tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323326280300785012024-03-13T23:34:29.211+00:00I LOVE REDAll things about glass fusing, tapestry weaving, allotment and gardening, galleries, black labradors, textiles and the colour RED!
check out www.glassprimitif.etsy.com Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-1219094043253094922016-04-21T14:50:00.002+00:002016-04-21T14:50:43.825+00:00Layered Landscapes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was such a lovely day at Skipwith Common, near York, to teach Layered Landscapes. The workshop at Silver and Stone is such a pretty place, looking out onto fields with sheep and listening to the birdsong. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three keen glass artists designed and created fused glass panels based on ideas and drawings of The Yorkshire Dales including trees, hills, water and big skies. I love the use of dichroic shards on blue glass to emulate water, red glass pieces for poppies and opal grey glass to make Yorkshire stone walls. </span></span></h4>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Common Rd, Skipwith, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 5SG, UK53.8366765 -0.9908393000000614853.8319915 -1.0009243000000614 53.841361500000005 -0.98075430000006147tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-91477542706482623262016-02-18T16:31:00.000+00:002016-02-18T16:33:00.194+00:00Glass at The Butterfly Rooms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For everyone who has been asking for glass fusing workshops in West Yorkshire I will be teaching a workshop at <a href="http://thebutterflyrooms.co.uk/workshops/" target="_blank">The Butterfly Rooms</a> in Saltaire on Sunday 12th June 2016.</span> </h3>
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<br />Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Bingley Rd, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD18 4SB, UK53.835232899999987 -1.792806299999938353.834061399999989 -1.7953277999999384 53.836404399999985 -1.7902847999999383tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-90167843639512283892016-01-30T13:52:00.000+00:002016-01-30T14:05:40.594+00:00Our little bit of land<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So 2016 started with a phone call telling us that we have an allotment! We gave up the shared one in Ilkley at the end of 2014 so I have had a whole year without growing any fruit or veg.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a Pinterest board about <a href="https://uk.pinterest.com/glassprimitif/our-allotment/" target="_blank">Our allotment </a>where you can see more pictures and watch us charting our progress. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the beginning of the year I made 30 glass Christmas trees ready for the end of the year then put them away, feeling smug. However, since November there has been a Christmas Tree explosion! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am now making a batch a week and they have been selling out each weekend. I have another 20 in the kiln for <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/east-riddlesden-hall" target="_blank">East Riddlesden Hall </a>Christmas Fair on 5th and 6th December. They are such a delight to make - mixing up coloured glass and hand decorating with gold and white glass powder. Finally, they are finished off with red and white striped string. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'ve even made some spotty ones too and I am teaching Glass Decorations at Skipwith Common, Nr York on Monday 7th December at <a href="http://w.silver-stonejewellery.co.uk/shop/christmas-glass-decorations/" target="_blank">Silver and Stone</a>. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Trees are available for sale at my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Glassprimitif" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a> or visit my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Glassprimitif/" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a> too.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Watercolour Glass has been a bit of an experiment, using up tinted glass cullet placed slightly randomly and decorated with coloured glass "blobs". After the second firing I painted tiny gold stars and then refired at a lower temperature. The tinted glass is 3mm thick (I usually use 2mm Bullseye glass) and so the dish is slightly chu</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">nkier and heavier. </span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, West Yorkshire, UK53.911897 -1.93772860000001453.837089500000005 -2.0990901000000139 53.9867045 -1.7763671000000141tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-24572092150118794182015-10-09T10:21:00.000+00:002015-10-09T10:21:05.293+00:00Glass Versus Weaving<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's here! A big package of assorted yarns from Texere Yarns in Bradford ready for my next project. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Lots of lovely colours (three shades of black) and some Chinese silk yarn for dyeing too. I love the aqua and pistachio yarn - can't wait to start experimenting.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I'm also hard at work in the attic studio creating glass for several events. The new Christmas exhibition opens at Just Makers in Harlow Carr very soon and I also have events in Masham, Saltaire, Kelbrook, East Riddlesden and Headingley in November and December. </span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, West Yorkshire, UK53.911897 -1.93772860000001453.837089500000005 -2.0990901000000139 53.9867045 -1.7763671000000141tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-13463275549921613862015-10-05T08:52:00.001+00:002015-10-05T08:52:59.962+00:00Circles and Ovals<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been getting in lots of practice at this tapestry weaving malarkey.