ABOUT

Focussing on community through glass workshops & outreach classes.

Four people designing and cut their first glass pieces/

Working within the community I see myself as a facilitator.

I listen to the client’s needs and try to meet them in the best way I can through a collaborative process.

My studio is situated in 36 Lime Street studios in the heart of the Ouseburn cultural quarter. I have a well-equipped professional glass studio from where I can offer a range of glass making classes on an out-reach basis as well as in house.

My own creative practice.

I grew up on a farm in Yorkshire and my own work is inspired by nature. I have a particular fascination with boundaries and fences - things that enclose spaces and provide safety for people and animals.

A large part of my practice is supporting and nurturing creativity in others and I enjoy providing a supportive environment where you can develop your own language in glass.

Find out more about A Passion for Glass sessions and my studio Workshops.

I am currently working on a personal collaboration of seedlings.

Here I have digitally created layered images of flowers, gardens, transferred them into ceramic decals, then fired onto float glass. Creative surprises are introduced when the water-jet cuts through the patterns and images I’ve created, ensuring each ‘seedling’ is a one off, never to be repeated. 

The 'seedlings' are designed either to be planted or hung from the wall and can be purchased through my shop.

 Watch glass ‘seedlings’ from my collection, being cut by the water jet process as seen in the gallery below.

Packing a kiln with plate glass that has been fired on one side with black enamel and then cut. Creating a pattern to fuse together
Water jet cutter at Sunderland university slowly cutting large seedlings out of thick plate glass with white enaeml fired onto the top surface.
Taking out a circular metal cog with a metal leaf inside. The metal is 8mm thick and took 2 hours to be water jet cut out.
A lovely selection of various sizes of glass seedlings stored in my plan chest.
Glass seedlings with fired images of poppies and maps on them.
A detail of the poppies, after they have bene water jet cut.
Playing with a glass seedling and a sandblasted sheet of glass.
Cowslips and other plants rolled into a slab of clay.
my table with plants in pots from which flowers and leaves have been selected and rolled into a clay slab.
a silastic slab showing an impression of real hellebores, with wires stuck in the block, ready of the mould making process.
Two slabs of coloured glass, fresh out of the kiln, ready for de-moulding.
Removing a single slab of blue fired glass with foxgloves impressions in it. To the right are two iamges illustrating the mould making processes.
The blue/lilac cast slab framed and ready to be installed.
A detail of the cast slab with cowslips on it. The glass is green.
A picture of a clay model of the Angel of the North, ready to be cast into a trophy.
The completed cast block of the Angel of the North, ready for presentation.

What they say …

  • “I love coming to Sue’s studio as she offers a safe and friendly environment for anyone of any ability to come and have a good time creating their vision in glass. She has a brilliant teaching style, offering full support yet allowing you to do your own thing once you feel confident enough.”

    ⎯ JIM

  • “What I enjoy about the workshop? I like the friendly atmosphere and the excellent range of glass equipment and tools. And there’s always support if you need it!”

    ⎯ SUSAN

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