I feel very honoured to have been invited by Jonathan Cooke to exhibit some pieces in a group exhibition at Ilkley Manor House, West Yorkshire during September.
Jonathan leads fantastic, inspirational glass painting workshops, as a visiting artist at the Architectural Glass Department of Swansea Metropolitan University. I learnt such a lot attending these.
This little piece was commissioned as a gift for people who subsequently came for a mini crash course!
These hardy souls made lovely pieces despite the freezing conditions. Using a sgraffito method to scratch through the painted surface on the glass - the very individual results are below.
Between everything it's been a lovely, busy couple of months. I have had the east window of Eglwys y Santes Fair of Ystrad Fflur on the bench for restoration.
Wonderful to see it back in place in the middle of last month.
Just in time for a weekend of launching the Strata Florida Project to preserve the Great Abbey Farm for future generations.
The mono-printing workshop was on Saturday. Lovely to see people being so, so productive and creative. The three attending were able to spread themselves all over the studio - so there were prints everywhere! With Fiona being a total newcomer to mono-printing - her enthusiastic "Wow, how did THAT happen" every now and then was a tonic!
Thank you ladies for coming. Diolch o galon am ddod.
Diolch yn fawr! To you who came to the studio - it was good to see you working at the light table, painting on glass - with lovely results.
It was a change to have people in the studio - a welcome change since usually my work is a fairly solitary affair.