This other part of my Artworks collection is dedicated to my work with glass.
That work has been a continuous journey of discovery. In 2003 I retired from academic work and thought I would turn a new page – pursuing a long standing dream of working with glass. Luckily, I had already discovered a young man who had been running a class at Stoke Newington, called ‘Rainbow Glass Studios’. I asked him whether he would teach me – yes, from scratch. He said, ‘well – join in, see how it goes’. When retirement arrived I remembered his welcoming tone and joined in. Since then I have been coming to the workshop run by Richard Patten every week. With a great deal of his help, I have been learning various glasswork techniques. These included ‘fusing’ (binding pieces of glass to each other through heat inside a kiln), ‘leading’ (binding pieces of glass inside a frame made of lead) and ‘hand-painting’ (painting on glass which is then fired inside a kiln). At the bottom of each photograph I added the date and techniques used for each piece.
As most people know, glassworks are created for a particular purpose – as windows or door panels, as lampshades, as simply visual three-dimensional objects, and so on. Just to offer a simple guide to the various uses, I grouped my glassworks into four sections as follows:
DOORS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
Click on each section title to jump straight there.
Enlarge each picture by clicking on it once.
Go back to the overall display by clicking once outside the enlarged picture.