhibition – Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, and Earth/Sea/Sky Exhibition at London Glassblowing Gallery
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Recent projects include designing a stained glass panel for a farming family’s barn conversion in which I combined both traditional stained glass painting and staining techniques with fused glass and kiln carving. I make a range of small decorative products that include sun catchers, coasters and plates, along with larger art pieces. Recent commissions include stained glass style painted Christmas baubles, plates and wall plaques.
The UK was once the world capital of stained glass design, production and innovation. English Antique Glass is now the UK’s only remaining manufacturer of flat glass. An offshoot of one of the great 19th century Sunderland glassworks, English Antique Glass has decades of experience including hand-crafting stained glass panes for York Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and many of the country’s most exalted edifices.
Using artisanal techniques first developed in the twelfth century, English Antique Glass offers free blown glass- a highly skilled, labour and time-intensive process. Unlike homogenous mould-made glass, each piece is unique, with air bubbles and slight variations in design demonstrating the care and attention with which it is crafted. A new collection of handmade mouth-blown tableware and decorative accessories keeps traditional glassblowing alive, by bringing ancient skills to new audiences thanks to a renewed global interest in Britain’s manufacturing history.
The English Antique Glass collection includes a selection of reassuringly substantial glasses, paperweights, doorstops, vases, decanters and carafes in a palette of yellow, amber and turquoise. Finishes include clear as well as swirled or seedy, achievable only in hand-mixed, hand blown glass using specialised techniques. The result is a glassware range of the finest colour, clarity and brilliance.
I am currently producing glass installations for exhibitions/competitions, as well as producing decorative wall art on a range of themes that I will be submitting to galleries soon.
I am also producing three-dimensional social ceramic wares to fund my passion for glass and raise money for charities.
All my work is unique and hand-crafted by myself.
We live in a world that grows more complex and difficult to comprehend, with its tensions and temptations that pulls us in different directions. These conflicts provide ideas from which I create characters and situations and provide me with a constant source of material for my work. I devise surreal settings showing how we try to cope with the very limited and purely imagined space that we have created for ourselves.
Galleries who show my work
www.galerieduverre.com
www.etiennegallery.nl
www.habatat.com
www.londonglassblowing.com
https://www.galleryten.co.uk/
After a lengthy illness I am now(2013) returning to my professional practice. My inspiration is drawn, primarily, from Landscape and mans part in its manipulation. I use landscape and the Human condition as a metaphor in expressing concerns and observations on topical events, particularly those relating to the Environment and Politically inspired events. please watch this space for updates to portfolio and activity !!!