About
A landscape painter with 30 years experience, Linda came to glass in 2012 looking to extend the reach of her medium. She has since won several prizes for her work in glass including The Warm Glass Prize (2012) and the Adrian Henri Poetry in Art Prize (2013). She has exhibited work at Northlands Glass, Caithness, London Glassblowing Gallery, Glasrijk Glass Festival Tubbergen, The Netherlands, Wexford, Ireland, and has twice been selected for the British Glass Biennale. Linda has recently completed No Place Like Home a collaboration with other women glass makers internationally illuminating domestic violence which is currently being shown as part of the International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge.
Statement
“I am drawn by the material and metaphoric possibilities glass holds. Glass is a shape shifter, as a material it holds contradiction, it is both strong and fragile, opaque and transparent, liquid and solid, it transmits and reflects light and is ancient and modern. It is inherently organic and elemental, it can be a barrier and can also facilitate proximity. I am interested in the potential glass has to manipulate light in order to articulate and illuminate feeling and connection in a world where there are already too many objects and contributing to the culture of consumerism feels problematic.”
See Linda’s work in Never Done exhibition here.