Will Shakspeare
Coast Small Vase (SGL281)
Glass
The Strathearn Gallery
The Strathearn Gallery
Will Shakspeare is one of the countries best known glass blowers. He has been featured regularly in the press and on TV including Kirsties Homemade Home and Kirsties Homemade Christmas with Kirstie Allsopp and in the Saturday Telegraph and most recently the Telegraph Magazine with David Nicholls.
Will set up Shakspeare Glass [just] over 25 years ago and has supplied many galleries and well known stores in that time. He has also worked in Central and South America as a consultant in glass production and design for various NGO's.
Will says of his work I make a wide range of different designs which are constantly evolving. I deliberately design glass with a random factor, an aspect that is beyond my control. I try and use colour so that it affects the final shape of the piece in a natural and fluid way. In doing this I have to work with the glass rather than completely imposing my own constrictions.
And on inspiration 'There is something magical about water, from just wonderi... [more]
The Strathearn Gallery | 32 West High Street | Crieff | Perthshire | PH7 4DL
