Description
‘Alignment’
Stained Glass Panel
Featuring in our Hay Festival Exhibition 2023 opening on Saturday May 13
17.5 x 20.3 cm
Collect from gallery £590
Including UK delivery £610
“This one is DARK!! It’s going to need a place to live where there is nothing but sky behind it. The glass itself completely dictated the parameters of the design. The glass had to be cut a certain way so as not to lose that glorious colour in the comet and then I had to take a photo before I blacked the whole piece up so that I would know where the main areas of colour were. I had planned on painting a wee house in the bottom right but with my head in the world of ‘Wild Folk’ I felt the stones speaking to me! One of my favourite ancient sites is Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire as it is surrounded by varied magical and ancient landscapes and is very near to the ancient woodland of Ty Canol . It may be historically inaccurate but I always imagine that this is the area where Pwyll first saw Rhiannon riding but was never able to catch up with her. I’ve no idea why this is such a powerful sensation within me but there it is….. And here the hare is borrowed from a true encounter I had at Long Meg and her Sisters in Cumbria.”
“I completed a degree in English literature at Stirling University (1985 -1989) where I specialised in medieval literature. I was drawn to Stirling by the landscape and the wildness of the mountains and hills. I was not disappointed and was surrounded by a suitable back-drop for the subject I was studying. My love of the language and stories of medieval literature was enhanced by the fact that much of the research material I was reading was illustrated with paintings and simple woodcuts of the period. I became immersed in a magical world of romance, strange words and naïve but arresting images, and it was not long before I began to paint and write for pleasure as well as working for the degree.
After leaving university (with a first class honours degree), I worked in several different jobs and lived in Cumbria for a while before moving to Herefordshire where Mike and I had bought a woodland together with a small group of people. I then returned to college to complete a foundation year in art at Gloucester College of Art and Technology where I was expertly tutored in life drawing and discovered the highly influential work of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. A few months later I got a job working in The Collection Gallery in Ledbury which was a useful insight into the world of selling craft. It was at this time that I married Mike and soon after became a full-time mother of two.
In 1999 I began an evening class in stained glass at Hereford College of Art and Design. I soon gained an OCN in the craft but continued the course for a total of four years until our second child started school. At this point I decided to take things more seriously and invested some money in a kiln and built a studio in which to work.”
