Stained Glass Fish Window for a Bathroom
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Amy McCarthy
Aug 27, 20141 min read
A Loo with a view
Really pleased to have got my latest commission installed into its home in the downstairs toilet in a lovely late Georgian house in...
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Amy McCarthy
Apr 25, 20144 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Mar 14, 20141 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Oct 21, 20121 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 14, 20121 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 13, 20121 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Jul 25, 20121 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Jul 14, 20122 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
May 4, 20121 min read
New experiments: stained glass and kiln fired photo transfers
OrganicARTS Open Studios Art Trail in September and I am hoping to do some collaborative photographic/glass designs with local...
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Amy McCarthy
Apr 11, 20121 min read
My lovely love birds make excellent wedding gifts!
This slideshow requires JavaScript. #BirdCage #personalisedweddinggift #art #paint #lead #affordablegifts #vintageinspired #birds...
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Amy McCarthy
Feb 20, 20121 min read
Lots of new glass designs and ideas
There are new panels on my website, new Dartmoor panels yet to be shown to the world (I am waiting for frames) and I am desperate to...
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Amy McCarthy
Feb 2, 20122 min read
I find finishing stained glass panels harder than starting them!
This slideshow requires JavaScript. This morning it was very cold in my studio, very cold indeed! It was one of those mornings when I...
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Amy McCarthy
Jan 23, 20121 min read
First in a new series, inspired by my children
I am working on some new themes for this year’s work, one of which is a series of panels inspired by my children, trying to #panel...
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Amy McCarthy
Nov 28, 20111 min read
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...
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Amy McCarthy
Nov 7, 20111 min read
Art for Charity’s sake
It took me 5 and a half hours but I eventually hung 80 recycled fused glass raindrops from the afore mentioned mosaic cloud; made from an...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 16, 20111 min read
Cementing and experimenting
I had 5 visitors today, a mixture of fellow artists, local people and a friend from round the corner, very civilised! Still 2 days left...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 14, 20111 min read
Not quite managed a post a day!
Whoops! A broken camera stood between me and Sunday’s Open Studios blog post, no point in a post without a pic! Anyway, Sunday was a very...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 10, 20111 min read
Open Studios Day 6:Bubbly and nibbles!
I managed to get my raindrops sculpture up in the garden this morning and spent the day threading the raindrops back on whilst chatting...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 9, 20111 min read
Open Studios day 5
I then went on to cut 4 small Winter Village scenes, ready to be painted soon and tried to repair a beautiful teasel panel I have We had...
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