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268 Poppies

Nov 10, 2016
1 min

268 Poppies

268 poppies These poppies are made from wire and tissue paper, with a painted centre and they are hung round The Great Anchor (between the Train Station and Teignmouth and Shaldon Museum). We are asking people to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Great War by photographing the poppies as they disintegrate over the coming days and emailing an image to us at westsidestoryproject@gmail.com A selection of these images will be exhibited in the museum when it opens again

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Permanent sunshine

Oct 15, 2014
1 min

Permanent sunshine

I just fitted this panel into a new garden room in a 1970’s house in Dawlish, so now they can have sunshine however dull and rainy it is outside! And its pretty dull and rainy today! The customers really liked Art Deco period style and so I used the colours and stylised forms of Deco to create this very long, but very short panel This is a 2 metre long, but only 25 cm high traditional leaded panel fitted in front of a double glazed unit and will be beaded in when the room i

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A Toast to the Hosts!

Aug 5, 2014
1 min

A Toast to the Hosts!

This week I am enjoying the hospitality of Adele and Mike Yates, in their wonderful historic home ‘Mallards’. Their son Ben Yates has his There are 5 artists showing their work in total (and I will post about the others later), but today I am going to focus on the magical world of Ben’s Electi-Citie Photocubism it Ben’s other concept. Here he makes 3D here #art #recycledart #environmentalart #activities #arttrail #sculpturetrail #Teignmouth #artforsale #artexhibition #NewtonA

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Checking on the sculptues

Jul 26, 2014
1 min

Checking on the sculptues

It’s summer on the South Devon coast and the 10th year of TRAIL (Teignmouth recycled art in landscape). I enter every year and this year I have made 3 exstinct birds from broken washing machines and old junk. They are (from the left) a Great Aulk, Do Do and Solomon Island Crested Pigeon. Every day we go check on them, make sure they are happy in their roosts and that their solar light eyes still work. My kids have never known any different. An annual ritual as ingrained as le

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Aloha Teignmouth!

Jun 22, 2014
1 min

Aloha Teignmouth!

The outside world keeps on turning and Gloss Gallery summer show is already up and running, which I am pleased to be part of and as the summer holidays grow nearer I am feverishly working on my recycled sculpture for TRAIL 2014 and working towards my first Devon Open Studios in Teignmouth, I will be Anyway, the sun is shining and recycled washing machines do not turn themselves into sculptures, so I will head out into the Sunday sunshine. #panel #art #artglass #lead #seaside

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Exeter Community Centre Multi-Sensory Window Commission

Apr 25, 2014
4 min

Exeter Community Centre Multi-Sensory Window Commission

This slideshow requires JavaScript. A y Exeter Community Centre on St David’s Hill, Exeter. Below is the full explanation of what on earth its all about. It’s a bit. wordy, but that really reflects how absorbing I have found the process and the social history that underpins the window. The background In 1838 The West of England School (WESA) opened its doors to offer ‘instruction and employment’ to blind children across the whole of the West of England. The school grew and by

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The Hare and The Moon

Mar 14, 2014
1 min

The Hare and The Moon

Leaded round panel with a hare and moon painted in kiln fired glass paints and lustre. Inspired by the Indian folk tale of the same name #art #moon #traditionalcraft #paintedglass #stainedglass #handmade #thehareandthemoon #glass #hare #traditionalglasspainting

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The big reveal!

Sep 6, 2013
2 min

The big reveal!

I picked the tree trunk up in 3 and 6 inch cross sections, with quite a lot of wild life attached and I must confess it was a bit daunting….but then my ever useful Dad arrived and Becoming Autumn is the second piece on the trail. Again I used recycled waste glass (this time Spectrum 96 series), and depicted oak leaves changing My third piece on the trail is also inspired by the modern use of woodland for peace and reflection. ‘ Looking up at Mountain Ash’ takes inspiration fr

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Autumnal inspiration

Nov 13, 2012
1 min

Autumnal inspiration

autumn leaves, acer Autumn is such an inspirational season for me; I am fresh back to work after the summer holidays with the kids and I can concentrate on new ideas for the busy winter period. This year I can’t stop looking at trees, there has been some fabulous colour on the trees this autumn! Luckily I have got to indulge my tree stained glass beech tree fetish with a recently finished beech tree commission for the front door of a new build house on a farm called ‘Nut Tre

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Mezzanine Mountain Window

Oct 21, 2012
1 min

Mezzanine Mountain Window

The panel gets lots of natural and artificial light at different times of day/night and will hopefully be dramatic in a totally different way at night, when the reds and yellows will be picked up more on the first floor. and the design was inspired by the client’s love of mountaineering and the strong, warm colours of the landscape of the Himalayas. The strong colours look great against the white walls and is a mixture of mouth blown Polish glass and Spectrum glass of varying

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Finished pieces, new commissions and small rewards

