Current Exhibition

“Making Marks” Exhibition – an invitation from CGS to the Guild of Glass Engravers

Current Exhibition

“Making Marks” Exhibition – an invitation from CGS to the Guild of Glass Engravers

The Contemporary Glass Society invited members of the Guild of Glass Engravers to take part in an online selected exhibition to run from 4th March 2024. 

The show, entitled “Making Marks” was an opportunity to highlight the amazing skills required to create the beauty of engraved glass.This is part of CGS’s annual programme of 2 month long online exhibitions which are also selling exhibitions.  CGS was delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Guild of Glass Engravers on this show. Work was selected by Trustees of both organisations and by our joint Patron, Mark Holford.  Exhibition opening                   4th MarchMeet the Makers event            24th April There will be a Zoom online “Meet the Maker” event on 24th April where participants in the show will be invited to talk briefly about their work and their piece in particular. It is an opportunity for GGE members to highlight their work and explain the fascinating details of engraving techniques.

To find out more about the Guild of Glass Engravers visit www.gge.org.uk

 

 

Launched on:4th March 2024



Living Underneath
Fetch
King Charles III Coronation
Roman Tile Tower Blocks
Napoleonic wall #2 Moray firthhc wall #2 Moray firth
Bottlenose Dolphin
Autumn Leaves
DRAGONFLY BLUE
African scene
Nobody knows what the problem really is (JIMAN)
God Save King Charles III 2023
Fragility
Childhood Memories
Jabberwocky Mother
In the Invisible Places
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
The Race
Himeji Castle
Jugful of Fish
Mercy
Xanadu
Duet
Dunstanburgh
Red List
Bezhin Meadow
Fracture
Giraffe Helix
Horse's Head

Artist:Rob Page

Email:robert.page130@googlemail.com

Title:Living Underneath

Description: This engraving, on a light blue plate, shows a baby shark with its cleaner wrasse. The wrasse live underneath the shark but they all live underneath the surfer who is blissfully unaware.
Membership level: Craft

Details: Drill engraved with some rudimentary stipple on the waves

Price: £79

Dimension: 200mm diameter

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Artist:Alix Costin

Email:alix.costin@sky.com

Title:Fetch

Description: My piece ‘Fetch’ is inspired by walks in my local park. Whilst on these walks I play fetch with my dog and collect foliage I find on the ground, which I then take home to draw from in order to create an illustrated log; like a foliage map of the park. ‘Fetch’ reflects the social areas which people use every day, and that we all take for granted.

Membership level: Student

Contact: alix.costin.illustration.glass@gmail.com

Details: Two handblown and stacked vases which have been hand engraved

Price: N/A

Photo Credit: Nigel Essex

Dimension: 217mm x 183mm

Shop: https://www.instagram.com/alix.costin.illustration.glass/

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Artist:Lesley Pyke

Email:glass@lesleypyke.com

Title:King Charles III Coronation

Description: Unique commemorative John Jenkins chalice, which I have engraved with the official Royal arms and wording received from the office of the Garter King of Arms, London.
Membership level: Craft

Contact: Lesley Pyke

Details: Crystal chalice, hand engraved (drill) and sandblasted on body and base.

Price: £1900.00

Photo Credit: Lesley Pyke

Dimension: 23cm x 11cm

Shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1620990201/king-charles-iii-coronation-crystal

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Artist:Katharine Coleman

Email:katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk

Title:Roman Tile Tower Blocks

Description: 15cm high x 8cm diameter grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter, wheel cut 2023. The pattern was inspired by a Roman floor tile design seen in the Vatican Museums, where each tile was rectangular with one corner cut away, nesting together like a Y.

Membership level: Craft

Contact: Katharine Coleman

Details: Grey overlaid engraved vase

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: K Coleman

Dimension: 15cm H x 8cm D

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Artist:Deborah MacDonald

Email:solusbeag76@googlemail.com

Title:Napoleonic wall #2 Moray firthhc wall #2 Moray firth

Description: Believed to have been built by French prisoners of war a couple of years after the battle of Waterloo.

Situated on the Tarbat Ness peninsula near the village of Hilton it provides a little punctuation in the vast, open landscape, an opportunity to stop and think whilst others may rush past unaware of its fascinating history.

