Email:dawnathomas@btinternet.com

Region:South East England

Technique:Casting, Painting

Occupation:Artist, Student

Discipline:Decorative, Fine art, Jewellery

Areas of Interest:Education, Exhibition, Workshops

Country:United Kingdom


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Dawn A Thomas

I am a mixed media artist working with material-based, handmade practices, specialising in fused, cast, and painted glass, alongside my first love watercolour. My work is informed by a broader focus on sustainability and more recently the continuation of craft skills, particularly within heritage and endangered practices. More recently I have experimented in Stained Glass.

Since the 2nd place Design prize awarded for my first ever Stained Glass windowed – at the prestigious Worshipful Company of Glaziers annual Stevens Competition, in 2022 I have continued with some stained glass pieces, alongside fused glass and watercolours. I have shifted my focus further towards involvement in sustaining Endangered Heritage Crafts. Stained Glass now occupies the unenviable position on this list.
Drawing on extensive research for previous works and submissions, this worrying situation and my wider background in real sustainability, I have been moved to “take action myself”….. to this end I am now currently working on a long held desire to curate an exhibition showcasing handmade crafts using various natural materials, some of which are now endangered crafts. I will be providing the Stained and Fused Glass input at the exhibition which is planned for early Feb to early April 2027. ( the first available date in the Maidstone Museums busy schedule ). Further details will follow in due course. Prior to this, my most recent works have been glass garden sculptures which have been exhibited at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show in International Year of Glass 2022, and The Sussex Prairie Garden 2023, in a sculpture trail curated by Gaby Argent. The latter work comprised three glass ‘Windows on the World’ mounted in a bespoke rustic oak frame, secured in metal stand to my design specifications. This piece was subsequently exhibited at the first ever sculpture trail at Monkton’s Nature Reserve, Kent 2024 ( where all works were made from sustainable, natural materials ). My piece was selected to showcase the exhibition, featuring in the Ramsgate Recorder with articles about the sculpture trail artists/artworks and the wider nature reserves community, educational and outreach work