New Product Round-up

Since our sellers have been busy since the start of the year coming up with new product designs for the shop we thought it was about time we showed off a few of them. All the products below have arrived in-store in the last couple of months, and one of them is even a shop exclusive!

Bethanie Yeong Papercuts has added these intricate pram glass papercuts, the perfect gift to welcome a new arrival:

 

These ponchos made from the 100% recycled wool of the Fab Blankets are a Fabrication exclusive by Rowan Tree Designs, and priced at just £30:

Emma Manners has started producing a new range of framed collages based on her popular card designs. Priced at £15, they use a range of handmade papers, photo images and stamped motifs:

This beautiful geometric jewellery and homeware is new from Twice Fired glass, and is joined by a black and gold range inspired by the microscopic world:

Zoe Barber has added some beautiful new pieces of silver and brass jewellery: 

And last but not least, kids number T-Shirts are now available in ages 1-9 from Font Not Found. Priced at £15 they are available to order in-store now:

 

Seller in The Spotlight.....Glass Bubble

Several years ago I attended a stained glass course at my local education centre (Swathmore in Leeds), and I found a passion for creating glass pieces using traditional stained glass techniques – both using copper foil for smaller pieces and lead for larger ones.

 

After becoming more proficient in the basics, I decided to invest in the equipment I needed to enable me to continue to develop my skills at home – that was the beginning of the journey, after filling all the windows in our home with glass creations, I began to give them away for any occasion!, and then friends and family started to commission pieces, this then led to my trying my hand at selling to the unsuspecting wider world!

And so evolved Glass Bubble – I love the translucent qualities of bubbles and although most of my work is nothing what so ever to do with bubbles, it seemed as good a name as any!

I find that I have a constant stream of creations waiting in my mind – and often the only thing keeping them there is the time it takes to make them reality. It is a time consuming process and many of the pieces that I make are often very delicate and fragile.

Each piece is made individually, by hand, many are one off, which may be recreated, although never exactly the same.

I am happy to consider commissions.

Thanks for reading!

Lucy

Spotlight on The Seller...Jewellery By Trudy

Jewellery By Trudy grew out of a lifelong passion for art and design and a love of jewellery. 

 I work out of my studio based in Morley, Leeds.

Over the last 8 years my business has grown and developed leading me on a thoroughly enjoyable creative journey.

Initially my work was around understanding and working with silver incorporating semi precious stones, Swarovski crystal and Murano glass. I have always been drawn to colour and sparkle so it was an amazing discovery when I found dichroic glass. Here was the medium that allowed me to work with all my favourite things! 

spotlight on the seller.. Mirror Mirror

Mandy Maynard is a designer and artist with over 20 years’ experience in graphic design and fine art printmaking. Having recently set up her own studio, complete with a state-of-the art laser etcher, she has been busy designing and making etched mirror and glass homewares.

The hero designs are stunning lightboxes which are truly unique and innovative. These illuminated artworks provide a vibrant vocal point for any room in the house, particularly welcoming in hallways and living rooms, and are a refreshing change to static framed artworks.

Mandy also makes coasters and candle plates which feature whimsical lace doily motifs, enjoying the interplay between soft vintage lace and the hard clean mirror surface. Commissions are frequently taken, and a number of children’s lightbox designs have been created, as they work very well as night lights or nursing lights. Also recently work has started on etching glass splashbacks for kitchens, which look stunning when illuminated from behind.

Each design starts life in a sketchbook bursting with ideas and then it is drawn up by Mandy using professional graphic software, and etched on the laser. Top quality materials are used.

They use LED light sources which last for thousands of hours, are the most energy efficient lights available.

Spotlight on the seller - Hart of glass

The Hart of Glass  seeks to offer a range of unique fused, slumped, recycled and stained glass giftware, jewellery and homeware at affordable prices. 

Designed and made in Leeds in my home studio, I take inspiration from nature, colour,  light, textures and used objects. A large range of glass is used in my one-off pieces and each one is meticulously created with love.

All jewellery is made by firing multiple layers of the finest ‘Bullseye’ and dichroic art glass to achieve a various multi-dimensional effects.

Recycled bottles are chosen carefully for their colour, shape, texture or design which impacts on their final use. Bottles are kiln-fused flat to make cheeseboards, or slumped into shapes for dip dishes, spoon rests, candle bridges and plates. 

I use special enamel paints for commission messages or patterns, for instance on a champagne bottle for an anniversary.

I also enjoy enhancing colourless and transparent glass with inclusions such as coloured ground glass (frit), wafer thin glass and copper sheet or wire. 

I use this technique in my key rings, plaques, coasters and bowls. Again, this provides me with a wide scope of possible designs and products, which are always developing.

Bespoke and commission pieces are always welcome. Please email me with your design idea to thehartofglass@gmail.com

“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
~  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Spotlight on the seller - Glass By Lydia Haines

Seller of the Week

Glass By Lydia Haines

I am a Leeds-based kiln-formed glass artist. Much of my work is about life, energy and movement. I am passionate about life, about living it to the full. I want my audience to engage my work in the same way - to indulge their senses, to feel, touch, delight and be stimulated.

I am fascinated by the effects of light on the hues and tones of the world around me and I love to transpose the vigor found in nature into my work. Using glass as an artistic medium allows me to work with light, manipulating its reflection, refraction and transmission through texture and form.

My Symphony series is a collection of original wall art pieces and 3D objets. I transpose the rhythm of the changing seasons and light on the enchanting Yorkshire landscape – the hills and dales, moorland, rivers and shorelines – into the rhythms and patterns within my work. I work with glass as painters would with paints. I hand cut, juxtapose and layer fine strips of glass to build up texture and create depth as painters would with paints on canvas. The collage is then kiln-fired to create a symphony of light, colour and texture.

I work to private and corporate commissions, offering a broad selection of visually arresting fused glass panels, wall art pieces, objet d’art and designer jewellery.  

Lydia Haines

Unit 16 Patrick Studios,

St Mary’s Lane, LS9 7EH

Designs@vitrumglassdesigns.com

www.vitrumglassdesigns.com

07949 148 175