Glass artist
Location: Newtonmore

Anne enjoys many different forms of art but over the past three years has concentrated on working with fused glass. This is a technique she began in Northern Ireland at the Flowerfield centre  in Portstewart shortly after completing an art foundation course, UUCertHE in Fine and Applied Art, in 2007. On moving to the Cairngorms National Park in 2010 she found no local glass kiln so bought her own and started selling her work commercially from then. Her work is now to be found at Loch an Eilein gallery at Aviemore, the Craft Lounge craft shop in Grantown and the Highland Wildlife Park in Kincraig.

Anne is a scientist (virologist) by training and finds that glass fusing satisfies her creative urges while also requiring a scientific approach to experimenting with firing programmes. She loves colour and her work is bright and colourful, rather than subtle! Her work encompasses jewellery, coasters, bowls and wall hangings, and she also welcomes commissions. She is also starting to give fused glass classes, both to groups and individuals.

Glass fusing involves fusing pieces of glass at temperatures of around 800°C followed by slow cooling; this temperature can be varied in order to retain more texture in the glass. Anne uses high quality handrolled Bullseye glass. Metal or kiln-proof paper can be added between the glass layers. Her jewellery uses dichroic glass, which has been coated with multiple coatings of metal oxides that result in glass that appears bicoloured, as some wavelengths of light pass through the glass while others are reflected.

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Croft Dhu,
Strone Road,
Newtonmore,
Inverness-shire  PH20 1BA

Tel: 01540 673504