Visit Verity Pulford solo glass exhibition in Wales

White glass circular base supporting numerous highly delicate and detailed naturalistic and fantasy shapes inspired by the natural world and made from pate de verre glass and other glass techniques.

Exhibitions | 18-06-2026

Visit Verity Pulford solo glass exhibition in Wales

Verity Pulford’s solo exhibition, ‘Moss for a Bed’, opens on 4 July 2026 at Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales and runs until 20 September 2026.

A pair of delicate glass sculptures in black and white tones of Tippler's Bane mushrooms. — ‘Tippler’s Bane’ is a delicate rendition of a common mushroom.

Featuring a range of glassmaking techniques, Moss for a Bed takes its title and inspiration from the sense of comfort, peace, and connection that Verity finds in nature. The exhibition brings together a diverse body of work created with casting, alternative pâte de verre, fusing, painting, and etching. The works encompass both wall-based installations and sculpture, drawing inspiration from fungi, coral, seaweed and other botanical forms.

Delicate blue cast glass of coral . — Coral made from cast blue glass.

Alongside the glass pieces will be a series of hand-carved porcelain vessels paired with removable cast glass stoppers. The vessels are carved to create tactile surfaces that respond to natural textures. The glass stoppers are created through wax sculpting and burnout casting processes, forming a visual and material dialogue between the translucent and the opaque.

Collection of glass pieces representing fungi and other natural objects made in tones of white, grey and brown using pate de verre and other glass techniques. — ‘Textures of Coral in Grey’ shows Verity’s mastery of delicate glass techniques.

Also featured in the exhibition is the work that earned Verity the Gold Craft and Design Award at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2025. This includes wall pieces and cast bird skulls.

Throughout her practice, Verity explores ideas of magical realism, creating imagined forms inspired by, and often combining characteristics of, different plants, fungi and organisms. Through glass, she develops a personal visual language that blurs the boundaries between the natural and the fantastical.

The show will be held in Gallery 3 at Ruthin Craft Centre. The exhibition launches at 2pm on Saturday 4 July and Verity will present a talk about the work on the morning of 5 July.

The exhibition will be touring to Canfas in Cardigan and The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle.

There is free admission and free on-site parking. Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5.30pm.

Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, is at: Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB, Wales.

Glass sculptures inspired by nature in shapes of flowers and leaves in dark grey and white tones. — Detail of ‘Dark Treasures’.

Verity Pulford is based in Eryrys, North Wales. Her work is sold in leading galleries, exhibited internationally and collected by private and public institutions. She is a QEST Scholar, part of the Homo Faber Guide and member of the Guild of Makers of Wales. Verity has exhibited at Collect in London and the British Glass Biennale on several occasions.

She has been awarded Arts Council of Wales grants for three major projects and Wales Arts International funding for a residency at Pilchuck Art School in Seattle, USA. She also undertook a funded residency at North Lands Creative Glass Studio in Caithness.

Find out more about Verity in this CGS Glass Network digital interview and via her website www.veritypulford.com

Main image: Verity Pulford’s ‘For the Love of Small Things’. All photos: Stephen Heaton Photography.

18-06-2026