I enjoy using traditional bead making techniques but with a twist.  I work the glass rods hot directly in the flame building up layers of transparent jelly colours over opaque pithy colours. The warm glass is around 800c, and moves a bit like honey, so its important to keep the liquid glass moving continually and steadily whilst working. I add colour and texture, some of the spike details have up to 4 layers of colour, ( I can’t get enough spiky spots !)

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The miniature bottles are my most recent collection, exploring the proportions of bands of colour and texture. There is an Alice in Wonderland potions element to them- eat me ? drink me? Edible fruit like seeds - chilli pepperand pomegranate, kiwi and prickly pear....spikey gooseberry or peppery damson...

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