Anne Notebaert is looking for the simple balance in nature, the beauty of the sea, the everyday things of life you meet everywhere without paying attention to them.
Her glasssware smells of the sea and touches the sky.
Her work comes from a fascination for sea acorns, little beauties on the beach. The first glassware was simple and poetic, later she tried to show a realistic image of seasponges.
Looking for new techniques and experimenting her work has become more abstract. So her work of art is more like a surprising, amazing creation. And this new emotion is not anymore related to the original marine animal. Only the astonishment of the first discovery lasts.
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My pieces are inspired by the sea, its forms and creatures combined with the human mind. Taking my pieces underwater helps develop ideas. Sculptures made using a kiln formed technique, often combined with porcelain.
Glass sculptures are my focus. Each piece goes through multiple steps that can include firings in the kiln, lamination and cold-working.
Making glass pieces gives me a chance to explore the fluid forms of glass and how colors react with each other. I enjoy the challenge melting or combining glass provides because it often has its own idea of where to go and how to behave.
Provenance studies of Portuguese Glasses.
Development of luminescent transparent glasses under UV light for application in artwork.
Development of red glasses with application in artwork.
Preparation of glasses using recipes from batch books of early 20th century.
Coordinated the organization of two exhibutions, one in Venice and another in Lisbon under the theme
glass and light (www.glass-light.org) – 2015-2016
White opaque glass without arsenic
Luminescent opaque glass
As a former knitwear designer, fusing allows me to create forms which have a textile, flowing quality. Sand casting gives me a deeper, more mysterious, alchemic medium to pour into layers, creating more primitive sculptural forms. My vessels express my previous textile background and love of patterns and colours, whilst in the more sculptural pieces I focus on emotions or moments trapped in time which the viewer can make their own.
I am a member of the Lunesdale Studio Trail which takes place annually in May/June and comprises 20 artists working in a variety of materials opening their studios to the public. I also take part in local craft fairs, sell my work at a number of outlets including the local tourist information centres, I undertake commissions and made the annual awards for The Lancashire Environment Fund for several years. I am available to run taster courses for groups such as GCSE students, libraries and artitsts groups.