Emotional Hoops is a series of ten pieces in varying sizes, each one exploring the world of crewel embroidery through the very different language of glass.
I've always been drawn to embroidery — to the rhythm of it, the patience, the way texture and colour build slowly into something rich and alive. These pieces began as an attempt to understand that through my own medium: to find in glass something of the same tactile pleasure, the same quiet intensity.
At the largest scale in the series, Splendour has room to be genuinely bold — and it takes that opportunity fully. A sweeping blossom motif fills the frame in glowing blue and ruby red, with notes of yellow and pink that animate the palette and stop it from ever becoming heavy.
These are the colours of medieval glass at its most confident — regal, life-affirming, unafraid. The foliate forms carry that same quality: exuberant and richly worked, the kind of surfaces you want to spend time with, finding new detail each time.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 40cm Diameter
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd.
Emotional Hoops is a series of ten pieces in varying sizes, each one exploring the world of crewel embroidery through the very different language of glass.
I've always been drawn to embroidery — to the rhythm of it, the patience, the way texture and colour build slowly into something rich and alive. These pieces began as an attempt to understand that through my own medium: to find in glass something of the same tactile pleasure, the same quiet intensity.
At the largest scale in the series, Splendour has room to be genuinely bold — and it takes that opportunity fully. A sweeping blossom motif fills the frame in glowing blue and ruby red, with notes of yellow and pink that animate the palette and stop it from ever becoming heavy.
These are the colours of medieval glass at its most confident — regal, life-affirming, unafraid. The foliate forms carry that same quality: exuberant and richly worked, the kind of surfaces you want to spend time with, finding new detail each time.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 40cm Diameter
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd.