Mounted on a granite base ,30x20cm, sympathetically highlighted with enamel paints this work is 80cm x26cm on 6mm thick glass with the addition of black backing glass (4mm) to enhance viewing.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: Contact : 07369258272

Details: Hand engraved using rotary drill and various dimond points

Price: £ 2850

Photo Credit: Barry Grove

Dimension: 80cm x26cm on 6mm thick glass with the addition of black backing glass (4mm)

Shop: Instagram: Deborah.MacDonald.glass.artist

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Artist:Cecile Derel

Email:cecile@cecilederel.com

Title:Bottlenose Dolphin

Description: Utilizing a handheld rotary tool with a variety of diamond, stone and rubber burs, I hand engraved this optic crystal sculpture with a Bottlenose Dolphin. The dolphin is intaglio engraved on the backside of the crystal sculpture.
Membership level: Lay

Details: Optic crystal sculpture hand engraved using the drill technique.

Price: $395

Dimension: 6

Shop: www.cecilederel.com

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Artist:Janice Denley

Email:janice.denley@icloud.com

Title:Autumn Leaves

Description: Whilst walking my dogs one lovely Autumn morning, I was walking through some beautiful leaves, I thought it woud be lovely to capture the image of them on glass. I photocopied the leaves and then arranged them around a glass plate. I outlined them and then engraved them on the underside, to keep the smooth surface on top. I put light and shade into the leaves using diamond burrs, green and white stones and a selection of rubbers. I added the insect as when I was collecting the leaves, I disturbed a little beetle.
Membership level: Craft

Details: Electric Hand drill, burrs and rubbers

Price: £70

Dimension: 27cms diameter, 5cm height

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Artist:Greg Dietrich

Email:greg@cozumelglassart.com

Title:DRAGONFLY BLUE

Description: I blew the glass with cobalt blue on the outside, copper blue on the inside. I then engraved the cobalt layer with diamond wheels, and also textured the non-cobalt blue surface with diamond wheels.
Membership level: Craft

Details: CAMEO ENGRAVED BLOWN GLASS

Price: Not for Sale

Dimension: 8

Shop: www.cozumelglassart.com Instagram: greg.galeria.azul

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Artist:Rosie Campbell

Email:rosie@rosiesglass.co.uk

Title:African scene

Description: This is the largest piece of work I have done to date. I am passionate about Africa and it’s wildlife having been fortunate enough to live there. I am a self taught glass engraver , and a member of the Northern Branch guild . I mostly work on commissions but when I have I get inspiration from outdoors and love to create a wildlife scene.
Membership level: Craft

Contact: Rosie Campbell (Rosie’s Glass) Redlairdston Buchlyvie FK8 3PA 07723 052148 01360 850301

Details: Hand engraved drill

Dimension: Large Hurricane Lamp 40.5cm tall

Shop: www.rosiesglass.co.uk

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Artist:Suh MoonJu

Email:monicarhapsody@outlook.com

Title:Nobody knows what the problem really is (JIMAN)

Description: I express both playfulness as well as other contrasting emotional states through my glass work, by using a kitschy aesthetic, which is inspired by the sub-culture of adults playing with and collecting toys (Kidult toy culture).
The glass doll ‘JIMAN’ in my artwork ‘Nobody knows what the problem really is’ visualises my hidden emotions that are caused by social pressure and microaggression from everyday interactions in the UK as an Asian minority female.
The glass dolls has its name. By giving the specific name, I wish my glass art dealing with dark content would ultimately approach viewers feel joyful and bright. The images on each glass of the doll are hand-cut onto vinyl, sandblasted and then finally engraved.
Membership level: Student

Details: Swedish Colour Overlay (Graal). Engraving, sandblasting, cutting

Dimension: 26 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm

Shop: Instagram: @playful_temperature

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Artist:Herbert Davies

Email:hdavies21@btinternet.com

Title:God Save King Charles III 2023

Description: Vase etched with the wording "God Save King Charles III 2023 " and illustrated with two angles and a tumentosa rose.

