Gillian was participating in the N Fife Open Studio so it was a great opportunity to go and see her work in person and catch up. I had loved her presentation at the Arts and Science conference at DJCAD. Her glass works are beautiful and reference cosmology and astronomy. I had been considering investigating glass as a material to make a lantern to manifest the work I have been doing on bees and the notion that bees are the guardian of light and plants throughout the winter months.<\/p>\n
Gillian was very generous with her time and knowledge. She works with a glass artist in England and it has taken them several years of working together to create these wonderful pieces that challenge the traditional craft of glass blowing. As I am less than knowledgable about how glass blowing works, I cannot say how the combination of Gillian’s creativity and the glass tradition have come together to make something new. They are beautiful though.<\/p>\n
What I understood clearly though, was that glass blowing requires 2 people. It is an expensive process, not because the material is expensive but because the power used to heat glass to the huge temperatures required is very expensive. Gillian’s advice was to find a glass artist and work in partnership. This is something that I would love to do but will not be able to achieve this, in order to make work, in time for the MFA show on 31st July – around 12 weeks from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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