Christmas Gift

Well it's only five days to Christmas, so I thought I would give my readers a treat.  This is a film made just a few months ago of Ned Cantrell making one of his amazingly complex and beautifully crafted sculptural glass pieces.    He works from his studio in Aarhus that he shares with his glassblowing wife Karen Nyholm (nyholm/cantrell).  I had the pleasure of working there for a month in 2010 and learnt a great deal from both of them.  Ned has a very relaxed attitude to working with molten glass which gave me the confidence to try techniques I would never have approached before.  Karen has an aesthetic in her work that I greatly admire and strive for in my own work; a bold simplicity and a beautiful use of colour.

So here's Ned making a blown glass astronaut, enjoy!!