Membership level: Craft

Contact: Contact: 01749 672635

Price: Price (might inc 50% gallery mark up): £75

Dimension: 25 h x 14.5 w/d cm

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Artist:Claudia Phipps

Email:info@claudiaphipps.co.uk

Title:Fragility

Description: I have been fascinated by x-rays since I was a sick child in hospital. To create this piece I used overlaid imagery from multiple x-rays exploring the mystery of seeing the internal body from outside. I combined the blue reminiscent of x-rays with red suggesting danger and disturbance.

Contact: 07903134977

Details: Diamond wheel engraved flashed glass

Price: £500

Photo Credit: Claudia Phipps

Dimension: 400 mm diameter

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Artist:Pete Lightowler

Email:peteandheff@gmail.com

Title:Childhood Memories

Description: My engraving is a celebration of the good times about being a child. I chose the wording because the meaning can be interpreted in more than one way. It was an unusual and challenging piece of glass to work with because the prominent centre dome needed to be integral to the design. The research into the design was a lot of fun too. I’d forgotten just how many different ways children enjoy playing.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: Pete Lightowler

Details: Engraved with a micromotor, using combination of burs, including diamond, stone and polishers.

Price: £160

Photo Credit: Heather Lightowler

Dimension: 390 mm diameter

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Artist:Nicholas Rutherford

Email:rutherfordn@aol.com

Title:Jabberwocky Mother

Description: Jabberwocky is derived from the Grendel saga & the Lambton folk worm song
"(S)He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob, An greet big goggly eyes".

A knight stands poised in an old courtyard. She is coiled around a tree with some eggs in a tree stump. Defending them from the vain glory hunter.

Technique; Flexible drive and sand blast.

Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Nicholas Rutherford

Details: Crystal cube; Flexible drive

Price: Sold

Photo Credit: Self

Dimension: 7cm x 7cm

Shop: 4 Linksway, Holders Hill Road, London NW4 1JR

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Artist:Tracey Sheppard

Email:tracey@traceysheppard.co.uk

Title:In the Invisible Places

Description: Inspired by three lines from Alice Oswald’s poem ‘Ideogram for Green’.

‘In the invisible places Where the first leaves start Green breathes growth’

Reassuring words expressing hope, the magic of nature and the promise of new beginnings.

Most of the engraving is on the underside with the central sprig of blossom, and the curl of a root on the top surface.

The two colours of this asymmetric piece seemed to be a perfect fit for the inscription. The earthy brown mystery of the rim and the lush green of the centre.

Membership level: Fellow

Contact: 10 King Alfred Place, Hyde, Winchester, SO23 7DF.

Details: Drill engraved

Price: £1,850

Dimension: 33 cm long, 26.5 cm wide and 10 cm high.

Shop: Instagram: tracey.sheppard_ www.traceysheppard.co.uk

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Artist:Peter Cummings

Email:glasspeter9@bigpond.com

Title:Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Description: I have begun fusing coloured to clear layers to make a deeper flashed glass panel to engrave through the colour. This allows me to get a shading and look of depth for my characters.
I like to tell stories about the people I see around me, and their interactions.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: glasspeter9@bigpond.com

Details: System 96 violet fused to clear. Diamond wheel engraved. Stand fabricated

Price: $550.Australian plus postage.

Photo Credit: Peter Cummings

Dimension: 21 cm H x 11 cm w x 6 cm deep

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Artist:Sandra Snaddon

Email:sandrasnaddon@yahoo.co.uk

Title:The Race

Description: A cycling race with the cyclists following each other, they jostle to overtake each other. BUT they come up on a grandma and her granddaughter slowly cycling on their basic bikes, slowing the race down.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Contact – 01748 812062

Details: Mainly engraved with Diamond burrs and green stones of various sizes, Detail done with rats tail and very small ball

Price: £800

Dimension: W 160cm H 180cm

Shop: www.snaddon.com/glass

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Artist:Dominic Fonde

Email:dominicfondeglass@gmail.com

Title:Himeji Castle

Description: Stipple engraved image Himeji Castle in Japan on lens of a 100yen Magnifying glass. Mounted in a wooden frame.

Contact: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com

Details: Stipple engraved image on magnifying glass lens

Price: £350

Dimension: Dimensions of Frame 20cm x 27 cm. Magnifying glass Lens 9.5cm diameter.

