I take my inspiration from the natural world to produce simple and beautiful designs, flowers, trees and oceans are all captured in my work. I am drawn more to 3D sculptural pieces as I enjoy the challenge of making something unique and the opportunity it offers to learn more about glass fusing as I go.
For my last ‘fun’ creation, the Poppy vitigraph bowl, I repurposed a small kiln to pull vitigraph and built up the bowl in layers with hand cut poppies to give it strength.
My current work involves making reusable casting moulds of leaves which when cast can then be incorporated into my work.
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My artwork is primarily stained glass in copper foil and lead came. My passion is working with clients to bring our ideas to life in a colourful, meaningful way.
I’d like to believe that we have the power to make today better than yesterday, to focus not on adversity, but what we will achieve in the future. Holding on to the part of you who sees a brighter tomorrow, your child-like perception of the world, informs the narrative of the representational compositions of my work. I primarily use flameworking and the lost wax casting technique to create my pieces.
Shoes: Storytellers of our Lives is a traveling exhibit of glass shoes accompanied with stories written by the shoe owners. These stories, translated into glass represent our common humanity. Like people, glass is both forgiving and easily shattered. It is sometimes clear, and other times opaque. It can allow us to see inside, or look outside. Glass is the perfect medium to translate this expression into an exhibit built out of empathy. The result of using the pâte de verre technique lends to an added feeling of fragility, another reminder of the importance of honoring and holding space for others.
My recent projects deeply relate to experimenting and finding new ways to express and re-invent myself as a curious, always renewing artist. At present I am exhibiting my art at Affordable Fair, New York, and at Paks Gallery, Vienna.
The traveling exhibition, Harvest Fruit Gathering with Rachael Woodman and commissions kept me busy during 2022 and 2023. I am currently making a number of sculptural pieces for the summer 2024 garden exhibitions and will be showing work at Hannah Peschar Sculpture Gardens, Fresh Air, Upton Castle Gardens and Doddington Hall. In between this work, we are setting up a new, sustainable studio and working on commissions. When time permits, I enjoy making bowls.
Through the combination of unique textured, opalescent, translucent and reclaimed glass, her pieces aim to recreate the beauty of the local environment and natural forms, and recapture memories of the lake district for her customers. Or with more contemporary designs, simply allow everyone to be able to appreciate the ‘art of light through glass’ in their own homes, be that as small ornaments and hangings through to larger windows and installations. She exhibits her work in a number of local art galleries within Cumbria, at artisan trade fairs around the region and is also an active member of the Eden Valley Artistic Network, Cumbria Arts & Culture Network, and the British Society of Master Glass Painters. As well as her fell and botanical collections, Kate welcomes bespoke commissions nationally and restoration work within the North of England.