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.

Nell Beale, known as Coucou Manou, graduated in 1994 from an HND Design course. She became a self-employed furniture maker, creating commissioned pieces for private clients, architects, and interior designers.

Based near Aix-en-Provence, Nell's latest collection, Wonderland, showcases her return to handcrafting unique, decorative pieces, using Valchromat and hand-held carving tools.

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.

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.

David Reekie, an eminent English glass sculptor, uses drawing and glass casting to express his unique vision of the human condition. His work, held in museums worldwide, including London's Victoria and Albert Museum and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, showcases his innovative approach to lost wax casting.

David's main techniques are casting and lost wax casting, which allow him to explore ideas before working with glass. He models in clay and wax, gradually building and refining concepts. He has developed the use of ceramic enamel colours, both in the glass and on mould surfaces, to mirror effects from his drawings.

David Patchen and James Devereux began their unique collaborative partnership in 2019 after first crossing paths through social media. Their creative union emerged from a shared vision, combining Patchen's intricate patterning with Devereux's distinctive approach to hot sculpting.

Using Patchen's vibrant murrine patterns as the canvas, Devereux sculpts his sinuous, biomorphic shapes. Devereux's fluid, naturalistic forms breathe life into the abstract geometries, integrating them into evocative sculptural works.

Having studied together at the Royal College of Art, Hanne Enemark and Louis Thompson quickly recognised their collaborative potential. Their recent projects - Banyan, Ore, Penumbra and Karman - demonstrate the potential of two leading glass artists and combine immense skill and creativity. Featured in public collections worldwide, their works explore the tension between chaos and order, fragility and strength, internal structure and external form.

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.

Graeme studied Fine Art Sculpture at the University of Brighton and has spent the last fifteen years exploring materials and processes through various creative industries, including costume design, props for film and theatre, art fabrication, and museum exhibition set builds. He believes a deep understanding of materials broadens creative possibilities. His passion for wood stems from its tactile quality, warmth, and natural patterns. Graeme's choice of ash reflects its rich history in the UK and his commitment to using locally sourced timber.

Hanne Enemark holds a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art, obtained in 2010, and a BA from Bornholm's Glass and Ceramics School. She has served as Denmark's representative in the Emerging Artist category at the European Glass Context and has been honoured with Elle Decoration's New Designer of the Year Award.

Hanne's work focuses on minimalistic simplicity and beauty, experimenting with contrasts to create visual tension. Inspired by minerals and metals, she combines physics exploration with paradoxical compositions. She manipulates glass, pushing beyond conventional techniques to reveal its hidden potential.

Harry Morgan, a Manchester-based emerging artist, has gained international recognition since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2014. His work, exhibited widely and held in prestigious collections like the Victoria & Albert Museum, reimagines ancient crafts of glassblowing and concrete casting.

Harry's artistic approach combines intuition, geometry, and material expression, challenging physical and cultural connotations of his chosen materials. He focuses on the interaction of opposites: transparent and opaque, mass and void, robust and fragile. Through contrast, he aims to highlight materials' true qualities, creating harmony and balance.

Heike Brachlow's finely balanced glass sculptures invite physical interaction, with their colours and optical effects encouraging playful engagement. Her PhD research focused on the interplay of colour, form, and light in solid transparent glass, leading her to create a unique glass palette using metal oxides. Brachlow's polychromatic hues shift subtly under changing light, reflecting her fascination with movement and transformation. Without defined bases, her sculptures can be viewed from multiple angles, effortlessly shifting with a touch, embodying her experimental, investigative approach to art.

Devereux, a glass industry veteran since 1999, has collaborated with numerous skilled artisans. In 2008, he established his own studio, later partnering with Katherine Huskie to create Devereux and Huskie Glassworks in Wiltshire. They craft pieces for globally acclaimed artists and designers.

Devereux's work often examines our relationship with ancient artefacts, exploring the allure of untold stories of worship, sacrifice, and survival embedded within them. His creations reflect a fascination with the imaginative spark and craftsmanship of our ancestors, capturing both historical intrigue and artistic beauty.

Joseph Harrington, a talented cast glass sculptor, holds a BA from Buckinghamshire University College and an MA from the Royal College of Art. His accolades include the 'Best in Show' at the 2017 British Glass Biennale and a gold medal at the 2018 Bavarian State Prize. His works feature in prestigious collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Joseph is renowned for his innovative 'lost ice process', using salt to sculpt ephemeral ice models for direct casting. This technique yields textured surfaces, reflecting erosion and the transient nature of creativity. His work aims to capture time and movement within permanent objects

Katharine Coleman, a leading British glass engraver, creates captivating works that blend technical skill with artistic vision. Collaborating with glassblower Potter Morgan, she designs clear lead crystal forms overlaid with coloured glass. Her masterful engraving on the outer surface explores glass's optical properties, creating illusions of floating bodies within.

