Because of Covid-19 restrictions we held our international exhibition online in October 2022.
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Please note: If you wish to buy one of these exhibits (or would like to commission one of the engravers) then please contact the engraver concerned by referring to their contact details at the end of this page.
Alison Kinnaird: alisonkinnaird@gmail.com
Ami Kitsuda: art501kitsuda@gmail.com
Chris Cole: ccole7527@gmail.com
Christine Hook: christine@barkus.co.uk
Claudia Phipps: info@claudiaphipps.co.uk
Dominic Fonde: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com or dominic@artglasssolutions.com
Elizabeth Crossley: lizziexley@aol.com
Greg Dietrich: macorich12@gmail.com
Herbie Davies: hdavies21@btinternet.com
Ivana Zivkovic: ivanazivkovic1706@gmail.com
Junko Eager: junkoeager@yahoo.co.uk
Kate Kyne: katekyne@talktalk.net
Katharine Coleman: katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk
Louise Hawkins: info@locoglass.co.uk
Magda Biris: magdabiris9@gmail.com
Nancy Arthur-McGehee: artmcg@sbcglobal.net
Sue Burne: sueburneart@gmail.com
Tracey Sheppard: tracey@traceysheppard.co.uk
Victoria Golby: victoriagolby@live.co.uk
Technique: Wheel, drill and sandblast engraved. Waterjet cut optical glass. LED lighting. Aluminium base. Dimensions: 50cm high x 3.05metres wide x 10cm deep
Photo: main image: Shannon Tofts. Detail: Alison Kinnaird
Instagram: alison.kinnaird.glass.harp
Website: www.alisonkinnaird.com
Explanation: This installation depicts the names of battles and conflicts throughout the world and throughout history. There were many more that I did not use. We never seem to learn that warfare does not solve anything in the end.
Technique: Diamond point (Stipple)
Description: I started working on this piece after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. I engraved this glass in the hope of “victory of freedom” and “peace”.
Glass: 90 x 140mm (Baccarat)
Photographer: Ami Kitsuda
Technique: Diamond point (Stipple)
Description: I engraved this work from photographs taken by an acquaintance of mine living in Germany (Y. Benitz, photo donor). I always felt a sense of tenderness in the photos she took, so I wanted to express that in my engraving.
Glass: 73 x 185mm
Photographer: Ami Kitsuda
Description: A 21cm diameter lead crystal bowl drill engraved (in lettering after David Jones) with a quotation from The Merchant on Venice by William Shakespeare, 1598, “The quality of mercy is not strain’d. It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.” The quotation was brought to mind by the gentle ripples in this glass bowl.
A stained glass window celebrating 125 years of Wycombe Abbey School.
Techniques: photographic decals, engraved flashed glass.
Photograph: Claudia Phipps
www.claudiaphipps.co.uk
Information: This project came about as a result of conversations with Wycombe Abbey’s school archivist and a trip to visit the archive of photos which tracks the history of the school with imagery going back to the beginning with Dame Dove, the first headmistress and founder of the school. I had a great time looking through and learning about the way the school operated throughout its long history. Selecting imagery to use was not easy!
I worked with year 7 and 8 to explore ways to use photos in collage before starting to plan the final window design. I was inspired by the beautiful William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Windows in the V&A Museum. Considering how to create the structure to fit in with the gothic revival architecture of the Abbey, I decided to create a fairly classic composition based around the circles and a centre design. I used diamond lathe engraving to create the dove. Working with photographic imagery was new to me, and I spent time exploring and experimenting with the new technique before I was ready to use it. I tried to use all the colours of the houses as well as the blues to represent the school.
I loved working with the archive material and the older images were really fascinating. I combined them with more recent imagery to represent current times.
There are now so many images to choose from, but curating the photos was not an easy task! Altogether, they tell the story of the 125 years of Wycombe Abbey.
The completed stained-glass window is now on display for everyone to see in the main Wycombe Abbey corridor.
Techniques: Stipple engraved
Description: A self portrait of myself wearing a mask during the Covid 19 pandemic stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. The blank magnifying glasses were purchased from a Japanese ¥100 shop, the equivalent of a £1 shop in the UK. As such there are imperfections in the plastic of the handles but the lenses were carefully checked to be blemish free. The idea is that it is possible to take something mundane and transform it into something extraordinary. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Techniques: Stipple engraved
Description: A portrait of my friend and her daughter wearing masks during the Covid19 Pandemic stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Description: I am a regular visitor to Kobe Animal Kingdom, a small zoo near where I live. I particularly enjoy the demonstrations of the birds in flight. This is a portrait of one of the bird-handlers (as ever note the mask), accompanied by a scarlet macaw, stipple engraved onto a magnifying glass lens. This is an ongoing series of portraits that at the time of writing consists of almost forty portraits.
Email address: dominicfondeglass@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominicfondeglass/
Photographer: Yasutaka Akane (ALL PHOTOS)
Techniques: cameo engraved blown glass, 9.5 x 9 x 4 inches
Description: I blew the glass with a layer of white glass on the outside, and a layer of green glass on the inside. The vessel is then hand cut and polished to make the design of the top curvy. I then engrave with diamond wheels into the layer of white to leave the design.
Techniques: cameo engraved blown glass, 6 x 8 inches.
Description: I blew the glass with a layer of opalescent white glass on the outside, and a layer of red glass on the inside. The vessel is then hand cut and polished to make the design of the top scalloped. I then engrave with diamond wheels into the layer of white to leave the design. The figures are my renditions of a Mexican artist (Jose Guadalupe Posada) drawings from the 1930’s.
Techniques: cameo engraved blown glass, 10.5 x 10 x 4 inches.
