Archives: Artists

I make work about the cycle of nature using kiln cast glass and hot manipulation.

.Most of the glass work I have done so far has been for architectural site specific commissions. All ten windows in a church in Canada, a window in Belfast City Hall, commissioned by D.H.S.S.,a glass and stainless steel sculpture in Musgrave Park Hospital, In Norfolk I have completed 3 large sculpture commissions in Mundesley, Holt Country Park and Kelling Heath.

Joanna elegantly fuses ancient techniques with her individual and powerfully charged contemporary abstract style and enjoys translating a drawn image into glass, using paint stains and sandblasting to create areas where light will play and dance with texture.
She is currently working on 3 very different windows and doors for French houses.
And runs courses in stained glass and fused glass.

Most recent lead work was two windows in a Cornish church, next to three by William Morris… No pressure! I am presently involved with a community project beach shelter in Scilly, using tansfer- illustrated fused glass in sapele frame.
New studio work includes mini leaded panels and even smaller fused glass framed “postcards.”

I am making a 3D glass tusk for a metal elephant head and working on a large seascape stained glass window

Recent projects have been my series of small transparent, highly polished, cast shapes with dichroic veiling inside them, entitled ‘Aurora Borealis’, cast bowls & fused glass crystal edged bowls. I have also been experimenting with chemical reactions in glass.

We have built up our contemporary glass collection by David swapping work with other international artists and buying smaller pieces from exhibitions.
We also have an extensive 20th century British made glass collection, including Stewart’s Webb’s and Monart glass.