Elizabeth’s
work is inspired by the natural world. In her elegant and colourful menageries,
each creature has its own quirky character. On the basis of reference photos
from research trips and drawings of initial ideas, she makes her pieces
entirely by hand, using an oxygen and propane torch, a few tools, and coloured
borosilicate glass (a hard glass similar to Pyrex) Larger work incorporates
both hot-glass disciplines by creating colour overlay vessels to frame and hold
her delicate lamp-worked sculptures.
This
class will focus on the manipulation of solid borosilicate rod to create a
small Robin and Barn Owl
Students
will learn the art of lamp working through hands-on torch work and demos. We
will discuss safety, and tool usage, whilst studying heat management and the
use of commercial borosilicate colour.
Day
1 will be the construction of the bodies, practising facial features, placing
eyes and mark making, making cane and applying colour for feathers.
Day
2 will be discussing the importance of hot seals, Owl talon construction and
cane pulling, I will be demoing 2 ways of construction of the feet for our birds.
