glass Tag

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 on glass with enamels, which is then fired to fix the pigments into the glass. The glass is then cut and collaged to create a faceted, pixilated image. The...

Heal Soap Dish reuses shattered glass originally produced from sand, a natural, finite resource.  Qualities of material have always fascinated me. Walter Gropius and his mantra, ‘Form Follows Function’, was fundamental to the Bauhaus movement. A development of this is to examine the inherent differences in material and allow the standout qualities to be the most important aspect of...

Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of Nezu, we went to Team Labs Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feasts. It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely overwhelming. As we entered, we found a room leading to another room with projections on the walls....

Nezu is a museum and art gallery with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I visited in Japan, and I was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with a rush-like mat, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water plays an important role and there were...

Koi, temples and aquaponics in Japan. Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience. My daughter is working in Japan and we travelled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I had heard so much about but never...

Last night I was invited to attend an event hosted by Carole Bent, a creative catalyst and Bill Cotton from the BCP council, which bought together 8 local creatives and considered the values of art in the school curriculum. It was held at Talbot Heath school. Led by Angharad Holloway, Talbot Heath already pioneers STEAM education and has recently built an amazing STEAM hub where...

Allusion uniquely combines dance, film and glass sculpture and is the result of a creative collaboration between Rebecca Newnham and Lizzie Sykes. It consists of a site-specific dance film projected through and onto a curved sculptural glass screen. The glass sculpture was made to reflect the film, and its enamelled surface captures the...

Facets , a collection of 30 glass bowls inspired by Victorian architecture and social history, was originally created in response to The Russell-Cotes, a Victorian Art Gallery & Museum and its collection. Facets, a collection of 30 glass bowls inspired by Victorian architecture and social history, was originally created in response to The Russell-Cotes, a Victorian Art Gallery...