Shop: https://www.dominicfonde.com

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Artist: Elizabeth Crossley

Email:lizziexley@aol.com

Title:Jugful of Fish

Description: Hand engraved with burrs

Membership level: Lay

Price: £50+ p&p

Dimension: 8.5” high

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Artist:Christine Hook

Email:christine@barkus.co.uk

Title:Mercy

Description: Bowl engraved with lettering in the style of David Jones with a quotation from 'The Merchant on Venice' by William Shakespeare, 1598, : ’The quality of mercy is not strain’d. It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.’ The quotation was brought to mind by the gentle ripples in this glass bowl.
Membership level: Lay

Contact: H: 01403 891583. M: 07786 854952

Details: Drill engraved lead crystal

Price: £480

Dimension: 21cm diameter

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Artist:Sue Burne

Email:sueburneart@gmail.com

Title:Xanadu

Description: Inspired by the unfinished Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan, this vase is decorated with opium poppies on one side (the poet was medicated with laudanum and believed to have written it after a dream). Other imagery comes from descriptive passages in the poem plus Chinese and Mongolian motifs. There are the Khan's hunting leopards and a tortoise that might have been in the finished poem.

Membership level: Associate Fellow

Contact: Sue Burne

Details: Vase blown by Sonja Klingler with amethyst and turquoise overlays Ht 23cm

Price: £2500

Photo Credit: Sue Burne

Dimension: Ht 23cm

Shop: https://www.sueburne.com

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Artist:Junko Eager

Email:junkoeager@yahoo.co.uk

Title:Duet

Description: A human hand and cat's paws are engraved on transparent Schott optical crystal glass sheet.
It is placed over fused glass keyboard. They are set in a piano shaped display box.
Membership level: Associate Fellow

Contact: 0755737 4578

Details: Fused glass, and diamond & copper wheel engraving

Price: £1200

Photo Credit: Pierre Guillemin

Dimension: 38 x 21 x 15 cm

Shop: http://www.junkoeager.co.uk

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Artist:Geoff Thwaites

Email:grthwaites@hotmail.com

Title:Dunstanburgh

Description: Carved, fused and drill engraved glass.

Membership level: Fellow

Details: Glass plaque

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Geoff Thwaites

Dimension: 21 cm

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Artist:Alison Kinnaird

Email:alisonkinnaird@gmail.com

Title:Red List

Description: Wheel Engraving has recently been put on the Red List of Endangered Heritage Crafts. The panel shows myself engraving, surrounded by representations of other endangered crafts, such as Shetland Lace Knitting, Horse hair weaving and glass eye making.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Alison Kinnaird 07970 898926

Details: Lit Panel - Wheel and Sandblast Engraved LED Lighting

Price: £3125.00

Photo Credit: Shannon Tofts

Dimension: 45cm (h) 26cm (w) 10cm (d)

Shop: https://www.alisonkinnaird.com

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Artist:James Dennison-Pender

Email:james@glassengrave.co.uk

Title:Bezhin Meadow

Description: The engraving is based on the short story from The Hunting Sketches by the
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, published in 1852. The hunter comes across a group
of boys from the village who have come to spend the night in the meadow guarding
the horses. He listens to them as they scare each other by telling ghost stories. It
is not an exact illustration of the story, which takes place entirely at night. The
engraving shows six boys, each one modelled on one of the engraver’s grandsons.
In the original story there are only five boys.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Glenbrook House, Balerno, Midlothian EH14 7BQ Tel; 0131 449 4116 Mobile 07751 282247

Price: £1,200.00

Dimension: Dimensions (with stand) Height 33cm Width 29cm Depth 10cm

Shop: www.glassengrave.co.uk

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Artist:Linda Norris

Email:linda@linda-norris.com

Title:Fracture

Description: Fracture is part of a series of work I am developing about domestic violence.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: linda@linda-norris.com