Katharine's inspiration comes from everyday beauty in nature and urban landscapes. Her work draws viewers beyond the surface, showcasing her unique ability to manipulate glass as an artistic medium.

Layne Rowe discovered his passion for glassblowing while studying 3D Design in the 1990s. Initially drawn to metalwork, he fell in love with glass's complexity and character.

Over a 20-year career at London Glassblowing, Layne developed a distinct artistic voice, evolving from technical mastery to creating works with deeper meaning. His art continually pushes boundaries, exploring nature's colours and patterns through perfectly controlled yet organic glass forms.

Liam Reeves has been a professional glassmaker since graduating with a BA in 3D Design from Middlesex University in 1998. Working alongside renowned UK glassmakers, he has explored the evolution of technology and its impact on human experience.

Bridging the natural and virtual worlds, Reeves examines the transforming concept of craftsmanship, where digital skill sets parallel material craft. Through his pieces, he prompts viewers to reconsider how advancing technologies are reshaping our interactions with and perception of objects and environments.

Louis Thompson's glass artworks draw inspiration from science and taxonomy. He creates collections of related objects, often featuring free-blown vessels with mysterious forms suspended in coloured mediums. Influenced by Freud's dream analysis, each piece represents a variation on a single form.

Recent installations evoke DNA patterns or alien specimens, reflecting Thompson's fascination with collections and archives. His blown and sculpted works showcase subtle shifts in material, color, and form, exploring change over time.

Sophie Thomas and Louis Thompson's collaborative works blend design and sustainability. Thomas, a designer and activist, originally commissioned Thompson, acclaimed glass artist best known for his perceptual explorations of materiality, for a collaborative award project back in 2012.

Through their compelling collaborative practice, Thomas and Thompson forge sustainable design thinking and spotlight environmental advocacy.

Monette Larson's glass art explores natural beauty, linking our perception to innate recognition of underlying patterns. Inspired by the living world, she draws from molecular structures and natural mathematics.

Her recent work examines coral geometry through crocheted forms transformed into kiln-cast glass. Larson's process of refining, altering, and carving mimics nature's forces on theoretically perfect models, reflecting the interplay between ideal forms and organic reality.

Nick Mount has been one of the leading figures in the Australian studio glass movement since the early 1970s. Over the subsequent decades, as both teacher and practitioner, he has made a significant contribution to the development of glass as an artistic medium in this country. Nick's work is represented in major private and public collections including state galleries and the National Gallery of Australia.

In his quest to befriend the enigmatic medium of glass, Nick has spent years honing his skills and understanding. His work often explores the value of craftsmanship and how it shapes our cultural identity and personal expression.

Nina Casson McGarva's naturalistic glass art stems from her rural French upbringing in a family of craftspeople. Trained in France and Denmark, she combines casting, fusing, and hot glass manipulation. Inspired by lichens, seeds, fungi, and seaweed, Casson McGarva translates nature's patterns into abstracted forms. Drawing from woodland elements of her Burgundy hometown, she creates organic shapes and surfaces that evoke personal connections to the natural world.

Richard Jackson, an award-winning sculptor, creates cast glass works that capture pure expressions of his observations and inquiries. He explores form through transparent optical glass, manipulating surfaces and internal volumes. His 40-year career, marked by thoughtful development and global inspirations, began with studies at WSCAD and work in U.S. and European studios. Jackson co-founded a Cotswolds studio and is an elected Royal Society of Sculptors member. His confident, challenging aesthetic vision is evident in numerous private, corporate, and public commissions, showcasing his mastery of glass as an artistic medium.

SHY Design Studio is a Glasgow based practice working from both a design and artistic perspective, using a narrative driven process to explore their own interpretations of traditional archetypes. Skilled in working across a range of materials they consider noble, natural, and sustainable whilst exploring production skills both time honoured and modern. Material and process are intrinsic to the stories they tell, these narratives are often rooted in design and craft-based histories, resultantly there is a history of furniture, craft and material laced throughout their pieces. SHY have exhibited widely in Europe including at Collect, Future Heritage, Dutch Design Week and Salone del Mobile.

Tomáš 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.