This is one of many glass creations new this year, using a driftwood stand for a table or window sill, made for the Devon Open Studios 2024:
Sept 6-8th, 13-15th, 20-22nd
Come & visit my summerhouse no.8 EX8 1EH
Winter Porch Panel
After a few years of designing & making in between other work, I completed placing this in my porch door. It’s symbolic of my family - it’s a bit of a cliche; Home is where the heart is
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Winter Workshops
Here is a birthday gift in motion ….
The process of making these bespoke leaded & etched glass panels …
Thankyou ladies 🤩
For future workshops & commissions email Deborah@glasswings.co.uk
Devon Open Studios 🤩
Ali, Sophie & myself had a wonderful time meeting new & old friends, & family in my summerhouse for this exhibition in September.
Our choose mediums, using our original ideas inspired by our environmental observations, was an effort kept traditional art making alive: printmaking(Ali), water-coloured illustration for paper & fabrics( Sophie), & traditional glass painting & leading ( myself).
Thank you to all who supported us, & helped to share the love of coastal & landscape environment via our creative work.
For any glass queries :
Email: deborah@glasswings.co.uk
Prepping for Devon Open Studios Sept 23
This is my latest work to display in Devon Open Studios Sept '23 😆
I'll be collaborating with Sophie Coleman & Ali Pawson. I will keep you informed of further developments...
Summer Exhibition
Big shout out to the Lost and Found initiative for inviting me to exhibit my new coastal themed glass panels, as part of a Local exhibition at John Lewis in Exeter recently.
They are now currently at the Exeter Lost & Found gallery: https://www.lostandfoundart.co.uk/pages/about-exeter
The panels also raise awareness of local ecology on the Exe river :https://tidelines.uk/
Welcome to Glasswings
Welcome to Glasswings
This blog is a selection of my glass work in public & private, interior and garden spaces; etched,traditional painted and fused glass and lead.
My work often underlines philosophical and spiritual ideas. Each image reflects the sometimes fragile yet colourful aspects of life, capturing the beautifully coloured movement of light.
My hope is that these images, as they have for myself, will lighten your path.
If you are interested in a commission or tuition, please bare in mind I am based in East Devon.
Please email: deborah@glasswings.co.uk
Once upon a time...
Traditionally painted glass by myself, inspired by living by the sea...
I became first interested in glass at 16 years old at college through vacuum forming transparent plastics - it was thought the project would better in blown glass. However, I was drawn to the use of colour, space and movement in and around the layers of plastic, rather than a solid mass.
I subsequently wrote a study about how mythological narrative was evident in three works of art; one of which was a John Piper window at Coventry Cathedral.
At the end of my A-levels, I decided to continue my interest in decorative glass in architecture by enrolling on a degree course in architectural glass in Swansea, Wales. I found that my interest in light as a natural source, and its spiritual quality was the inspiration for my designs and understanding of glass.
It can be decorated in such ways to control the movement of light, the intensity of colour, and the projection of image and form to create a visual narrative in an architectural space.
Over the years, I have visited many magnificent Cathedrals, beautiful intimate chapels, also other private and public spaces.
I have been often mesmerised by the influence that glass windows have in the space; uniquely, hour by hour, and also season by season, as the sunlight changes.
As my work develops, I hope to be increasingly sensitive to the influence various glass technique-controlled light has in an architectural and garden space.
Not only to create beauty and intrigue, but to provide an sensory experience of wholeness and joy, as described by one of my most recent clients during lockdown.
Please contact me if you would like to join me on this journey in some way: a commission, exhibition or simply an email: deborah@glasswings.co.uk
Lockdown Commission 2020
Courses
Beginners Glass Panel courses
Choose to learn a range of glass techniques:
- ancient leading craft,
- etching
- engraving
- copper foil
Spaces available for 5 week group spring courses :
starting on a wed or thurs 27 & 28th Feb - 27th & 28th March,
@Devon Decorative Glass EX8 1PZ
1 to 1 tuition/one off workshop available
Deborah Bailey
BA(hons)Architectural Glass, Cttls, Insured
email: deborah@glasswings.co.uk
Garden Glass Panel
£335 & post & packaging
School Memorial Window
The theme is movement, sun, sea and boats. I have tried to convey this through the use of the lead lines and bold colours.
Memorial Window
Community Arts Project 2013
Many people have commented, and is thankfully especially appreciated by the local residents where it is placed.
Flower Power
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My Latest Commission -wood and glass sculpture!
My husband and I installed this sculpture on the 9th August 2009, funded by the Lottery Commission.
This community project was a year in the planning and making, together with staff and volunteers Aylesbury Youth Action. We were finally relieved for it to find its home in the sensory garden of Aylesbury's " The Grove" respite home, Buckinghamshire.
The brief from the young people using the home:
*glass framed using natural resources
*bright colours
*shapes that were circular/curvy/arches/meandering
*textures that rippled and bubbled
*to work with the sound of wind chimes/running water/rustle of leaves in the trees near by
*possible themes: the journey of water through leaves/trees, the fun in how nature moves, our relationship with nature.
I hope they all enjoy touching and seeing it in the garden in the years to come!
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