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My warp tension is improving and I'm not tightening the weft too much (although it could still be neater). I have been trying to weave circles and ovals using a wool yarn in flat colour. Placing a piece of white paper behind the warp has made weaving shapes so much easier. I have also woven another practice sample but it is so bad I'm ashamed to show it. It has some soumak that I tried to weave to outline shapes but, when I wove a vertical line, the soumak became thick and messy. I need soumak advice!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have just ordered a lot of weaving yarn so I am expecting a big box of lovely colours to play with.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jo X</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, West Yorkshire, UK53.911897 -1.93772860000001453.837089500000005 -2.0990901000000139 53.9867045 -1.7763671000000141tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-27963224688713927442015-09-23T18:00:00.000+00:002015-09-23T18:00:03.967+00:00Threads of Feeling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2010 The Foundling Hospital Museum in Bloomsbury, London put on an exhibition called "Threads of Feeling - 18th Century Textile Tokens left with Abandoned Babies". You can see more about it <a href="http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> on a slide show.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When babies were left at the foundling hospital the only things identifying them were tiny scraps of fabric. Although the babies were given new names and were not told of their previous history, mothers were encouraged to leave a token with the baby so that, should they ever be able to return to claim their children, they would have something that would identify them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Foundling Hospital Museum is a moving place to visit - the thought that, out of all the abandoned babies only a few were ever reclaimed, is heart rending. Also, almost two thirds of babies taken in died - not through neglect but because the infant mortality rate in London was so high. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have woven a copy of a piece of cloth that was pinned to a baby boy who was left at the Foundling Hospital. He would have been under 2 months old (the hospital was so overwhelmed with babies that it could only take 20 children a month - under the age of 2 months) and, if he had survived, he would have been sent off to a wet nurse in the country straight away. At age five he would have returned to the hospital to be educated and then apprenticed at 10. (Sadly, he died soon after he was taken in).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are visiting London please put <a href="http://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Foundling Hospital Museum</a> on your itinerary of places to visit. </span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-52942961560918781642015-09-18T17:30:00.000+00:002015-09-18T17:30:01.544+00:00Weaving for the Soul Part 3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I wove my second tapestry weaving sample.<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">It didn't go too well. The problems started as soon as I wove the first few wefts because the warp thread wasn't strong enough and it snapped. I had to keep tightening the right hand warp and, as I wove, the weft on the right hand side got thinner and thinner. The weft on the left hand was fine.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anyway, I couldn't complete the piece because, by the time I reached the top the warp was shrinking too much. Lesson learned: make sure the warp yarn is strong!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I need a lot more practice at circles and shapes - hopefully I will be able to get an even weave eventually. You can follow my weaving journey on Pinterest too.</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jo X </b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On Saturday 7th November I will be teaching Glass Dishes at The Garth at Skipwith Common, just outside York. Here is a bit more information about it.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="TextRun SCX8495030" style="line-height: 20px;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX8495030">Enjoy a day designing and making a trio of fused glass dishes including trinket dish, curved dish and square dish (13cm square). Experiment with opal and transparent </span><span class="SpellingError SCX8495030">colour </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX8495030">glass, add inclusions such as mica and copper to create sparkle. Stunning results and lots of fun. No previous experience of glass cutting necessary.</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX8495030" style="line-height: 20px;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCX8495030" style="line-height: 20px;"> Fees: £80</span></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Common Rd, Skipwith, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 5SG, UK53.8366765 -0.9908393000000614853.8319915 -1.0009243000000614 53.841361500000005 -0.98075430000006147tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-24325492508096258372015-09-12T09:16:00.000+00:002015-09-12T09:16:00.654+00:00Weaving for the soul part 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finished my first weaving sample.<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I thought I would have a try at weaving circles - they came out bigger than I thought they would. The cream coloured one turned out the best. After the first one (on the left) I realised that I needed to make the sides of the circle longer so that it would keep its shape and not look squashed. After that I wove a row of soumak before moving onto straight lines.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Below the circles I attempted to weave a blend of beige, cream and brown lines but I made a bit of a pig's ear of it (weaving three colours under electric light wasn't such a good idea) so I tried it again after the circles by using only two colours (rust and cream). Definitely an improvement. My final band has been to practice shapes with a wavy background of a slightly thicker yarn. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I can't begin to tell you how therapeutic this has been so far - it really takes all my concentration. This has to be good for the soul! </span></span></h3>