Details: Sandblasted image on waterjet cut float glass, wooden spoon

Price: £300

Photo Credit: Linda Norris

Dimension: 30x25x1

Shop: https://linda-norris.com/product/fracture/

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Artist:Kathryn Kyne

Email:katekyne@talktalk.net

Title:Giraffe Helix

Description: Cylindrical handblown vase

Membership level: Craft

Contact: 40cm x 12cm x 12cm

Details: Drill with stone and diamond burrs

Price: £350

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Artist:Lilian Cooper

Email:liliantony@talktalk.net

Title:Horse's Head

Description: Hand engraved on a 12" glass plate using a Marathon drill. I used diamond burrs with green stones to refine, then shaded with green and Arkansas stones. Finally I used pencil rubbers for the darker detailing.
Membership level: Lay

Details: Hand engraved

Price: Not for sale

Dimension: 12

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Living Underneath
Fetch
King Charles III Coronation
Roman Tile Tower Blocks
Napoleonic wall #2 Moray firthhc wall #2 Moray firth
Bottlenose Dolphin
Autumn Leaves
DRAGONFLY BLUE
African scene
Nobody knows what the problem really is (JIMAN)
God Save King Charles III 2023
Fragility
Childhood Memories
Jabberwocky Mother
In the Invisible Places
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
The Race
Himeji Castle
Jugful of Fish
Mercy
Xanadu
Duet
Dunstanburgh
Red List
Bezhin Meadow
Fracture
Giraffe Helix
Horse's Head

Artist:Rob Page

Email:robert.page130@googlemail.com

Title:Living Underneath

Description: This engraving, on a light blue plate, shows a baby shark with its cleaner wrasse. The wrasse live underneath the shark but they all live underneath the surfer who is blissfully unaware.
Membership level: Craft

Details: Drill engraved with some rudimentary stipple on the waves

Price: £79

Dimension: 200mm diameter

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Artist:Alix Costin

Email:alix.costin@sky.com

Title:Fetch

Description: My piece ‘Fetch’ is inspired by walks in my local park. Whilst on these walks I play fetch with my dog and collect foliage I find on the ground, which I then take home to draw from in order to create an illustrated log; like a foliage map of the park. ‘Fetch’ reflects the social areas which people use every day, and that we all take for granted.

Membership level: Student

Contact: alix.costin.illustration.glass@gmail.com

Details: Two handblown and stacked vases which have been hand engraved

Price: N/A

Photo Credit: Nigel Essex

Dimension: 217mm x 183mm

Shop: https://www.instagram.com/alix.costin.illustration.glass/

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Artist:Lesley Pyke

Email:glass@lesleypyke.com

Title:King Charles III Coronation

Description: Unique commemorative John Jenkins chalice, which I have engraved with the official Royal arms and wording received from the office of the Garter King of Arms, London.
Membership level: Craft

Contact: Lesley Pyke

Details: Crystal chalice, hand engraved (drill) and sandblasted on body and base.

Price: £1900.00

Photo Credit: Lesley Pyke

Dimension: 23cm x 11cm

Shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1620990201/king-charles-iii-coronation-crystal

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Artist:Katharine Coleman

Email:katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk

Title:Roman Tile Tower Blocks

Description: 15cm high x 8cm diameter grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter, wheel cut 2023. The pattern was inspired by a Roman floor tile design seen in the Vatican Museums, where each tile was rectangular with one corner cut away, nesting together like a Y.

Membership level: Craft

Contact: Katharine Coleman

Details: Grey overlaid engraved vase

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: K Coleman

Dimension: 15cm H x 8cm D

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Artist:Deborah MacDonald

Email:solusbeag76@googlemail.com

Title:Napoleonic wall #2 Moray firthhc wall #2 Moray firth

Description: Believed to have been built by French prisoners of war a couple of years after the battle of Waterloo.

Situated on the Tarbat Ness peninsula near the village of Hilton it provides a little punctuation in the vast, open landscape, an opportunity to stop and think whilst others may rush past unaware of its fascinating history.

Mounted on a granite base ,30x20cm, sympathetically highlighted with enamel paints this work is 80cm x26cm on 6mm thick glass with the addition of black backing glass (4mm) to enhance viewing.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: Contact : 07369258272

Details: Hand engraved using rotary drill and various dimond points

Price: £ 2850

Photo Credit: Barry Grove

Dimension: 80cm x26cm on 6mm thick glass with the addition of black backing glass (4mm)

Shop: Instagram: Deborah.MacDonald.glass.artist

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Artist:Cecile Derel

Email:cecile@cecilederel.com

Title:Bottlenose Dolphin

Description: Utilizing a handheld rotary tool with a variety of diamond, stone and rubber burs, I hand engraved this optic crystal sculpture with a Bottlenose Dolphin. The dolphin is intaglio engraved on the backside of the crystal sculpture.
Membership level: Lay

Details: Optic crystal sculpture hand engraved using the drill technique.

