New Glass Workshops 2024
New Glass Workshops 2024
This year I am teaching the following Masterclasses and technical workshops.
Online 4 session Masterclasses: For Warm Glass.
Course in: April, August and November
In person: 14 Day Masterclass in Germany, at Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany.
Dates: 29th June to 12th July 2024.
I also will be running some in-person courses from my workshop. Checkout my ‘Glass Workshops’ page or click the button below. Dates to be confirmed.
Across the Fields
Lenticular imagery and glass lenticular lens in an oak wood frame
New Framed Glass Artworks
These are lens based images that animate and interact with you as you move around them.
Breaking Ground
Lenticular imagery and glass lenticular lens in an oak wood frame
Wall Mounted Lenticular Glass Artworks
In this work employs the fusion of a kiln-formed, meticulously hand-polished glass lens with a digitised image, to create the resulting optical illusion of an ethereal, holographic-like three-dimensional form, that supersedes the surface of the glass and animates in time with the viewers movement.
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More Landscapes
This year I’ve started to look at the details within a given landscape that are reminiscent of a place or time.
I’m loving the otherworldliness of these pools of glass. They draw you into the space into a different space and time. Their almost meditative and totally captivating.
My next very large cast, which has just come out of the kiln, works in exactly the same way and I’m very excited to share the images of it, once it has been ground and polished.
New Year - New Ideas - April 2023
This year I have been busy with lots of teaching.
My first project was to teach an online Masterclass for Warm Glass. This was very interesting, as it’s a totally different way of working for me. No eye contact with students, several cameras working at once to capture desktop demonstrations, running a powerpoint and talking directly to camera. Not to mention capturing elements of the course via video in advance, due to mask wearing and H&S restrictions. It was very involved, but in the end I felt the students enjoyed it and got a lot out of it.
So I will be teaching another online Masterclass for Warm Glass later this year.
Next, I travelled down to Wiltshire to teach a Masterclass, this time in person, at The Glass Hub. I had a great time working with a full group of seven students. It was my first time teaching at The Glass Hub and I loved it.
Helga and KT made me so welcome and the creativity in the group was fabulous.
Finally, I got stuck into my own work at the workshop. I’ve been starting to develop my glass landscape series. These pieces start to sit between my pure landscape work and my more abstract geometric optical glass sculptures. I plan on launching this new work in my two man show over the summer at the Artwave West Gallery, Dorset.
‘‘Exciting times’ 2022
I’ve been designing and prototyping new ideas and have invested in a very large secondhand kiln, which will enable me to scale my ideas up.
This is Bertha, my new large kiln
New Work
Scaling up and realising ideas is always fraught with problems and issues, with both design and the practical, technical realisation of these concepts.
My desire to make new even lager cast works for Collect 2022 led me to work solidly for 6 months on the large 40 x 40 cm cast below.
I am so pleased with the result and it has spurred me on to push the new working processes, I developed over this time, even further.
New lenticular designs
I had plenty of time to reflect and consider new works. And I guess, as with all works of art, these hold a reference to the times we are living through.
This is one of the new strands that I am developing. Once again I am looking at space, but using my favoured spheres in groups, which float, suspended in the air. These designs are moving forward into 2021, with hopes to have a final triptych of these animated forms framed and ready to photograph in the coming months
In this series the spheres have stone-like textures, like a charcoal drawing. They are suspending in random groups within a virtual space.
This piece is a test for a triptych of works which use the glass lens to bring a clear focus to an element of the design. Referencing the scientific microscopic zoom and the animation of living organisms on a slide.
Proximity, 2021
kiln formed glass in solid oak frames
One of the new lenticular pieces I plan on launching this year.
Yorkshire Schools Project
Oliver Smithies, (born June 23, 1925, Halifax, Yorkshire, England—died January 10, 2017) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2007, for his work on targeted gene modification.
This was a commission to create The Oliver Smithies Science Award.
This very special award has been devised to recognise gifted science students from the Yorkshire area.
I’ve been working with Yorkshire school pupils to design this award. It was then up to me to make the winning student’s design. The Oliver Smithies Science Award will be presented at a Science Fair ceremony in October 2021.
Private Commissions
On-going Projects at the Studio
Private Commissions
I’m very excited that today I received news that the door panels I created last year for a very special home have been fitted. The image opposite shows the starting points for this commission.
Samples
Below you can see the images of some of the nine lenticular glass panels created for this interior work.
One of the nine panels produced as part of this interior commission.
As you can see they transmit and defuse light beautifully!
Bespoke Hand Printed Glass Tiles
As part of this commission I also created bespoke hand printed glass tiles, that work in harmony with the glass panels.
These are created to a specific colour pallet and the enamel fired on to create the subtle matt pattern on the glossy tile surface. This creates beautiful shadows and echos of decoration within the body of the tile.
Beautiful external door panels
This private commission is for a fabulously creative home and charts the history of the building and its natural surroundings
Below are the final digital designs.
The image opposite is the glass panels now installed, as viewed from inside the house, with sunlight enhancing the transparent colours within.
These are toughened and laminated panels and meet all specified safety requirements. The depth is achieved through layered imagery on each face of the glass and fired-on glass enamel.