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<br />Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, West Yorkshire, UK53.911897 -1.93772860000001453.837089500000005 -2.0990901000000139 53.9867045 -1.7763671000000141tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-77876602353141439042015-09-07T15:42:00.000+00:002015-09-07T15:42:00.541+00:00Glass coaster workshop<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday 11th October I will be teaching a one day workshop on creating your own fused glass coasters. This will be my first workshop at The Garth, a workshop complex on Skipwith Common, near York, i am booked to teach more of them from October.</span></h3>
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<br />Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Common Road, Skipwith, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 5SG, UK53.8366765 -0.9908393000000614853.8319915 -1.0009243000000614 53.841361500000005 -0.98075430000006147tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-9973183218839718002015-09-05T10:53:00.000+00:002015-09-05T10:53:00.118+00:00Weaving for the soul<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have taken up tapestry weaving.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst on holiday I visited <a href="http://www.woolfest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Woolfest</a> at Cockermouth and re-ignited my love of all things textile. When I studied textie design (many years ago) I did a short course on handweaving at <a href="http://www.handweavers.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Handweavers Studio </a> in Walthamstow and I absolutely loved it. But printmaking dominated my studies and I abandoned constructed textiles in favour of surface decoration.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am amazed at how much I remember from that short course as I embark on the first of a series of samples I am going to make in order to practice and re-learn the techniques of tapestry weaving. This first sample shows plain weave, a soumak, blending colours, pick and pick, stripes and curves. I can already see that the warp is bulking out at the sides (!) because I am not puling the weft firmly around the end warps. (This is because I am trying to avoid pulling the weft too tight and distorting the warp)</span></span></h3>
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<b><br /></b>Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-71634038245802852862015-09-01T09:47:00.000+00:002015-09-01T09:47:00.189+00:00Hoorah for Small for All! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last month I decided to collect undies for the charity <a href="http://www.smallsforall.org/" target="_blank">Small for All</a>. Between us my daughter and I managed to gather four bras but then I put out an appeal on Facebook and the response has been overwhelming.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Here is the box packed full of new and barely used undies, all collected by lovely creative Yorkshire people including brand new packs of knickers. Most people brought their contributions to my stand at Art in the Pen, the rest dropped them off at the shop where I work in Saltaire. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The satisfaction of collecting for Smalls for All is that I don't have to ask anyone for money or sponsorship and the donations go directly to the recipients. Here's what the charity has to say about it.</span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-33991485477070372052015-08-10T14:56:00.002+00:002015-08-10T14:56:32.954+00:00Lots of preparation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Today I ordered the flowers for my table display. We have an excellent florist in Saltaire, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brambles-Blooms/849683255056270" target="_blank">Brambles and Blooms, </a>and I have picked a selection of green sculptural flowers to go with long white lilium grandiflorum. I'm hoping they will make a show.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">All my electrics have now been pat tested - one floor lamp didn't pass so I am buying a new one this week. I have bought dust sheets from B and Q to cover the bars of the pen and I have sewn acres of retro bunting too. All my furniture is now painted and I am very proud of my bargain circular table I got for a whopping £20 from the auctioneers at Killinghall. My lovely new display boxes arrived on Monday, hand made by a local joiner, and tomorrow I will be painting those too. So, it looks like I am nearly ready - what am I missing?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">GLASS! Oh yes, nearly forgot about the glass.....</span></h3>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">This year I introduced a new design (well it is an old design but I have revisited it and improved upon it) - Retro Square. I love the combination of lime green, acid yellow and bright tangerine shining out on white opal glass with touches of turquoise, aqua and emerald. Retro Square is all about colour and reasons to be cheerful and I have made fruit plates, oval fruit bowls, coasters, tealight holders and sushi-style dishes.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Finally, I am pen 69, surrounded by lovely artists - please come and say hello. </b><b><br /></b><b>Jo X</b></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-36214969344433758522015-06-11T11:26:00.000+00:002015-06-11T11:26:29.233+00:00Design Inspire Live<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Saturday (13th June) I shall be taking my glass to Design@Heart, a unique event at The Heart Centre, Headingley for designer homewares and gifts. <span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm quite excited about this event because it is the first one of it's kind at The Heart Centre, replacing the craft fairs with something a bit more tailored to customers interested in original items for the home.