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I make beautiful unique fused glass, dichroic glass jewellery, bowls and home decor.
I mainly sell via Etsy and via social media. I do attend craft fairs regularly also.

In 2022/3 my primary focus has been on creating wall light panels to display the glass to its best advantage. The light is intended not only to light the piece, but also the wall it’s mounted on.

Working mainly with kiln-formed bullseye, opaque and transparent glass, I use the techniques of fusing, slumping, draping and sandblasting the glass to create the bold outlines and contrasting colours that define my style.
at present my work is in the applied arts scotland exhibition in Edinburgh .

Rachel is a member of UK Glass Art Collective, a group of 14 glass artists who have held exhibitions at CAN Coalville and Prior Bristol in 2024, and will be exhibiting at Ferrers Gallery, Ashby de la Zouch, and Prema Art Arts Centre, Uley in 2025.
Rachel exhibited at the CGS ‘Thanks for the Memory’ exhibition IFOG 2024; and in the past has taken part the Caerbladon Gallery ‘Round these Parts’ exhibition, the Malmesbury High Street Gallery exhibition, the New Beginnings Exhibition at Prior Gallery, Bristol, Sherston Arts Festival and CGS Bordering on the Herbaceous online exhibition.

My family is from Norway. My father was a fisherman. My grandfather was a fisherman. My other grandfather was a boat builder. Upon the death of my parents, I made a boat for their ashes and buried them at sea, something like a contemporary Viking funeral. I also made a boat for my best friend and former partner of 24 years, again burying them at sea. For me, the boat is meant to symbolize the voyage or journey, perhaps it is the voyage to the other side or the journey into the unknown. These deaths were extremely tragic. My best friend died of AIDS, my father committed suicide, my mother fell apart emotionally and physically and my former partner from alcoholism. What I am attempting to do is to take something that was tragic in my life and turn it into something beautiful.

I am currently beginning a study of Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Art Forms in Nature’ (1904) in relation to cellular photographs of cancer cells. Acknowledging the glass art legacy of Haeckel’s illustrations and their influence on Dutch proponents of the Art Nouveau movement, I propose to complement my intuitive response in glass with reference to the leaded-glass work of Willem Bogtman, relief sculptural decoration by Michel de Klerk and the graphic design examples of Theo Nieuwenhuis, located in the Scheepvaarthuis, Amsterdam.

Rachael’s work draws inspiration from the intricate structural patterns found in nature which govern their growth and determine their final shape. Exploring the organic shapes and patterns found in microscopic plant cells, her work is formed intuitively, from many pieces of glass, repeating, expanding, to create a flowing form, reflecting the movement of organic growth. Fascinated by the complexity of working with glass, Rachael is currently exploring the alchemy of chemical reactions within the glass fusing process.