Latest news:
Denbigh Library Gallery: I will be setting up an exhibition in Denbigh Library next week which will run from the 21st April to the 16th June. Entitled "Growing Glass 1" it will reflect my aim to balance growing glass with a growing garden! Especially difficult at this time of year as all veggie gardeners will testify! If you're near Denbigh, call in and take a look.
Gallery: Gallery here at home open and bursting at the seams! If you come up and I'm not in the gallery I'll be either in the studio or the garden, covered in glass or covered in compost.......busy growing stuff...
If you happen to find yourself in Carmarthen, Origin artists' and makers' co-operative (formerly Origin Dyfed down on Blue Street) is open for business at 23 King Street, Carmarthen - come along and take a look at how we've transformed the wonderful Hardings/Siop y Seld premises! It's the shop with the fantastic art deco facade and triple window - and we're now open upstairs too!
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" I have always loved glass and my journey with it is constantly evolving - from collecting worn and wonderfully jewel-like beach glass as a child to
life as a full-time glass artist -
-it is the vibrancy of glass that appeals to me, the colours you can add to it to make it sing, the way it plays with light, the way no two pieces are ever the same after a firing "
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I use various methods, all under the general heading of warm or kiln-formed glass,
including fusing, casting, lustring, and slumping.
The jewellery reflects the world on a miniature scale - I like to layer up the glass so that sometimes up to six layers are used for one pendant - if you then look into that pendant new worlds open up before your eyes.
The panels and dishes are also layered but not as deep - here I work on a larger scale and the pieces are bolder blocks of colour, often more direct representations.
Each pendant, panel or dish is a unique piece - the pendants are generally cut from a larger fused slab and as such are completely unrepeatable.
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