contemporary glass studio
Jedburgh Abbey Artist-in-residency
During the month of February and March, an exciting artist-in-residency scheme is being piloted at Jedburgh Abbey, an Historic Scotland property. This magnificent ruin of an old monastic Abbey, is the first building that rises to greet you when you drive in over the Northumberland hills into the Scottish Borders town of Jedburgh. This is [...]
Mercator Museum Residency
After a whirlwind week, where I collected lots of data to now be perused, thought about and experimented with, the week long residency also took in a press conference launching the idea of the residency and creating some expectancy of the new work to emerge; the pressure is on! Some great images and connections are emerging, [...]
Mercator Museum Residency
Today was my third day of the one week long residency at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium. The last two days were spent perusing the archives of the Museum and the Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Waasland with much help and enthusiastic support of the staff and volunteers there adding to my basic [...]
Mapping out the future…
Well it has been a while…. Happy New Year! Whilst the year has ended all things Mercator are coming together… I spent the Christmas holiday researching the life of Gerardus Mercator, the cartographer who invented the map projection as we mostly know it today and coined the term atlas. Because of my interest in mapping, [...]
slumping tests…
In preparation for some new work which will be developed over the next year or so, tentatively called Map-i project, to celebrate Mercator and mapping in general, some basic slumping tests are being conducted; placing a sheet of glass over a ceramic ring and then allowed to ‘slump’ through the hole into a mould below. [...]
‘Christmas fusing Frolics’ glass class; successful firing
The ‘Christmas Fusing Frolics’ glass class took place on Sunday and had five adults and five children taking part, with Sarah and Rachel lending a much needed pair of hands in this busy class! The idea of the class was to make your own glass Christmas decorations to which the class took with gusto. The [...]
idagos shop goes live; countdown!
This oblong ring is a fun statement piece which is part of the Yell range, a two-tone yellow selection of glass jewellery. From midnight you will be able to buy these and four other lines online and can pay with all major creditcards with Paypal. Four hours to go until the idagos online shop goes live!
idagos glass shop will go live tomorrow at midnight!
I would like to thank all the lovely visitors who came to the open-studio days and supported the annual sale. It was great to see many repeat customers, checking out the new work and snapping up the old stock! Tomorrow the idagos online shop will go live at midnight with five lines of glass jewellery; [...]
idagos Christmas shopping…
I know it might seem a little early to even utter the word Christmas shopping – which in our house is banned until at least December 1st, but I thought this picture of the new festive glass decorations might get you in the mood for the winter season? They are only available once a year from [...]
fantastic start to the annual open studio days!
The annual open studio days started with a fantastic weekend where work flew off the shelves. Customers have picked up bargain offers on glass pieces; plates, small frames, dishes… The stars are selling well as they do every year and light up many windows in the Borders area! Some new work has also found new [...]