Quercus Edition
Quercus Edition 3m tall, an edition of 8
Sculpture construction system which is durable and kinder to the planet. December 2021
Quercus Edition explores the characteristics of the oak leaf, which have Golden Section and Fibonacci proportions, and the sculptures rotate through the golden angle as they rise upwards optimistically. They embody...
Epiphany
Swarm Blur Sharyn’s Shed Series (300 x 200mm)
The Epiphany series are glass sketches with colourful enamels fired onto the surface, edged with copper and with an optional oak stand.
The sketches are colourful abstracts inspired by aspects of an experience, painted onto glass with a history, previously a shed window or a greenhouse or a...
Quercus
Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The
glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter
solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited
Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined
and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created...
Aeolian in progress
Roots restaurant asked me to design a
suspended glass installation earlier in 2021. Roots is run by Jan and Stacey,
who are passionate about food and art. My studio is not far from Roots, we are
both on the top of a cliff in Southbourne, and it gets breezy here by the sea!
Aeolian references the repeated rolling motion and sound of the rush of...
The Rise series of sculptures and Rise 5
Rise are a series of sculptures which stand upright and are characterised by profiles which draw undulating wave forms. The symmetrical waves separate negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin which separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a...
The Oceania series
The Vermeer series is a succession of curved relief panels. Their reflective glass surfaces refract the room or the environment so that the viewer’s perception switches between the image and the reflection. Each piece starts as a painting onto glass with enamels, which is then fired to fix the pigments into the glass. The glass is then cut and...