Sep 20, 2012
2 min

Finished pieces, new commissions and small rewards

My acid etched Islamic inspired panel is leaded up and waiting to be cemented and I have cut the glass for a new fish geometric panel, they are coming on nicely. I have made a full size cartoon of my next mountain commission and I am just trying to position the sunrise so that is looks right AND allows me to cut the sky from one continuous piece of glass. The customers came to collect their glamorous Art Deco door panel (hopefully it will fit into their front door like a glov

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experimenting with recycled glass frit

Sep 14, 2012
1 min

experimenting with recycled glass frit

There is still lots of time to come and visit me at Open Studios, please click here for dates and times. This slideshow requires JavaScript. #art #artglass #design #commission #Exeter #commissioningastainedglasspanel #abstract #bespoke #kiln #recycledglass #frit #workingwithclients #warmglass #stainedglasspanels #stainedglass #Exhibition #DevonOpenStudios #designbreif #handmade #workingwithrecycledglass #glass #glassfusing #Devon #craft #artisan

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Cementing and Soldering Stained Glass

Sep 13, 2012
1 min

Cementing and Soldering Stained Glass

Open studios rumbles along and I have spent my day cementing and soldering. My acid etched panel is coming on nicely, the patterns have come out very well. I have almost finished a birthday commission Love Bird piece Oh and I have a new panel with fused bird inclusions and lino cut prints ready to be framed now! Strange fact of the day = ALL my visitors today for Open Studios do glass as a hobby or are students of glass (as we all are of course!) There is still lots of time

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My tree has turned into a monster, but you can still add your wishes to it!

Sep 2, 2012
1 min

My tree has turned into a monster, but you can still add your wishes to it!

Anyway, it really doesn’t look like a tree any more; more like a Fraggle Rock monster! But it is now safely erected in my garden, wishes intact and you are cordially invited to add your own wish to my tree/monster during Devon Open Studios which runs from the 8th – 23rd September. The slide show takes you through the wishing tree from the start till now, who knows what will happen to it next! This slideshow requires JavaScript. #wishingtree #art #artglass #seaside #design #re

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An awful lot of wishes

Aug 11, 2012
1 min

An awful lot of wishes

Literally hundreds of wishes have been tied to my tree, at least 4 pairs of curtains, an old double duvet cover and goodness knows what else; I am really chuffed that now people have started bringing their own strange trinkets and special bits to add to the tree. Thanks to unknown members of the public who have refilled the bin with scraps of material in between my visits! This sculpture is part of the TRAIL recycled sculpture trail on Teignmouth sea front. We also have an in

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Stained Glass Window for a Green House

Jul 25, 2012
1 min

Stained Glass Window for a Green House

birthday present stained glass panel Not just any green house a lovely wooden bespoke Grow House for the surprise Birthday present of the client’s wife. I Stained glass panel with tomato, aubergine and pepper completed this stained glass commission several weeks ago now and I have just received the photos of it in its new home. Thankfully it fits perfectly and I think it looks very handsome! The brief was to create a window full of vegetables and to include the words ‘Lisa’s

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Jul 19, 2012
1 min

Little me in a lovely big exhibition!

I dived into the private view of Gloss Gallery’s new exhibition Coast and Country as I am exhibiting with them! It was heaving with people, which was an excellent start to the show, thankfully a couple of my artist friends arrived so I had some friendly faces to talk to as I am an awful net worker! The gallery staff have done a really good job of curating it and its a great exhibition with loads of very diverse West Country talent, all of them far better known than me! Please

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2 months is a long time in blog land!

Jul 14, 2012
2 min

2 months is a long time in blog land!

Some of it has been taken up with joining the writing team at UKHandmade where I am now writing the craft profiles section, which is proving to be great fun, though I hope my outpourings wont be too sporadic for them! I have also taken on another voluntary role, by joining the board of the Devon Artist Network and its great to be involved with an organisation Things in the world of glass have been moving on nicely too! I have been furiously making boat mobiles and my other re

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My lovely love birds make excellent wedding gifts!

Apr 11, 2012
1 min

My lovely love birds make excellent wedding gifts!

This slideshow requires JavaScript. #BirdCage #personalisedweddinggift #art #paint #lead #affordablegifts #vintageinspired #birds #Britishdesign #paintedglass #colouredglass #fineart #lovebirds #handpainted #stainedglass #lettering #handmadegifts #glass #Devon

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The amyorangejuice machine is in full swing!

Nov 28, 2011
1 min

The amyorangejuice machine is in full swing!

The machine being me, in my studio till all hours at the moment! But its all very exciting, I have a whole load of events going on at the moment and over the next few weeks and I thought it was about time I put keyboard to blog and told you all about them! Saturday continued in a frenzy of activity as I raced to get stock ready for my part in the wonderful Exeter Food Store’s Christmas Exhibition. I am sharing the cafe upstairs with Elizabeth Rashley’s gorgeous lino cut print

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