Axons, Ice Blues

From a very young age, Charlie has known of glass as an artistic medium, ever since his parents opened their studio which he grew up in. The studio, E&M Glass, opened in 1987. Even with this familiarity with hot glass, it wasn’t until he went to Sunderland University that he began to experiment and explore its properties. Originally studying Fine Art; it later seemed inevitable that he would transfer to the BA Glass and Ceramics course, from which he graduated from with honours in 2010. He was also awarded the Charles Bray award for Glass Excellence. Since leaving Sunderland, he has worked and several studios around the UK demonstrating and teaching glassblowing to others: finally settling back at home with E&M Glass, around 5 years ago working with Ed, Margaret and his wife Amelia Burke creating their own bodies of glassware.

 

Over the years of me working with hot molten glass, I have found that I have wanted to create work that exaggerates its liquid qualities but in its solid state. I often use colour to assist in this exaggeration of its form to help show the movement of the glass and the following qualities of the glass. I feel in contrast to this, by also cutting and highly polishing the surface it displays the cold qualities of the glass too. My main subject matter follows brain patterns and thought functions. The electricity of thought and the transference of information between pathways in the brain is what inspires me to create movement using molten glass.

 

  Glass  2022

27x9.5x15cm