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I was teaching the glass on glass technique again this weekend at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I had 7 fabulous creative students. Here are their wonderful pieces of art lit up by that beautiful bright blue sky.
It is said that the Irish Saint Brigid (of Kildare) visited Beckery chapel just outside Glastonbury in the 5th Century AD. Although the chapel is no longer there I went to find the hill (Brides mound) where it once was. I wish I had been in on the recent excavations where they re-found seven skeletons…
Recently I moved back to Devon after 21 years in Somerset. It’s taking a while to get used to living in a town here and being surrounded by houses instead of living out in the sticks and being surrounded by fields. However I have the sea and Dartmoor close by, and I can see “Rippon…
This school was a joy to work with. A small primary school of just over 100 pupils, every child was able to take part in making it. I was sent lots of drawings from the children to use for a design and spent a day sketching possibilities and a final cartoon. I spent a couple…
I take so many photos of the landscape around me, usually they serve as reference points for work that takes me somewhere beyond that which is seen. This time I decided to make a couple of pieces that are purely representational. At least more or less ! The first inspired by this dramatic sunset last…
If you read my last post about the glass on glass technique, you may have recognized the blue glass mosaic with the orange circles. It is a design based on Zillion’s body. This was the first of a small series of designs based on his body and his mane that I will be exhibiting in…
Trudging up the steep slope in the pouring rain, my oversized brolly got stuck several times on the overhanging bushes and brambles. It was early July but felt like autumn, the rain water ran in rivulets down the path bouncing up now and then to splash and soak through the holes in the canvas of…