Emma Baker endeavours to use glass as a canvas to celebrate memories and her pieces aim to communicate the emotions that Baker feels as she designs and makes them. These sentiments carry stories in the work, and Baker hopes that her collections have a narrative as well as aesthetic quality.

The UK-based glass artist has worked in studios across Europe and exhibited in several countries. She has been developing her style for nearly a decade and specialises in hot glass.

Baker’s pieces are made of fragments and shards, rebuilt into what they might suggest they once were. In this rebuilding, Baker references a possible past life, as well as the future purpose in the piece. She intends for her work to have a mysteriousness to it, and ambiguity that leaves the viewer curious.

 Inspired by the harsh landscape of the Caithness coastline in northern Scotland, the series Carragh captures the character of rugged rocks and stones. Colour is trapped in between layers of glass.

Bethany Wood’s sculptural pieces capture movement in rippling, coloured glass. Also based in the UK and specialising in glassware, Wood has been making sculptural glass pieces for the last six years and teaches beginners in her craft.

Her pieces are molten landscapes that seem frozen in a moment of time. They have a performative quality to them that captures a sense of rhythm and feeling of adrenaline rush. 

Her overarching collection, titled Molten Landscapes, takes inspiration from the pace of the inner city and the majesty of natural landscapes. These seemly opposing influences create a sense of tension, elements from both the natural and manmade clash in the work as coloured glass forms an abstract landscape of its own.

“I rekindled my absolute love for photography and captured images of the coastline,” she explains.
“I breathed in the fresh, clean air. I have extracted the colours and compositions from my photography and have executed them within my new series of Molten Landscapes, titled ‘Rock extract’.”

The mineral and metallic colours in the pieces is also intended to create a sense of peace and calm in the viewer.