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The ethos behind Design Inspire Live is to promote designer makers with themed events, where we can showcase and sell our work. These events have been designed and created by Becky Moore, herself a creative designer and you can find out more by visiting the website <a href="http://www.designinspirelive.co.uk/home/4588236751" target="_blank">DesignInspireLive</a>.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a sad note, the organisers of Settle Artisans have decided to call it a day with the fairs at Victoria Hall, Settle so I won't be attending any future dates planned for this year. If you received a mail shot from me with the dates of all my activities for 2015, please note that it is only the Settle fairs I won't be at - I will still be at Masham, Art in the Pen at Skipton, Kelbrook Craft Fair and Strid Tea Rooms this summer. If there are any future fairs planned at Settle I will definitely be signing up as Settle has always been a great place to sell my glass. </span></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-29028519007145982202015-04-29T11:57:00.000+00:002015-04-29T12:01:54.875+00:00It's Show Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>January and February are the months that I spend applying for fairs, events and exhibitions. March to May are the months that I find out if my glass has been accepted - or not.</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's always a case of "you win some, you lose some" and I'm pleased to say that I have only had one rejection so far this year (so we won't talk about that)! Form filling and application processing are time consuming: editing and selecting images of new work, making payments, writing artist's statements that fit the word count, updating CVs - all take up time. Some galleries want to see images of the actual work that is to be submitted, others just want to see a selection that represents the artist's work. This means that for exhibitions such as Platform Gallery's Craft Open I had to make the work in advance in the hope that it would get selected (it was :) )</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So now I am changing the pencilled-in dates in my diary to inked-in ones, paying more fees (bleurgh) and planning how to present and display my work. Here is my event schedule for 2015 - I am hoping to add more dates in the next couple of weeks.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14 April - 10 May Glass and Ceramics exhibition at Just Makers The Old Bath House RHS Harlow Carr North Yorkshire</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23 - 25 May The Makers' Fair Saltaire Arts Trail Victoria Hall Saltaire West Yorkshire</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">25 April - 4 July Craft Open Platform Gallery Clitheroe Lancashire</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11 - 12 July Crafted by Hand Masham North Yorkshire</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15 - 16 August Art in the Pen Skipton Auction Mart North Yorkshire</span></h3>
Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 0JS, UK53.9162926 -1.933340499999985753.9151236 -1.9358619999999858 53.917461599999996 -1.9308189999999856tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-40345728817783288512015-03-02T08:00:00.000+00:002015-03-02T08:00:12.112+00:00I love Mondays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was chatting to one of our resident artists at work the other day and she said that she really looked forward to Mondays as she spent Sunday in anticipation of getting back to her studio. Well I like Mondays too.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Today I'm off to Harlow Carr to drop off glass for a forthcoming exhibition. It's a lovely drive over to Harrogate via Beamsley Beacon (a very big hill) and I have a car boot full of new glass. Harlow Carr is a fantastic place to visit, made up of extensive gardens and owned by The Royal Horticutural Society. The exhibition, which opens on 17th March, will be in the Old Bath House and I am really looking forward to it.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I think the reason that I like Mondays so much is that no two days are the same. Last Monday I was teaching glass fusing and next Monday I will be enjoying a long weekend in The Lake District. Before I was self employed I worked for a building society and every monday (in fact, every day) was the same. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Once I get back from Harlow Carr I will spend the rest of the day back in the studio creating more glass for an exhibition application with a deadline of the end of March (!) I'd better get busy then....</span></h3>
Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 1QB, UK53.9822767 -1.572572000000036553.9729392 -1.5927420000000365 53.9916142 -1.5524020000000365tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-34689495954192735722015-02-15T22:20:00.000+00:002015-02-15T22:20:02.994+00:00Making Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>At the end of each year, when I have finished my last event, I always tell myself that I will have plenty of time to make new glass during January and February and even take some time to develop new ideas and test out new materials. It has never happened and this year is no exception.</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I have applied for three open call exhibitions and have been busy making new glass for each (I am only allowed to submit the glass shown on the application images) and I also have a show at Harlow Carr at the end of March. In May I will be at Saltaire Arts Trail for three days and I will need plenty of glass for that too. So the kiln has been on nearly every day and I have been cutting, grinding and cleaning as much glass as I can.