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In her work Rebecca uses a range of surface decoration techniques to achieve complex and unique effects with an artist’s eye for detail. She is captivated by the ‘little and round’, enjoying the process of shaping her beads simply with heat and gravity.

Working with glass as my medium is always interesting. Using the lost wax technique I am able to create my own unique forms using wax giving me the capability to sculpt with the detail I require. Casting them in glass makes the forms permanent with the addition of vast range of colours, characteristics and textures that glass provides. I like to add found objects or other props to my work. Transforming them into a piece of art, changing their purpose and giving them a new lease of life. In doing so, I want my pieces of sculpture to tell their own stories. My objective is to inspire thought in the meaning and to make people smile!

Since the ‘educating Rhian’ & setting up the business. Goodhand Glass is now a limited company. We have expanded the business and taken a lot of our sales online. The business is now not just Rhian, but her Daughter Rebecca has joined to take over the day to day running. Also in the Studio Rhian has taken on a Fabulous up and coming artist, Beth.

A one day course that will teach you the key skills to make your own basic stained glass panel that day and prepare you for your first stained glass project. You will learn how to cut glass and lead, how to solder, cement and polish.

Courses are normally run on an individual basis but two people can be accommodated – so do it with a friend! They are held at my stained glass art studio on the side of Chapel Cain Brea Hill, just off the A30 near Sennen in the far west of Cornwall.

Glass blowing is now my primary glass practice having specialised in kiln cast glass sculptures; this is fitting, as it was glass blowing that inspired me to enter the field of glass in the first place. My glass blowing is a complete antithesis with the often obsession with perfection, repetition, and the overt display of technical ability for its own sake, or all three at the same time, that’s so prevalent in the area of glass. I like to embrace the unpredictability and chance that glass blowing can give while it’s a hot malleable medium. This helps to make each of my pieces unique and almost impossible to repeat – an antidote to the ‘digital’ and the factory made. I introduce bubbles as a means of highlighting the essential reflective quality of glass. Different coloured elements are suspended at different layers to enhance depth and a sculptural quality, and to indicate where there was once movement in its wrestled creation. The finished piece is a time capsule of when it was alive, in flux and a liquid form. I relish the tension & drama between what control and technical ability I have, and what the glass would prefer to do by its own accord!