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New Gallery News
Late last year, I took some work to a new – to me, anyway – exhibition space/shop in the historic town of Lichfield.
Emporium Gallery were having a Christmas Wonderland exhibition and they displayed some of my decorations. I also cheekily took along a couple of the new pieces I’ve been working on. I bit of a move change for me, but a direction I wanted to go in.
The delightful ladies in this elegant gallery took those samples, and were very complimentary and enthusiastic about these new pieces. I went back this week with a selection, and I can now announce that I am officially stocked and amongst great company in this gallery of contemporary British original art and designer craft.
Here’s some of the pieces that are now on display:
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It’s nearly time for the IFG!
Wow, I am actually writing a blog post – it’s been a while since I’ve done one of those!
Truth is, I haven’t had a lot to talk about lately. I’m plodding away at the studio, and I’ve been working at schools and a local hospice. I sometimes share my work on my Facebook page or Twitter, because it’s a quick and easy fix, but as I am now trying to move my work forward, I will attempt to update the blog a bit more often!
I am making a few new pieces, and hope to be officially stocked by a new gallery soon. I am also going to be displaying work in a local coffee shop, run by an old, old school friend and her brother, who are moving their lovely eatery to newer, larger premises soon – and my lovely friend Julie wants a selection of local artists work to display (and sell).
I will have some new work to show you, but meanwhile here’s the piece that will be in the CGS exhibition “Wish You Were Here” as part of the long overdue, eagerly awaited International Festival of Glass at Stourbridge at the end of May. I am just ever so excited to be going along, a glass feast for the eyes for two whole days!
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Gift Vouchers Now Available
It’s been one of those years, not a lot has gone to plan.
I had every intention of arranging some workshops at the studio, but it never happened! Aware that Christmas is a approaching at breakneck speed, and that some customers have had classes bought for them as gifts, I have now set up a page on the website where you can purchase vouchers for a range of workshop days. Click here for details: GIFT VOUCHERS
I am hoping that this new Paypal button works okay (you don’t need a Paypal account, you can pay on a card without one) – if you try it, and find a problem, please get in touch, whilst I am going through the teething process of setting this up.
We’ve also got our Open Studios down at Shed 2 in only ten days time! Oh dear, I best get a wriggle on, the brush and dustpan out, and shake off the fluffy duster. Who knows what I will find under the mess…
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Restoration Project
Through the local arts/networking group that I am a part of, a call was put out for someone to help with a stained glass window restoration. The requirement was for a painted roundel, three of the same design to match a fourth original as part of a building restoration project.
I contacted the architect, Doug, to say that whilst I couldn’t do painted windows, there might be something we could do, so we met, he brought me one of the original broken windows, took some clear photographs of another, and off we went.
It took some time and was a steep learning curve, but as well learning a lot about this particular project and the processes involved, it’s given me some ideas to work with in the future.
I believe the original windows are silver stained, which is something I would like to learn how to do, but for now, I did this with some technical wizardry and lots of experimentation!
Here’s the original now in-situ 
A slightly blurry snap of one of the restored windows. A stained glass artist did a lot of this work, I only did the beehive image by the way! 
Two of the beehives I did. 
And an overview of the room
