Mark Angus reappears...

... with a possible idea for a masterclass? What do we think?

Dear Milly,
These days I am spending most of my time glass painting, - I have come a long way in 8 years!! I attatch a sample - the second is a vase, I am painting these in numbers!!
I love it.

Just as I did last Easter, I shall again this coming Easter get a day teaching my glass painting technique at the Bath College. But it would be good for me to step again into QR if you would ever invite me.
In Bath I get 100 pounds which the students from all courses collect together, it is very little each!! Or maybe it was 120 I cannot remember. (We have the EUR here!)

My way now, (Excluding acid which I cannot demonstrate in Bath) is with black enamel, with oils, and transparent enamels , - one firing. Very free, very spontaneous.
I use silver stains a lot too, and I work on every type of glass, including 3D forms.
You can see more on www.markangus.com

So.
What about it!
Are you interested???

Greetings, Mark

Corning and big paperweights

As befitting the United States of Americal, here's The Biggest Paperweight in the Universe. All the trees and foliage were lampworked and then rolled up (technical term) in a great big blob (technical term) of glass by lots of burly blokes... It was a very beautiful thing. “Megaplanet” is a 107-pound orb with a kaleidoscope of landscapes and underwater scenes inside, and is the one thousandth paperweight in the paperweight collection at Corning. I declined to look at the other 999.


From heavy to delicate, and the wonders of lampworking... Thankfully this was in a glass case, away from my back pack.


Silvia Levenson is an Argentinian artist, who lives in Milan. The political instability she experienced plays out in her work.


Fancy an apple? These were rather enormous, very shiny and beautifully edible... for your most hated enemies only.