My most recent work looks through an introspective lens and embodies her creative process that is influenced by ADHD. This body of work is built intuitively and impulsively and incorporates the use of metal fixings into the glass pieces. My creative process illustrates the behaviours of ADHD, visualising its complexity. My making process is fast, instinctive and curious, resulting in a visual map of her mind externalised and expressed in the installation. Ineffective yet functioning, The Machine is overly complex for its own actions, some routes having dead ends or unresolved pathways.
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I make all sorts of things, from windows and suncatchers, to jewellery and mosaics. I make because I love the colours, and the sparkle, and the essential.joy that creation brings. I’m rubbish at selling any of it, but I leave that most up to the amazing Rosie at the Makers Barn in Petworth – well worth a visit for so many other reasons, including ceramics, ironwork, wood crafts, paintings, decorative and functional items of every possible variety made by UK artists, all in one place!
Mandy has always been passionate about the arts and specialises in home décor, personalised gifts and jewellery with a particular interest in combining techniques and exploring texture with the aim to showcase her work at exhibitions and galleries. Sharing the joy of glass fusing with fellow glass artists and the community. Each piece is finished by hand up to the point before the firing takes place…the outcome is sometimes unexpected as the glass melts. Sometimes two or three firings are required.
Currently finishing off my third year of my BA studying glass, staying to study Masters at Sunderland. Making work in response to experimental volcanology research
“I draw inspiration from keen observation, creative exploration, and boundless imagination. I endeavour to capture nature’s ever-changing beauty by infusing form and composition with a rich colour palette. I create scenes that are both representational and from my imagination. Given Dartmoor’s vastness and its diverse seasonal and weather variations, there’s a joy in creating these imagined places, which could feasibly exist in a fleeting moment, and naming each pendant brings them to life. “
My work this year had been turned around the human condition with of figurative sculptures in cast glass forming the bulk of my practice.
During the last year I have discovered the joys and frustrations of working with glass. I am trying to combine both porcelain and glass to create sculptural pieces that capture both the strength and fragility of birds. I have been experimenting with how to adapt fused and pate de verre methods of working in a quest to create the perfect glass feather!
Jo works with various kiln formed glass processes, casting, fusing and bending glass into hand made moulds. She has worked on large scale commissions for commercial and private clients. Her personal work is inspired by the landscape and geological features around her, coastal areas, lakes and fells where she is often found swimming and running amongst them.
I began using domestic clear glass, then worked with glass blowers in cameo, graal and flashed glasses. Fusing opened new opportunities that I am still exploring. I’m leaning towards sculptures mixing glass with other materials as frames for flat panels in clear and thicker flash glass.