The Superposition series are a selection of free-standing glass sculptures exploring the transparent nature of fused glass when each individual layer is placed upon another. These translucent, almost unreal sculptures look like they should be as light as a feather or as sweet as sugar. The interaction with light in both the inner and outer surface is delicately beautiful, at times reflecting the colours around the piece to channelling the light through the centre.
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Glass, a paradoxical material at the very basis of my research
Both transparent and opaque, fragile and Tough, stable and unstable… It is an amorphous material that could be considered a solid as much as a liquid.
My sculptures are designed to represent that flow of unstable material. They are forces in movement frozen into time and space like waves caught in the cold.
I like to give the illusion of a fixed time, a moment between what was (a shape in formation) and what will be (the imagination feeding from the blooming of the shape).
In my fused glass work, I use frit to create ephemeral, almost three-dimensional portraits. The glass is heated just long and hot enough to begin fusing, while retaining texture, depth, and a sense of movement. In my stained glass pieces, I work with the copper foil technique, which allows for fine detail, delicate lines, and complex shapes. I was selected as an artist for Mortal and Strong, a health campaign raising awareness of life-changing and life-limiting conditions, for which I created two large, striking black-and-gold portraits inspired by two of their “100 Voices.” I love recreating suffragettes in glass, using their signature colours of white, purple, and green to honour their strength, resilience, and legacy.
I take much of my inspiration from the vibrancy, colour and textures of the natural world.
Having reacently found the elusive process for creating organic vessel forms in a kiln, I am now on the start of a journey into translating my process of creating textured panels into a vessel shape. Interpreting the lanscapes around me into colourations within my nature based forms. Embracing the serendipitous nature of colour control to create wonderful one off sculptures. 2023 is going to be an exciting voyage of discovery.
I use drawing, hand cut stencil techniques and sand carving to create one off pieces of glass art. Blown by Colin Hawkins, my vessels and forms are made from Crystal with either colour overlays or blown colour. Much of my current work is made to commission or for exhibition