Cathryn Shilling

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I first studied glass in Connecticut having moved there with my family following a successful graphic design career. After further study in London, I have begun to create a varied collection of kiln formed and hot glass.

My years in graphic design have allowed me to develop skills in a wide range of creative processes and products, and the move to glass seemed natural and spontaneous. I have always found glass a fascinating and seductive material. For me it is the perfect medium, giving me creative and technical freedom and enabling me to produce something tactile, tangible and enduring, which I hope will give much pleasure to the viewer, as it has to me its maker.

I am fascinated by the interplay between the different techniques of kiln formed and blown glass. Through my work I am exploring the fluidity of glass as a liquid, its sculptural quality as a solid as well as its transparency in the use of colour and light. I am experimenting by combining these qualities with other materials such as metals and ceramic transfers and by incorporating pre-fused components either directly into blown glass or as elements in composite works.

I am a member of the Cohesion Glass Network and the Contemporary Glass Society.