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Scottish Landscapes in
Fused Glass and Lead. Guildford 2009
The brief for the design was "We love Scotland
and its landscape. We are keen to have meaning
in our windows and subtle colouring that picks
up the colours in our front garden planting scheme".
I was pleased, I love Scotland too so this was
a design I looked forward to.
The customer has had a whole new front door made
and a frame in matching wood for the porch. My
leaded panels are encapsulated into sealed units
to comply with latest building regulations.
The panels are divided up into sections the proportions
of which are based on the Fibonacci Sequence (Wikipedia)
which starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 etc I have a
serious obsession with this pattern and number
order. It gives form, order and meaning and is
mind blowing in that nature replicates this sequence
in many forms such as pine cones and sunflowers.
The colours of my glass are muted and all tonally
similar yet all have striking differences. I have
cut mouth blown antique next to a wonderful Spectrum
Baroque glass which is in turn next to pieces
of my own hand made fused glass.. I have fused
in silhouettes of grasses and other plants and
beads or grains of clear glass which sparkle and
glisten as if they are water droplets. This is
my favourite fused glass landscape to date.
The customer is over the moon and I am very pleased
with the finished leaded light panels, all of
which were such a delight to make.
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