Ruth Shelley
Aileni Small Short (RS45)
Glass
The Strathearn Gallery
The Strathearn Gallery
Award winning artist Ruth Shelley specialises in contemporary glass design. She initially studied Textiles, before her love of colour took her to experiment with glass and its there that she has found her true passion as soon as she touched glass she fell in love with it.
With a hugely impressive CV, Ruth won the Glass Sellers Award at the British Glass Biennale in 2015 and has studied Masterclasses with some of the worlds top glassmakers, Sylvia Levenson, Steve Klein and Nathan Sandberg in the UK and USA.
Ruth currently works from her studio in Cardiff where she produces a variety of kiln formed objects from Warm Glass. Her pieces are characteristically bright, using an array of vivid tones.
Ruths inspirations come from her love of travel and the natural world and she constantly observes and documents the colours and combinations of colours she sees on her trips, to produce a body of works back at her studio. She will often visit a location over and over again to... [more]
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