Mercuryglass

Mercuryglass

Glassblowing as an art form and an amazingly choreographed ‘dance’ is a wonderful thing to watch. I have spent many hours in glass workshops in Stourbridge, Broxbourne, Torrington, Ulverston, Dungannon, Waterford, Krakow, Budapest, Bucharest…and Prague!

My time visiting Prague has been a joy and on one such visit I discovered the magical ‘Mercury Glass’ that is a traditional technique going back to the early days of Murano.

I loved the intensively reflective quality that is achieved and how this electrified different colours such as cobalt blue, so I decided to create a collection that teamed simple modernist shapes with the energy of the technique to produce a series of show-stopping bowls and vases.

We had a real commercial hit on our hands once they were launched and to top it off the collection made it into The Sheffield Millennium Gallery and the V&A Museum…