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Strattman Design is a leading innovator in glass lighting technologies, creating kinetic plasma displays for museums, tradeshows, industry and arts for over 30 years. We supply the world’s largest plasma globes to science museums worldwide, and produce unique creative lighting displays with flameworked borosilicate glass, inert rare gases and electricity.
I produce smaller fused pieces, mostly inspired by the natural world, and do take bespoke orders for these.
I also design and make stained glass panels, by fusing powdered and painted pieces before leading them together, and enjoy working on commissions.
I make expressive glass pieces that have a painterly quality to them. Inclusions of metal leaf and wire enable me to ‘draw’ within the glass. Much of my work involves repeated images and pattern making drawn from observation of the world around me.
Celestial bodies in space, the aurora borealis in the night sky, and the topography of the earth… Geoscience and the world of space has always evoked my curiosity. ‘How would it be formed?’ This question fascinates me in the moments when materials are being shaped and coloured.
My work changes according to various factors such as the concentration, temperature, direction, and angle of the materials. It resembles the world of space and earth sciences, where every element affects one another. Expectations are possible but not accurately predicted.
The process of imagining beyond the landscape and at the same time capturing the moments of reaction between materials evokes the feeling of showing a huge universe through a small lens. Clear glass works as a magnifying lens enabling us to observe closely – microscopically replacing a macro object with an object in front of us.
Focusing on energies acting upon materials, provides a spontaneous working method and creative mindset. An exploration into the phenomena of material allows the material itself to create its own narrative. This opens up diverse interpretations from viewers and evokes their curiosity in turn.