Description: I blew the glass with a layer of red glass on the outside, and clear glass on the inside. The vessel is then hand cut and polished to make the design of the top curvy. I then engrave with diamond wheels into the layer of red to leave the design. The texture in the clear is made with a larger diamond wheel.
Photographer: Daniel Loeza (ALL PHOTOS)
Techniques: Diamond Drill
Description: Series of eight images of Ukrainian Dolls on large 43 cm diameter plate.
Photographer: Jon Jefferies
Technique: stipple, drill and sandblasting
Description: Clear glass panel based on a wooden frame and illuminated with LED lights 20 x 30in.
Information: My Angels represent untouchable, unconditional, eternal love.
Technique: stipple, drill and sandblasting
Description: Clear glass panel based on a wooden frame and illuminated with LED lights 20 x 30in.
Information: My Angels represent untouchable, unconditional, eternal love.
Technique: stipple, drill and sandblasting
Description: Clear glass panel based on a wooden frame and illuminated with LED lights 16 x 30in.
Information: Mystic and extraordinary beauty of the deep ocean.
Website: www.izglass.com
Instagram: @artivanar
Techniques: Wheel and drill engraved
Description: 18cmH x 18cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished, wheel and drill engraved. Hong Kong seems to belong now to the East and yet still clings on tenaciously to the West. Today this situation has become grave. On my bowl, the great dragon of China has lost the pearl of wisdom from his mouth and now careers around, breathing wild fire over the roofs of the modern apartment blocks of Hong Kong, roaring at everyone and everything in wild abandon and maddened rage at their impudence. People take to the boats to flee as others arrive. I wanted the piece to imitate Chinese porcelain goldfish bowls (to emphasise the helplessness of the inhabitants).
Photographer: Sylvain Deleu
Techniques: Wheel and drill engraved
Description: 20cm H x 22.5cm diameter grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Loco Glass of Cirencester. The old buildings of Bermondsey Street lend themselves to wrapping around this bowl and wrapping around Peter Layton’s London Glassblowing Gallery, for whose 45th anniversary I engraved this bowl.
Photographer: courtesy of Peter Layton
Techniques : Wheel and drill engraved
Description : 13.8cm high x 17cm diameter ruby on yellow glass double overlay on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved.
Photographer : courtesy of Adrian Sassoon.
Description: Miron violet glass, 3.5 x 7 inches
Technique: Diamond drill engraved + low fire Vitrea 160 paint
Photographer: Nancy Arthur-McGehee
Website: www.nancyarthurmcgehee.com
Explanation: In early 2020, I planted two small passionflower vines hoping they would grow enough to cover a pair of trellises that border the entrance of my garden and home. They have thrived. Covering the trellises within the first year, they now stretch across my entire front fence. People walking by stop to enjoy the beautiful flowers and watch the butterflies they attract. While my original intention had been simply to enjoy the flowers and their fruit, I could not have anticipated the delight I would feel watching my neighbours pause for a moment to admire their beauty, and perhaps feel a little relief from the difficult days and worries of the pandemic. These passionflowers have truly been a gift. It is with great respect that I design and engrave them on glass.
Email: tracey@traceysheppard.co.uk
Website: www.traceysheppard.co.uk
Instagram: tracey.sheppard
Technique: Sandblast, Acid etching and Drill.
Glass: Lo-iron toughened. Size: 1600 x 2300mm
Photographer: Nick Carter
Explanation: These doors which were commissioned to allow light into the church and make it more welcoming, and to celebrate the life of Michael Henty, a parishioner. The vine was chosen as the central motif. An ancient Christian symbol, and singularly suitable for a family which hast for many years been involved in importing fine wines! Words from John 15:5 “I am the vine & you are the branches” were settled upon. The lettering layout is designed to be read from both outside and inside the building. In addition to this central feature various other emblems, significant to the life of Mr Henty are incorporated. These are: The Madonna lily (from the Eton coat of arms), Two angels from the Mappa Mundi (Mr Henty was Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford) and the family coat of arms are enclosed in vine leaves. A bell hangs from the tendril at the top of the vine. Bells have summoned the faithful for generations. Its inclusion also commemorates the fact that Michael Henty was a Bencher at Lincolns Inn where, traditionally, the bell would have tolled at his passing.
The original design proposal was drawn up to full scale in finite detail on layout paper before being transferred onto the glass in preparation for a combination of engraving techniques. Sandblast first. I hand cut the stencils with a very sharp scalpel. Acid etching next. I painted on resist (embossing black) to protect various sections from the attentions of the acid. Finally, I added all the details with a variety of abrasive stones, diamonds and
polishers using the drill.
Technique: Drill
Photographer: Tracey Sheppard
Size: 22cm wide x 30cm long x 8.5cm high
Glass: Dartington Pebble Bowl.
Explanation: This bowl was commissioned to mark a special birthday and to celebrate a much-loved family home. The brief given was that I should include as many important elements from a list provided as possible. It is not intended to be straight forward house portrait. Rather, it is a personal record of many, many happy memories and the visual reminders of them. The design is first carefully drawn on the underside of the bowl using a spirit-based pen. Then almost everything is back engraved to be viewed through the thickness of the glass. There are one or two elements which spill onto the front to draw the viewer into the scene. The whole is then drill engraved using a combination of abrasive stones, diamond burrs and polishers.
Technique: Drill
Photographer: Tracey Sheppard
Size: 18.5cm
Glass: Small charger blown by Neil Wilkin
Explanation: A small, personal celebration of a big event. A nod to my love of illuminated manuscripts. Designed to bring together the majesty, history and traditions of the monarchy with the joy and fun of the street parties and special community events held across the nation. Back engraved using a selection of abrasive stones, diamond burrs and polishers.