Price: $395

Dimension: 6

Shop: www.cecilederel.com

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Artist:Janice Denley

Email:janice.denley@icloud.com

Title:Autumn Leaves

Description: Whilst walking my dogs one lovely Autumn morning, I was walking through some beautiful leaves, I thought it woud be lovely to capture the image of them on glass. I photocopied the leaves and then arranged them around a glass plate. I outlined them and then engraved them on the underside, to keep the smooth surface on top. I put light and shade into the leaves using diamond burrs, green and white stones and a selection of rubbers. I added the insect as when I was collecting the leaves, I disturbed a little beetle.
Membership level: Craft

Details: Electric Hand drill, burrs and rubbers

Price: £70

Dimension: 27cms diameter, 5cm height

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Artist:Greg Dietrich

Email:greg@cozumelglassart.com

Title:DRAGONFLY BLUE

Description: I blew the glass with cobalt blue on the outside, copper blue on the inside. I then engraved the cobalt layer with diamond wheels, and also textured the non-cobalt blue surface with diamond wheels.
Membership level: Craft

Details: CAMEO ENGRAVED BLOWN GLASS

Price: Not for Sale

Dimension: 8

Shop: www.cozumelglassart.com Instagram: greg.galeria.azul

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Artist:Rosie Campbell

Email:rosie@rosiesglass.co.uk

Title:African scene

Description: This is the largest piece of work I have done to date. I am passionate about Africa and it’s wildlife having been fortunate enough to live there. I am a self taught glass engraver , and a member of the Northern Branch guild . I mostly work on commissions but when I have I get inspiration from outdoors and love to create a wildlife scene.
Membership level: Craft

Contact: Rosie Campbell (Rosie’s Glass) Redlairdston Buchlyvie FK8 3PA 07723 052148 01360 850301

Details: Hand engraved drill

Dimension: Large Hurricane Lamp 40.5cm tall

Shop: www.rosiesglass.co.uk

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Artist:Suh MoonJu

Email:monicarhapsody@outlook.com

Title:Nobody knows what the problem really is (JIMAN)

Description: I express both playfulness as well as other contrasting emotional states through my glass work, by using a kitschy aesthetic, which is inspired by the sub-culture of adults playing with and collecting toys (Kidult toy culture).
The glass doll ‘JIMAN’ in my artwork ‘Nobody knows what the problem really is’ visualises my hidden emotions that are caused by social pressure and microaggression from everyday interactions in the UK as an Asian minority female.
The glass dolls has its name. By giving the specific name, I wish my glass art dealing with dark content would ultimately approach viewers feel joyful and bright. The images on each glass of the doll are hand-cut onto vinyl, sandblasted and then finally engraved.
Membership level: Student

Details: Swedish Colour Overlay (Graal). Engraving, sandblasting, cutting

Dimension: 26 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm

Shop: Instagram: @playful_temperature

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Artist:Herbert Davies

Email:hdavies21@btinternet.com

Title:God Save King Charles III 2023

Description: Vase etched with the wording "God Save King Charles III 2023 " and illustrated with two angles and a tumentosa rose.

Membership level: Craft

Contact: Contact: 01749 672635

Price: Price (might inc 50% gallery mark up): £75

Dimension: 25 h x 14.5 w/d cm

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Artist:Claudia Phipps

Email:info@claudiaphipps.co.uk

Title:Fragility

Description: I have been fascinated by x-rays since I was a sick child in hospital. To create this piece I used overlaid imagery from multiple x-rays exploring the mystery of seeing the internal body from outside. I combined the blue reminiscent of x-rays with red suggesting danger and disturbance.

