Molten Miniature - Russet
Molten Miniature - Russet
by Bethany Wood£420.00
Taking inspiration from the world around us, Bethany’s work combines elements of the inner city and expansive landscapes, exploring themes like urban culture, graffiti and travel. Her glass-making practice is influenced by her passions for painting and performance, treating the glass as a canvas on which molten colours recreate the fleeting nature of brush strokes.
The beauty in these Molten Miniatures is that they are as stunning and tactile on the front as they are on the back or on the back as the front – They’re interchangeable and completely unique sculptural vessels.
Metal and mineral extracts play a particularly important part in creating glass colour. My collection’s metallic colours represent the metals that can be extracted from rock. Conceptually the healing properties of stones/rocks can also bring a sense of peace & calmness, which is a large part of my mindset when developing this collection.
Multi-disciplinary artist Bethany Wood is the founder and director of Blowfish Glass. After graduating from De Montfort in 2014 with a Design Crafts degree, specialising in hot glass, Bethany spent several years developing and refining her skills with a number of renowned glass artists across the UK. She launched her Molten Landscapes series in 2020 and has exhibited with many high-end galleries and interior designers internationally, including being commissioned to design a collection for Wonder of the Seas; the flagship of Royal Caribbean.
Taking inspiration from the world around us, Bethany’s work combines elements of the inner city and expansive landscapes, exploring themes like urban culture, graffiti and travel. Her glass-making practice is influenced by her passions for painting and performance, treating the glass as a canvas on which molten colours recreate the fleeting nature of brush strokes. This hybrid approach forms
spontaneous watery and lava-like relief flourishes, relishing in the serendipity of abstraction.
“I like to express myself through the fluidity of the material,” Bethany explains. “The directional arrangement of a colour palette can form the depth of an abstract landscape. I use my own paintings as a reference whilst making in the hot shop. A specific place has inspired each individual artwork from my series.”
We are members of the Own Art Scheme, enabling you to purchase the Art Works monthly with 0% interest, receiving your new sculpture straight away. If you’d like to take advantage of this offer, please email bethany@blowfishglassart.com
About the artist
Bethany Wood
Bethany Wood, founder and director of Blowfish Glass, a leading, artist-led, hybrid gallery and hotshop.
A design graduate from De Montfort University, Leicester, specialising in glass making.
Bethany has focussed the previous 6 years developing skills working for renowned glass makers across the country. Bethany launched her own collection of work 2 years ago and exhibits with high end galleries and interior designers internationally as well being an artist representative for many other prominent artists.
“If I was not an artist, I would have been a performer. I chose glass, which I do believe is a performance of art; both disciplines create the same energy. There is rhythm and adrenaline in glass making, within a routine that is planned very carefully.”
