Siddy Langley Glass
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THE GALLERY IN THE FRIARS
THE GALLERY IN THE FRIARS
Cyrilla Muxlow
Proprietor
Siddy Langley is one of
Britain’s leading glass artists. Working with molten glass gathered from
the furnace and using precious metals such a gold, silver and tin,
she applies the decoration before the glass is blown. The design then
grows with the piece to form the delicate and intricate patterns that
characterise Siddy’s work.
She fashions each individual piece by hand using a freeblowing technique that ensures that each signed and dated piece is unique.
Siddy's
glasswork is translucent, and the colours have a rich three-dimensional
quality. They convey her deeply held beliefs about
the richness and value of our environment and its fragility and
vulnerability. Siddy is a keen diver and the glass conveys her wonder and
fascination at the richness of life on the sea bed. She has never lost that
fascination that children have when they first pick up a marble and hold it
to the light - that tiny world inside the glass, constantly changing as the
light catches the patterns within the glass. Siddy has recently developed
the
technique of 'drawing' into the glass before it is blown, so that the glass
can be used as a unique medium for
expression, ideal for representing her love of the natural
world
“the making of glass combines all the elements - earth, wind, fire and water and as such seems a wholly natural process. I sometimes feel that I am no more than a catalyst bringing all these elements together for their own mysterious purpose.” SL
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