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I work mainly in warm glass exploring colour and form together with pattern, texture and chemical reactions. My vessels usually have different interiors and exteriors but a relationship between both is maintained. I have also worked in hot glass exploring the depth, patterns and shapes possible within a paperweight.

The image on the left is ‘Timeless: All Bar One’ which exemplifies automated and physical worlds, contrasting technology in the form of barcodes and identity, resting on a bog oak wooden plinth. It marries the new with the old with each medium displaying different facets of time.

In 2012, while very new to glass, Linda won the international Warm Glass Prize awarded by Bullseye Glass Company in USA, and in 2013 she won the Adrian Henri poetry in Art Prize for her sculpture, ‘Her House is Air’. She has gone on to be awarded a number of bursaries for her work in glass, these include awards from the Arts Council of Wales, a-n Artist’s Information Company, The Worshipful Company of Painters and Stainers of Glass and The Eaton Fund. She has exhibited her work in a number of exhibitions including The British Glass Biennale 2015 and 2017, London Glassblowing Gallery, The Waterfront Gallery, Swansea and, in 2019, Glasrijk Festival of Glass in The Netherlands. Last year, in celebration of International Women’s Day, Linda curated Never Done, an exhibition of work by women artists from Japan, New York, Shetland and UK. In 2016 Linda was invited to the American Glass Guild Conference in Florida to present her work and run a workshop. Linda has undertaken a number of site specific commissions including one for The Contemporary Art Society of Wales at Narberth Museum, and for Strata Florida Abbey in Ceredigion. In 2017 she formed an architectural glass partnership with Rachel Phillips and together they have completed commissions including making windows for Conwy and Beaumaris Castles in North Wales, and, in 2019 an installation of mirrored glass for The Church of St Michael and All Saints, Blewbury, Oxfordshire. Linda and Rachel have recently installed new work in Caernarfon Castle, North Wales. In 2024 Linda initiated the formation of Broken Home Collective, s group of women artists who work with glass and are committed to using their creative voices to illuminate social and political injustice.

Linda’s ‘Marbellous’ light shade was shown at the prestigious ‘New Glass – Ancient Skill, Contemporary Artform’ exhibition at Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House. This piece was made specifically to complement the Arts and Crafts surroundings of Blackwell. It uses the copper foil technique and contains over 700 individual pieces, including 1kg of marbles.

I specialise in kiln formed splashbacks for kitchens and bathrooms. Recent panels can be found on my website glassification.co.uk. I now offer courses in splashbacks both face to face in my workshop, and also online for those who can’t get down to Somerset.