Magda is inspired to design and make stained glass creations in her garden studio in Ripon. She aims to add extra colour, light, and movement into gardens and homes. Her organically driven range of smaller work includes birds, flowers, mirrors, hangings and sculptures with ‘planting’ stakes. The glass design for her largest sculptures is informed …
Suzanne individually designs and handmakes glass beads, flowers, baubles and jewellery using a technique known as lampworking – ‘the art of making small objects from glass roads melted in the flame of a torch’.
Jess Davids is a designer-maker specialising in glassblowing. Fuelled by her wanderlust for the natural world, Jess weaves her inspirations into enchanting creations. Taken by the beauty of light, Jess embraces the transparent nature of glass. Each creation becomes a vibrant interplay of reflections. Driven by a commitment to sustainability, Jess conscientiously acknowledges the environmental …
Samantha Yates is a glass artist based in Shipley, West Yorkshire. She uses the pseudonym Lil’ Rabbitfoot. She creates beautiful glass flowers and foliage to share the emotions of love & joy and show her appreciation of the natural environment. Her flowers are rich in individual character, both naive & fun, revealing the simple beauty …
Hilary Holmes is inspired by nature, stories and legends. When she’s not repairing and restoring windows she can be found making smaller pieces of art, including suns, moons, green men and her signature glass fish which are made from all the random shapes of glass left over from bigger projects.
Chilli Glass is an Otley based fused glass artist who has worked for over 30 years with glass. For the last decade, she has been exploring the process of kilned formed fused glass with a special interest in the chemical reactions that take place at high temperatures. She uses a variety of glass forms, including …
Alx Creations specialise in creating captivating pieces that skillfully encapsulate and immortalize transient experiences. Their creative process draws inspiration from individual and collective stories, tapping into the rich tapestry of memories that make up our lives. Central to Alex’s practice is a mixed media approach, which fuses the inherent textures and natural qualities of wood …
Amanda Glanville is a Maker of Tiny Glass Stuff. Discovering the meticulous art of flame-worked glass in the mid 1990’s she’s been on a mission ever since to reclaim the tradition of making kitsch ‘little glass animals’, reinventing them for the present day as quirky, affordable collectables. She has become well-known at Designer Maker events …
The context of the artists’ creative practice focuses on richness of Welsh culture, heritage and language. She collects objects to capture information about past and present. By referring to these objects in her making she creates a personal response to their context and its history. Using the medium of glass, the unpredictable nature of the …
Angela’s work is traditionally hand-crafted using either lead or the copper-foil method, also called the Tiffany Method. She is fascinated by colour and light and the interaction between the two. She uses various types of glass, such as textured or iridescent to create different effects as this looks quite beautiful in the light. She takes …