Le Verre Catalogue

At 87, Peter Layton remains one of the world's oldest actively practising glass artists. His London Glassblowing studio and gallery nurtures emerging and established talents while cultivating audiences for this relatively undiscovered medium.

Based on Bermondsey Street, the indefatigable Layton continues introducing contemporary glass art to new audiences while persistently advancing his own restless creative practice.

Tim Rawlinson is an internationally renowned glass artist whose work has been featured in major European exhibitions and leading American galleries. His artworks converge light, glass, and creativity to evoke fascination, pushing boundaries and inviting viewers to contemplate light's ethereal nature.

Rawlinson creates highly polished glass surfaces to manipulate the enchanting interplay between the material and light, making this dance the driving force behind his expression.

Anthony Scala's fascination with glass began at age 8 after visiting London Glassblowing. Though initially studying Architectural Model Making, he later interned with Peter Layton, igniting his career as a glass artist.

Over the years, Scala developed a signature style influenced by architecture, mathematics and physics. Enthralled by light and optical illusions, he pieces together refractive glass components to mystify viewers. "Glass is unpredictable. Its ability to bend light keeps me making work - the unexpected is captivating," he explains.

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American artist Danny Lane's formative years in England studying under Patrick Reyntiens and at the Byam Shaw School of Art laid the groundwork for his drawing-centric creative process. Travels in Europe inspired an enduring interest in the relationship between art and architecture, a substantial influence on his work.

Alongside domestic work, Lane received architectural steel and glass sculpture commissions. Still based in his 1989 expanded London studio today, his draftsman origins continue driving a prolific, globally-exhibited output melding fine art with functional design.

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Born and raised in New York, David Patchen discovered his passion for glassblowing in 2001, transitioning from a corporate marketing career to become a full-time artist. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his intricate glass sculptures are renowned for their vibrant colours, complex patterns, and meticulous craftsmanship.

Patchen's artistic process begins with an exploration of pattern design. His pieces often originate from an envisioned colour palette, constructed by arranging and blowing cut segments of patterned cane into dazzling, mosaic-like artworks.

Elliot Walker, the sought-after British glass artist and winner of Netflix's Blown Away season 2, creates visually breathtaking still life compositions in glass. Drawing from an eclectic range of inspirations - abandonment, the human form, environmental catastrophes, and Old Master paintings - Walker explores symbolism and perception through meticulously crafted vessels.

His glass fruit and objects, though glossy and vividly coloured, appear inedible and detached from utility, ironically commenting on societal concepts of beauty and function. Represented by London Glassblowing, Walker's unique glass sculptures are increasingly coveted by collectors internationally.

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Katharine Coleman, one of Britain's foremost contemporary glass engravers, creates captivating works that showcase her technical prowess and artistic vision.

In close collaboration with glassblower Potter Morgan, Katharine designs and supervises the creation of clear lead crystal forms overlaid with coloured glass. Through skillful engraving on the outer surface, she explores the optical properties of glass, drawing the viewer's eye beyond the surface and creating mesmerising illusions of one body floating within another. 

Katharine's inspiration stems from the beauty found in everyday objects, whether in nature or the urban landscape.

Layne Rowe forged his glassblowing career path while studying 3D Design at the University of Central Lancashire in the early 1990s. Initially drawn to metalwork, he instantly loved glass's complexity, heat, and character after trying it, driven by a desire to create beautiful objects through technique and colour applications.

Over his 20-year career with Peter Layton at London Glassblowing, Rowe's distinct artistic voice has evolved. While technical mastery remains paramount, Rowe has expanded into imbuing works with deeper meaning and powerful messages. His artistic journey continually pushes creative boundaries through perfectly controlled yet organic glass explorations of nature's colours and patterns.

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Louis Thompson's glass artworks draw inspiration from taxonomy, scientific research, and medical apparatus. He creates collections of related objects varying in colour, form, and scale, often featuring sequences of free-blown glass vessels in which mysterious forms appear suspended within richly coloured mediums.

Thompson began this body of work after studying Freud's dream analysis writings, with each piece representing a sequential variation on a single form or object. Exploring collections, archives, and change over time, recent installations evoke suspended DNA patterns or alien scientific specimens. The blown and sculpted works manifest Thompson's enduring fascination with collections and archives through their subtle shifts in material, colour, and form.

Monette Larson's glass artwork examines the concept of natural beauty, expressing the idea that our perception of nature's attractiveness links to an innate recognition of its underlying patterns and structures. Drawing inspiration from the living world's imagery and wonders, she looks to molecular structures, nanoscale details, and natural mathematics as foundations.  

Larson's recent work explores the geometry of coral shapes and growth through crocheted forms brought to solid wax, then kiln-cast glass. The making process of refining, altering, cutting, and carving mimics nature's forces impacting theoretically perfect models.

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Nina Casson McGarva's rural French upbringing amid a family of craftspeople has deeply influenced her naturalistic approach to glass art. After training at glassblowing schools in France and Denmark, she began experimenting by combining techniques like casting, fusing, and hot glass manipulation.

Inspired by lichens, seeds, fungi, and seaweed, Casson McGarva seeks to translate nature's repetitive patterns and textures into abstracted glass forms. She draws from woodland elements like bark, leaves, and mushrooms from her Burgundy hometown, aiming to evoke personal connections to the natural world through her organic shapes and surfaces.

Richard Jackson is an award-winning sculptor whose cast glass works distil impressions, observations, and inquiries into moments of pure expression. Working with transparent optical glass, he explores how surfaces and internal volumes bring new visibility to form. Surface treatments alter transparency, while mark-making of varying depth and texture - whether rhythmic, gestural calligraphy or repeating notation - provide layers of history and genesis.

Jackson's 40-year career is marked by thoughtful development and travels worldwide to gather inspirations. After studying 3D Design-Glass at WSCAD and working in studios across the U.S. and Europe, he co founded a Cotswolds studio. An elected Royal Society of Sculptors member, Jackson has created numerous private, corporate, and public commissions embodying his confident, challenging aesthetic vision.

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Tomas Brzon's glass works aim to capture the fundamental nature of the medium itself by accentuating its primary attributes. Through simple geometric forms, reflections, and optical illusions created by combining matte and polished surfaces, he explores glass's essential properties.

Brzon finds inspiration in the shapes and imagery of his everyday surroundings and experiences. Light, in particular, serves as the driving force behind his artistic expression with glass. By harnessing light's interaction with form and surface texture, he produces objects that challenge perception through reflection and refraction.