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jane charles

Jane was born in Edinburgh in 1961 and took a Foundation Art course at Jacob Kramer College of Art, Leeds in 1979 before joining a BA (Hons) course in Multi-disciplinary Art & Design, specialising in glass, at North Staffordshire Polytechnic.  While there, she was the first student representative on the British Artists in Glass Committee.  

After graduation, Jane worked with several glass companies including Stuart Crystal; Lindeanmill Glass, Selkirk; Makintosh Glass, Falkirk; Edinburgh Glassworks and Anthony Stern Glass, London.  In 1987 she established Jane Charles Studio Glass in Edinburgh and three years later transferred the business to Newcastle upon Tyne.  She has created a lively, bright and efficient environment to work in with the emphasis on colour and light.  Bright yellow, greens, blues and purples cover the studio walls and there is a unique interaction between the colours of the workshop and the industrial landscape and skies of Newcastle.

Jane has shown her work in many solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK and the Continent.  She has carried out more than twenty major commissions including a piece for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales;  International Science Festival Awards;  Presentation piece to mark town twinning between Gateshead and Komatsu City, Japan;  Association of Business Sponsorship of the Arts, Scottish Awards;  Pieces for IBM Head POffice, Glasgow;  KPMG innovation Awards;  and the Sports Council/Christine Smith Awards. 

Jane's interest lies in texture, light and form and feels that glass is the ideal medium to express her ideas.  Each unique piece is free blown in 24% lead glass and, once cooled, is hand finished in the cold shop.  They are cut, ground, sandblasted, polished and engraved, each process adding another texture and dimension.  Inspiration comes from working with molten glass together with shapes, colours and moods in the natural world. 

Her most recent commission was for the Darlington Civic Theatre’s Centenary, beside Ged Masterson who was its project manager. The work, Cornucopian Vision, was inspired by the magic, spirit and enjoyment of the theatre, and draws the onlooker’s eyes by its richness of form, colour, texture and light. The forms consist of cages filled with hand-blown ruby and clear glass balls, with formed and beaten copper horns. They are seen in the natural daylight that lights the staircase, or with LEDS slowly changing colour from within.

 

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