Archives: Artists

We supply to many of Britiains University glass departments, including the likes of Sunderland, Wolverhampton, UCCA (Farnham) and Swansea Institute to name a few. Also some of the U.K.s top glass artists and companies, not forgetting many, many private artists. Many members of the C.G.S. are already customers. Our strength is our knowledge of the medium and our family company approach to customers.

I design vibrantly creative jewellery and glassware,that is hand made and exhibited in Great Britain.My quirky imagination can transform a walk into an exciting adventure, full of fun and design possibilities, which I use to inspire my work. I hope they convey my delight, enthusiasm and joy in expressing the world around me. I also conceive, design,manage and execute community projects and workshops.These have included, transformed, a project for homeless people. Larksong a six months community project to commemorate the first world war.

I have been trying to push the glass to its limits and making new experiments with it since I have started working with this medium.I think of wastes as an artistic material,the presence of something residual and processes of things that happened or have been.I recycle paper to make hand made paper and then I produce hand-made glass paper which I called it “Flexible glass sheet”which is simply paper,covered by glass frits and powder. I fold my one dimensional flexible glass sheet into three dimensional forms.Ppaer which is an organic material burns (death) and from its ashes my glass forms born The use of sand as molding material is also symbolically refers to the cycle of life and re-creation, re-generation and re generation. I try to express what different materials have in common or in contrast with each other and how they react when they are back to their origin. I use glass to explain the consistency, Fragility, mortality, immortality and subtleness of human being, life and the nature.

My work at present is focused on the concept that we are so genetically programmed to connect with nature that we experience satisfaction when we strip the seeds from a stem of grass.

Recent exhibitions include
Glisten and Shine: Glass. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford – Sept 2017-April 2018

Bradford Open 2019, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford Feb-May 2019

Sole Exhibition, Cliffe Caste Glasshouse, Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, March 2019

Saltaire Festival Open Gardens and Sculpture Trail Sept 2017, 2018 & 2019

I exclusively do cold work with float glass, using various techniques of etching, engraving, bevelling, polishing, colouring and bonding. Some of these I have developped myself. Every piece is unique.