Japanese Exhibition February 2014 at the British Museum

What amazing carving skills the Japanese had in the early centuries of our time.  This white jade is the most wonderful example of 3DD carving.  No 3D printer used then!

TRU BEGINNINGS EXHIBITION - 2ND YEAR STUDENTS - END OF YEAR SHOW

The Glass Prize 2014

This is my entry in The Glass Prize 2014.  'Emerald Energy' consists of a hollow sandblasted lamp base with a solid glass 'dome' - or interchangeable dome, as it is just one of 6 in the series 'Duplication'.

The Glass Prize is an online voting competition, a panel of judges will chose their top 5 pieces and voters will be able to 'like' on the Warm Glass facebook page between 24th March and midday April 10th.

https://www.facebook.com/warmglassUK?v=wall

Glass making in India at Ferozabad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjDUXz0Fe8

This has to be the best video made of the glass works in India.  No health and safety rules here. Totally amazing piece of footage for all interested in glass. Facinating *****

I was sent this video about studying glass in Prague by Gillian Dobias - check it out.

http://monocle.com/film/design/clear-vision-czech-glass

Czech glass is at the forefront of studio glass design and is also the home country of the studio glass movement beginning in the 1950's.

Camden Art Trail

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.

Design a T-Shirt

I have just designed a sweatshirt from an experimental photograph that I took last Christmas 2012.  Viewers can go to the site and vote for the best t-shirt every two weeks.  The t-shirt with the highest vote will get printed and put into the websites shop.

www.garmsby.co.uk

Please take a look and give some support to this new way of getting designers work 'out there'.