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As a small business I always find January/February difficult months for cashflow - not much flows in but plenty flows out to pay for stall fees and submission fees. I try to spread the cost of glass by making my significant purchases when <a href="http://www.warm-glass.co.uk/">Warm Glass </a>has sales and offers. I took advantage of their 12 Days of Christmas offer in December to buy all my teaching glass and my staple glass - large sheets of clear, white and vanilla. I only started planning to buy glass a couple of years ago when I created a Cashflow Forecast and monitored my spend from 2012. Money spent on glass was chaotic and impulsive (and frequent)! so I have reined in my outgoings by setting a budget for each expense. This means I have cut down on buying magazines and books and keeping a record of my mileage. </span></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-59597489214072368122015-02-03T13:54:00.000+00:002015-02-03T13:54:55.351+00:00Create Your Own Glass<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you ever wanted to make your own fused glass platter, dish or wall piece? <span style="font-weight: normal;">I offer individual tuition at my studio in Silsden, West Yorkshire to enable you to make a stunning piece of glass to your own design. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I design, cut and clean all my glass prior to placing it on the kiln shelf for fusing. Most of my glass goes through 2 days of kiln firing (coasters up to four) to achieve the finish that I like - a slightly raised design but all edges are well rounded</span>.</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the glass is fully fired it is washed to remove any resideue of kiln wash and then placed onto a ceramic slump mould. The piece is then fired at a lower and slower rate so that it slumps down into the mould and takes the shape of the platter. This is always the exciting bit - opening the kiln to see the finished dish. Some glass fusers will grind the edges of the dish and refire it to "polish" the edges but if your firing schedule is slow enough this isn't necessary.</span></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 0JS, UK53.9162926 -1.933340499999985753.9151236 -1.9358619999999858 53.917461599999996 -1.9308189999999856tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-82810776152899474292015-01-19T20:39:00.000+00:002015-01-19T20:39:47.031+00:00Glass Fusing Workshops 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Settle, Settle, North Yorkshire BD24 9DN, UK54.0670722 -2.277796599999987854.0664897 -2.2790570999999877 54.0676547 -2.276536099999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-76190330544521006042015-01-08T22:48:00.002+00:002015-01-08T22:58:00.692+00:00Pick and Mix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early in December I was invited to take part in the forthcoming Pick and Mix exhibition at Bradford College <a href="ps://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/about/arts-culture/current-exhibitions/bradford-pick-mix">Dye House Gallery</a> (1<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">3th January until 18th February 2015</span>)<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bradford College holds a huge archive of textile samples dating back to the glory days when West Yorkshire was the centre of excellence in the textiles industry. Many of these samples date back as far at the 18th century and it is a great wealth of resource for anyone studying, or has an interest in textiles.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The exhibition will showcase the work of Yorkshire based artists, makers and designers in response to the archive. I chose two textile samples from The Americas collection because, as I am from a textile background, I am very interested in mid century design. Now they are finished and have been shipped off to Bradford College, I will get to see them in situ at the preview on Tuesday 13th January and I am really keen to see what everyone else's work will be like</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are in the Bradford area pop into The Dye House Gallery, it really is a wonderful exhibition space. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">The Dye House Gallery is open from Monday to Friday, 11am until 4pm; with a special Saturday opening on 7th February 2015, from 10am until 4 pm</span></span></h3>
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Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1AY, UK53.7909723 -1.76158789999999553.7897998 -1.7641093999999951 53.7921448 -1.7590663999999949tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-19475876154732348342014-12-14T20:33:00.000+00:002014-12-14T20:33:45.541+00:00Blog Hop<h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been invited to take part in a Blog Hop by the lovely and creative Becky Moore who makes the most beautiful embroidered velvet bags (see her work <a href="http://www.beckymoorehandbags.co.uk/">HERE</a>) </span></h3>
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T<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he Hop requires me to answer four questions about my work and then nominate another designer maker to carry the Hop on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time of the year I am busy making replacements of stock sold, mostly Christmas decorations and Scandi birds, but I have also been invited to make a piece of glass for an exhibition at Bradford College. The exhibition,<a href="https://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/news/2014/15k-grant-pick-and-mix-archive-exhibition-1154"> Pick and Mix</a>, will showcase work by designer-makers in response to the textile archive at the College. This is a great opportunity for me to move away from my current style of work as I am constrained by the fabric samples I have chosen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have chosen two pieces from the Americas Collection, 1952 and 1956, which are both prints on cotton in limited colours and I have been working through two ideas. ! have been playing with repeat patterns and geometric structures for one piece and trying to create more organic shapes with negative space for the second. Both finished pieces will be slumped into dish forms - because I like my glass to have a practical application. