A piece of my fused glass titled 'Spring Flowers' was purchased by The Working Mens' College in Camden, London NW1. It has been placed in their Level 3 Reception area and was used in connection with a celebration of adult learning in the form of an art trail around the borough to see arts and crafts by older learners in the community and the opportunity to try a taster class in a number of community locations, provided by Westminster Kingsway College.
Sheryl Vaughan
‘Spring Flowers’
Kiln formed
square glass work on metal posts
2012
Glass Art
WMC
collection
It was the
first day of term January 2012 and whilst travelling to college I noticed all
the beautiful flowers that were in bloom.
It seemed surreal that any of the flowers should even be out at
all. I decided to make a bouquet of them
and fuse them between glass in the kiln.
Because they were too wet and still too green, I had to wait a whole
term and a holiday break for the bouquet to dry out satisfactorily enough
before they were deemed suitable to go in the kiln. I used enamels and metallic mica powders of
the same colours of the flowers to mimic the colour balance of the bouquet, in
case detail was lost in the firing.
Mille fiore was added to create depth and colour if all the plants
became completely burnt out.
Sheryl, who
won the NIACE ‘London Regional Award’ for Adult Learners Week in 2011, said ‘The choices in education so far have
given me the opportunity to find out about myself and my capabilities which I
never knew I possessed. Adult Education
saved me in prison. It gave me a purpose
in life.”
Sheryl gained
a place on 3DD Art-Glass BA(Hons) course at the University of the Creative
Arts, Farnham Campus in September 2012 and is now studying for a degree
following support and encouragement from her Stained Glass and Glass Art tutor,
Katherine Hewlett.
