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Work has been completed in a variety of sizes from small suncatchers and seasonal decorations to door and window panels featuring sea scene with catamaran and trees. Some pieces are abstract, 3 dimensional for example table lamp built up from a large stone. Awkward shapes and sizes have an appeal.
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Cameo and gräal, along with multi-layered ‘hot’ surface decoration form the core of my technical repertoire, enabling tremendous scope for colour, shape and pattern.
My first pieces of Gräal were produced in 1988, using relatively simple patterns, which I drew by hand onto the surface of the glass and then carved through the layers of colour. I continued to develop this process, which leads to the refined and detailed designs that we continue to produce today. I introduced the use of 24ct gold and sterling silver leaf into my designs, the first collection of which was launched in 1992 in Harrods and Liberty of London with tremendous success.
In 1999, together with my wife Alison and our small team of highly skilled Artisans, we set up our leading-edge studio, located at the Coalport China Museum in the Ironbridge Gorge, World Heritage Site, which provides the perfect haven for us to continue our progression of combining innovation and technology with ancient craftsmanship, which provokes an exciting combination. Gallé, Carder and Tiffany were others who used science and technology in the development of their work. Without technology and creative drive, there is no innovation, coupled with a passion for sublime craftsmanship and total commitment in providing unique, high quality, competitively priced art glass with impeccable service.
A theme of Jon’s work throughout the years has been the synthesis of glass with metals. Light, colour and glass combined with, engineering, rust and corrosion.
On a different pathway, since 1995 Jon has been converging dichroic filters with glass, developing and evolving a body of work focusing on light and pure colour.
These two praxes of Jon’s artistic inquiry often merge in a single expression.
His commission work ranges from bespoke scent bottles to twenty metre high sculptural installations.
‘I interpret landscapes through exploration of material. I focus on rugged coastlines, looking at erosion as a spectacle of discovery and generation of form, revealing a sense of the history and movement of a place. The work is produced using my ‘Lost Ice Process.’ I use salt to sculpt a block of ice as a one-off ephemeral model to take a direct cast from. The textures this provides and the transient nature of the creative process reflects the erosion and sense of time I want to represent in the landscape. There is a roughness from the initial cast that is ground polished and refined to its final finish, revealing the internal structures of the glass and creating facets and flat planes to redefine the essence of the made against the organic surface.’
My practice is informed by the rich heritage of material imitation within the glass making industry. Utilising an extensive and innovative range of kiln-glass techniques, I make objects that are inherently un-glass-like, and instead mimic the physical properties of other materials. In doing so I aim to reassess the traditional perceptions of glass technically, aesthetically, and materially. With a practice that moves deftly between art, design and craft, I make sculptural and interior objects that transcend traditional boundaries, arouse curiosity, and moreover, challenge our comprehension of the material world.