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working with colour is a vital part of my work and the structured piece will be in opal glass, the colours are reminiscent of the 1950s and will imitate the flat, dense orange and black of the fabric sample. The second piece will be made from amber, clear and charcoal glass - all transparent - to give that piece the organic feel that I am after. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No pressure but these pieces have to be finished before the end of the month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I originally studied textile design and worked as an illustrator, therefore my designs for glass are influenced by surface pattern and colour. There is more to designing for glass than just cutting a square of opal glass and slumping it in the kiln. I cut each piece meticulously and grind all the edges before the glass goes into the kiln and I pay great attention to detail. Over the years I have experimented and practised the craft of kiln fired glass until I now know exactly what to expect when I open the kiln up at the end of firing (apart from the odd slippage - very annoying).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many designs simply won't work in glass - they become too "clunky" or "amateurish" - so what looks good on paper doesn't necessarily translate to the finished product. I used to make jewellery using dichroic glass but I gave this up because my designs looked too much like everyone else's. However, I have recently had a rethink about dichroic glass (metal oxides coated onto glass that reflect and refract light to give a jewel-like quality) and, in 2015, I will be designing and experimenting to produce a limited edition range of earrings, brooches and pendants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Dad was a potter and he encouraged my sisters and I to be creative. I always said that textiles was my life but, when I was bought a fused glass decoration, I thought "I wonder if I can do that"? Glass is just another surface for me to decorate with pattern and colour yet, as a medium, it is also quite limiting. Glass is also a slow process which is surprising that I love it because I am not a patient person. However, like textiles, glass is very tactile and attractive to touch. This is the appeal for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a mass of influences that translate into glass - I love retro design, Scandinavian folk design, patchwork quilts and Indian embroidery. All have appeared in some form in my work over the past 15 years and I'm certain I will discover new influences in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's very simple - I take sheets of glass and fuse them to make - glass :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kiln formed glass is stacked onto the kiln shelf, starting from the bottom and adding more pieces, and then fused at high temperatures (up to 840c) until it turns from a super-cooled liquid into nearer its natural state (liquid). I add more glass during a second firing if necessary and can fuse some pieces up to three times before I slump them into moulds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My spun sugar bowls give the appearance of glass that has been dribbled in liquid form across a bowl shape but, in reality, they are made from strips of glass that are laid in a grid across the kiln shelf. Each firing gives the negative space a more rounded edge until they look like holes in the structure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glass loves heat but only when heated and cooled slowly as it expands at a rate of 0.00090 mm per second. Any faster and it will crack with thermal shock. It needs time to rest at a holding temperature both whilst being heated and cooled therefore accurate kiln temperature timings are vital to the process. Badly annealed glass will fracture - either immediately once exposed to room temperature or anything up to six months after. Thank goodness for the digital timer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So here is my nominee for the Blog Hop, talented textile designer Anne Crowther from <a href="https://daisyflorencedesign.wordpress.com/">Daisy Florence Design</a>. Please visit her blog because her work is super. </b></span></div>
Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-60293036550598803482014-10-06T10:01:00.000+00:002014-10-06T10:01:34.474+00:00A Magical Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend I will be taking part in Settle Storytelling Festival (11th and 12th October) at The <a href="http://www.settlestories.org.uk/node/455">Makers' Market </a> in Settle Social Club.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I'm really looking forward to this event - it was really good last year with story tellers at every venue around the town. So, the kiln is on, the glass is hot and I'll have plenty of new stock.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope to see you there. Jo X</span></h3>
Glassprimitifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067465437881178398noreply@blogger.com0Settle, Settle, North Yorkshire BD24 9DW, UK54.0678541 -2.2778018000000254.0666891 -2.28032330000002 54.0690191 -2.2752803000000204tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832332628030078501.post-23334539746243094582014-09-04T21:07:00.000+00:002014-09-04T21:07:22.513+00:00Walk This Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am lucky enough to have been selected to take part in the<a href="https://www.blogger.com/://www.facebook.com/pages/HOST-Artist-Open-Studios/102598567087?fref=ts"> HOST</a> Art Walk in Huddersfield next Thursday 11th September. I will be at Neaversons on Byram Street with two artists, Audrey Erbany and Carol Curtis displaying my glass alongside their art.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know many people in Huddersfield so, If you are in the area next Thursday, please pop in and say hello. You can get a great cuppa (or something stronger) at Neaversons and, bizarrely, they sell popcorn tea! </span></span></h3>
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