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Glass throwing, glass painting and glass sculpting, páte de verre, mould making, slumping, kiln casting
Recent projects include a wedding dress created from clear fine frit using various pate de verre and casting techniques, based on research into the appropriation of fairy tales by the Government as well as commercialisation to sell often unrealistic aspirations.
Other work involves casting of real flowers and CAD design and waterjet cutting images of fauna.
Recently I have majored on wildlife panels, giving equal attention to the environment as to the wildlife itself and exploring relationships within this context
I am Derya. I have been working as a Glass and Silver Designer for many years. I have been involved in different fields of glass and Silver design, making unique and contemporary products. As working under Derya Glass Design Brand, I have been producing handmade jewelry and glass design. Glass items have been merged with sterling silver, natural stone, and various accessories in order to obtain unique jewelry.
As i like experimenting, I will often be out and about and notice something of interest and immediately wonder if it can be made in glass – and set about trying often with excellent results.
Despite Covid I have taken part in three exhibitions at Dove Gallery, Winchcombe, near Cheltenham in the past 12 months.
KILN FUSED GLASS: Landscapes, Jewellery, Objects
Fused glass, with its ephemeral, magical, alchemical properties seems the perfect medium to reflect the space and beauty of the environment and the body.
Glass is a mysterious substance though – it feels solid but is breakable; it’s fragile but can do damage; it protects but also reveals; it can be coloured and transformed but maintains its integrity.
PORTRAITS: Paintings, Memorial and Celebratory Images
My degree show focussed on painted portraits of older people on canvas, as well as experimenting with transferring and fusing copies of these images onto glass to produce memorial and celebratory objects.
This led me to a more explicitly personal exploration of the changes my mother and I have experienced over the years, as a visual story in a series of Mother Daughter lightboxes. These map universal themes of aging, leaving home, memories…
I now live in Cambridge UK, enjoying life as a visual artist, reflecting on life’s surprises, playing the violin, learning the mandolin and ambling in the countryside with friends.