A week with Chris Bird-Jones

Awesome glass lady Chris Bird-Jones was my lecturer this week- she is so bloomin lovely, talented and wonderfully enthusiastic!

'Light, Texture, Shadow- Drama!'... looking at the world as a reflection!

I love the contrast between the creeping trees against the simple canvas of snow so designed my glass panel to encorporate these.

Masking, drawing, stenciling, slumping, sandblasting...

 Final piece- enjoying the winter sun.

  



Sunshine

 

Rovaniemi ice hotel, Suomenlinna island sun, Hämeenlinna wander home.

Covering and revealing

Design a mask that either hides or reveals something about yourself...

My piece is a mask which covers the mouth and represents how many words seem to come out of mine. The shape is based on a bird in flight- revealing my love of travelling and being free!

...not quite finished yet but I'm getting there!

Kiwi pot

I've been hand building a rather large clay pot in uni! The design was adapted from a delightful little kiwi fruit...

Glazing ceramics is always exciting- the way a glaze looks before and after firing can be ridiculous. Currently the pot is lilac but hopefully will turn out kind of green and brown, but I'm really not sure what will happen!

Blowing glass with Sara Hulkkonen

This week I became a pro glass blower:

I might be lying, but I did spend the week learning the basics in Nuutajärvi glass village in Finland. Sara Hulkkonen was an ace teacher and even managed to keep me from setting myself on fire. 

I'll upload my photos when I'm back from visiting Santa in Lapland!