Contact: 07903134977

Details: Diamond wheel engraved flashed glass

Price: £500

Photo Credit: Claudia Phipps

Dimension: 400 mm diameter

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Artist:Pete Lightowler

Email:peteandheff@gmail.com

Title:Childhood Memories

Description: My engraving is a celebration of the good times about being a child. I chose the wording because the meaning can be interpreted in more than one way. It was an unusual and challenging piece of glass to work with because the prominent centre dome needed to be integral to the design. The research into the design was a lot of fun too. I’d forgotten just how many different ways children enjoy playing.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: Pete Lightowler

Details: Engraved with a micromotor, using combination of burs, including diamond, stone and polishers.

Price: £160

Photo Credit: Heather Lightowler

Dimension: 390 mm diameter

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Artist:Nicholas Rutherford

Email:rutherfordn@aol.com

Title:Jabberwocky Mother

Description: Jabberwocky is derived from the Grendel saga & the Lambton folk worm song
"(S)He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob, An greet big goggly eyes".

A knight stands poised in an old courtyard. She is coiled around a tree with some eggs in a tree stump. Defending them from the vain glory hunter.

Technique; Flexible drive and sand blast.

Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Nicholas Rutherford

Details: Crystal cube; Flexible drive

Price: Sold

Photo Credit: Self

Dimension: 7cm x 7cm

Shop: 4 Linksway, Holders Hill Road, London NW4 1JR

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Artist:Tracey Sheppard

Email:tracey@traceysheppard.co.uk

Title:In the Invisible Places

Description: Inspired by three lines from Alice Oswald’s poem ‘Ideogram for Green’.

‘In the invisible places Where the first leaves start Green breathes growth’

Reassuring words expressing hope, the magic of nature and the promise of new beginnings.

Most of the engraving is on the underside with the central sprig of blossom, and the curl of a root on the top surface.

The two colours of this asymmetric piece seemed to be a perfect fit for the inscription. The earthy brown mystery of the rim and the lush green of the centre.

Membership level: Fellow

Contact: 10 King Alfred Place, Hyde, Winchester, SO23 7DF.

Details: Drill engraved

Price: £1,850

Dimension: 33 cm long, 26.5 cm wide and 10 cm high.

Shop: Instagram: tracey.sheppard_ www.traceysheppard.co.uk

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Artist:Peter Cummings

Email:glasspeter9@bigpond.com

Title:Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Description: I have begun fusing coloured to clear layers to make a deeper flashed glass panel to engrave through the colour. This allows me to get a shading and look of depth for my characters.
I like to tell stories about the people I see around me, and their interactions.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: glasspeter9@bigpond.com

Details: System 96 violet fused to clear. Diamond wheel engraved. Stand fabricated

Price: $550.Australian plus postage.

Photo Credit: Peter Cummings

Dimension: 21 cm H x 11 cm w x 6 cm deep

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Artist:Sandra Snaddon

Email:sandrasnaddon@yahoo.co.uk

Title:The Race

Description: A cycling race with the cyclists following each other, they jostle to overtake each other. BUT they come up on a grandma and her granddaughter slowly cycling on their basic bikes, slowing the race down.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Contact – 01748 812062

Details: Mainly engraved with Diamond burrs and green stones of various sizes, Detail done with rats tail and very small ball

Price: £800

Dimension: W 160cm H 180cm

Shop: www.snaddon.com/glass

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Artist:Dominic Fonde

Email:dominicfondeglass@gmail.com

Title:Himeji Castle

Description: Stipple engraved image Himeji Castle in Japan on lens of a 100yen Magnifying glass. Mounted in a wooden frame.

Contact: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com

Details: Stipple engraved image on magnifying glass lens

Price: £350

Dimension: Dimensions of Frame 20cm x 27 cm. Magnifying glass Lens 9.5cm diameter.

Shop: https://www.dominicfonde.com

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Artist: Elizabeth Crossley

Email:lizziexley@aol.com

Title:Jugful of Fish

Description: Hand engraved with burrs

Membership level: Lay

Price: £50+ p&p

Dimension: 8.5” high

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Artist:Christine Hook

Email:christine@barkus.co.uk

Title:Mercy

Description: Bowl engraved with lettering in the style of David Jones with a quotation from 'The Merchant on Venice' by William Shakespeare, 1598, : ’The quality of mercy is not strain’d. It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.’ The quotation was brought to mind by the gentle ripples in this glass bowl.
Membership level: Lay

Contact: H: 01403 891583. M: 07786 854952

Details: Drill engraved lead crystal

Price: £480

Dimension: 21cm diameter

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Artist:Sue Burne

Email:sueburneart@gmail.com

Title:Xanadu

Description: Inspired by the unfinished Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan, this vase is decorated with opium poppies on one side (the poet was medicated with laudanum and believed to have written it after a dream). Other imagery comes from descriptive passages in the poem plus Chinese and Mongolian motifs. There are the Khan's hunting leopards and a tortoise that might have been in the finished poem.

