BUY, SELL & SUPPORT Limned Glass

I have always loved to make things but, in recent times, I found that my business activities offered limited opportunities to get my hands dirty.

After a period of ill health led me to re-evaluate my life priorities, I built a fused glass studio in Cambridge and developed my skills and practice. I now exhibit all-round the area (and beyond) at art and craft events including Craft In Focus, through specialist galleries, and at Craft In Focus online.

I design and make my own coloured and patterned glass, using a variety of techniques, to give the widest possible pallet of colours, shapes and textures. I love the interplay of light with translucent, opalescent, iridised and dichroic glass especially when I can melt different glasses, powders and enamels together to create new shapes, colours and forms. I take inspiration from the world around me – and from the colours, swirls and shapes within the glass itself.

I mostly produce fused glass art pieces, particularly birds and the natural world as I find that glass lends itself very well to capturing their colours and textures, whether natural and realistic or with a distinctive artistic twist to the colours and patterns.

I also very much enjoy making a few ornaments and items of tableware and jewellery from time to time.

I love to experiment and try new things; the engineer in me enjoys the technical challenges of working with new techniques and materials, and the artist in me is always exploring new ways of using glass to create different forms and shapes and to enhance the natural shapes and textures within the glass itself.

I have developed techniques for turning flat ‘2D’ glass sheet into pieces with more depth, from ‘2½D’ to full 3D work. I also work hard to infuse my work with a distinctive character or personality; please have a look at my work here at Craft In Focus online, and via my website www.limned.glass and Instagram page www.instagram.com/limnedglass