Friday, 2 December 2011

Final week of the Metal and Glass Casting Residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Clare files and cleans up her metals

some of my Bronze pieces before patina

 
and the snow begins to fall

Open Studios at Scottish Sculpture Workshop
All works in progress by myself Lisa Anne Bate, Katya Izabel Filmus, Kate Hobby and Clare Flatley 


Fold, Iron by Clare Flatley

Dragon heads, Bronze & Cast Glass by Clare Flatley

Fold, Cast Glass by Clare Flatley

Animal Organs, Iron & Cast Glass by Kate Hobby

Identity frames, Cast Glass by Katya Izabel Filmus

The following pictures is a development of works by myself (Lisa Anne Bate) which are all curently untitled
Cast Glass pieces



Bronze and patina



 to be continued...!

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Final week at North Lands Creative Glass

  

Some interesting effects from my reservoirs

 
 
Gaffer Billets ready to go into a mould for firing

Clare describes cracking open her moulds
"like opening a Christmas present!"

revealing a new species...

curious - this one is face down!






Kate cracks open her moulds
  
Kate's Banas glass heart, lungs and kindneys 

A few of Clare's results




Clare gets a large flower pot ready for her 20kg of glass core cast piece!

the mould waiting in the kiln for the flower pot
more of Kate's moulds being prepared with Bullseye glass

and more of my results...





Visit the website below to view an article by Christine Gunn from Caithness Horizons in Thurso, she reports on the presentations given by us four artists on our experience so far, during our residency at North Lands Creative Glass and Scottish Sculpture Workshop

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 2 glass artists & 2 sculptors

We will be showing 'work in progress' during an open studio at Scottish Scupture Workshop - Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th November - our final week of the Metal and Glass Casting Residency   

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all at North Lands Creative Glass for a great experience, see you again in the near future on a return visit to Caithness 




Monday, 14 November 2011

Kiln happenings - Week 6 at North Lands!

 
Gaffer casting frit waiting to go into a mould

Good bye moulds... see you soon... behave your selves!


Clare tidies her refractory for a core cast piece 

Kate perfecting her waxes... hearts, lungs, kidneys...  

Kates hands

Hand built moulds that look like...
A Stone Circle
He wants a Hug before he is fired!
A Seal head?!

More moulds for another firing

And a few of my creations



Ummmmh - complex -please don't break!

And we begin to reveal our glass objects - Good Kiln Firing!


Katya is pleased with her results!