Membership level: Associate Fellow

Contact: Sue Burne

Details: Vase blown by Sonja Klingler with amethyst and turquoise overlays Ht 23cm

Price: £2500

Photo Credit: Sue Burne

Dimension: Ht 23cm

Shop: https://www.sueburne.com

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Artist:Junko Eager

Email:junkoeager@yahoo.co.uk

Title:Duet

Description: A human hand and cat's paws are engraved on transparent Schott optical crystal glass sheet.
It is placed over fused glass keyboard. They are set in a piano shaped display box.
Membership level: Associate Fellow

Contact: 0755737 4578

Details: Fused glass, and diamond & copper wheel engraving

Price: £1200

Photo Credit: Pierre Guillemin

Dimension: 38 x 21 x 15 cm

Shop: http://www.junkoeager.co.uk

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Artist:Geoff Thwaites

Email:grthwaites@hotmail.com

Title:Dunstanburgh

Description: Carved, fused and drill engraved glass.

Membership level: Fellow

Details: Glass plaque

Price: NFS

Photo Credit: Geoff Thwaites

Dimension: 21 cm

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Artist:Alison Kinnaird

Email:alisonkinnaird@gmail.com

Title:Red List

Description: Wheel Engraving has recently been put on the Red List of Endangered Heritage Crafts. The panel shows myself engraving, surrounded by representations of other endangered crafts, such as Shetland Lace Knitting, Horse hair weaving and glass eye making.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Alison Kinnaird 07970 898926

Details: Lit Panel - Wheel and Sandblast Engraved LED Lighting

Price: £3125.00

Photo Credit: Shannon Tofts

Dimension: 45cm (h) 26cm (w) 10cm (d)

Shop: https://www.alisonkinnaird.com

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Artist:James Dennison-Pender

Email:james@glassengrave.co.uk

Title:Bezhin Meadow

Description: The engraving is based on the short story from The Hunting Sketches by the
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, published in 1852. The hunter comes across a group
of boys from the village who have come to spend the night in the meadow guarding
the horses. He listens to them as they scare each other by telling ghost stories. It
is not an exact illustration of the story, which takes place entirely at night. The
engraving shows six boys, each one modelled on one of the engraver’s grandsons.
In the original story there are only five boys.
Membership level: Fellow

Contact: Glenbrook House, Balerno, Midlothian EH14 7BQ Tel; 0131 449 4116 Mobile 07751 282247

Price: £1,200.00

Dimension: Dimensions (with stand) Height 33cm Width 29cm Depth 10cm

Shop: www.glassengrave.co.uk

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Artist:Linda Norris

Email:linda@linda-norris.com

Title:Fracture

Description: Fracture is part of a series of work I am developing about domestic violence.

Membership level: Lay

Contact: linda@linda-norris.com

Details: Sandblasted image on waterjet cut float glass, wooden spoon

Price: £300

Photo Credit: Linda Norris

Dimension: 30x25x1

Shop: https://linda-norris.com/product/fracture/

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Artist:Kathryn Kyne

Email:katekyne@talktalk.net

Title:Giraffe Helix

Description: Cylindrical handblown vase

Membership level: Craft

Contact: 40cm x 12cm x 12cm

Details: Drill with stone and diamond burrs

Price: £350

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Artist:Lilian Cooper

Email:liliantony@talktalk.net

Title:Horse's Head

Description: Hand engraved on a 12" glass plate using a Marathon drill. I used diamond burrs with green stones to refine, then shaded with green and Arkansas stones. Finally I used pencil rubbers for the darker detailing.
Membership level: Lay

Details: Hand engraved

Price: Not for sale

Dimension: 12

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