Journal

We've been enjoying some wonderful snow days in Rosedale, with bright sunshine and welcome blue skies. Fabulous.

A very happy new year from all of us in Rosedale.

Thank you for all your support in 2025.

We are looking forward to making glass in 2026 and to welcoming visitors back to the studio from March 1st. Our website remains open to orders throughout this period.

In the mean time, in the dead of winter, we will be working on new pieces behind closed doors. 

As we approach our last few days with the doors to our studio open to visitors for 2025, we are busy making for last minute orders and posting off pieces.

Our doors close to visitors on December 4pm December 20th and reopen on March 1st 2026.

If you would like us to post some glass to you or to someone you love, our last orders day is 18th December. 

Last post Monday 22nd December for Christmas delivery.

Thank you.

Winter reveals the hedgerows wild architecture: a glorious tangle of branches and thorns where life competes, weaves and grows.

Clusters of hawthorn, sloe and rosehip punctuate the silhouettes of the bare branches offering a feast for the birds.

A handmade, hand engraved bowl of opaque white glass, finished with a pure white lip wrap.

This bowl celebrates the layers, growth and the berry rich splendour of the Winter Hedgerow, and the beauty found in its tangled resilience.

I do enjoy a bit of winter weather, and how it changes everything. It is one of the great joys of 30 years living and working in the North York Moors. Every winter.... the miracle of beautiful white ice, blankets everything.

November 1st and 2nd 2025

11am - 4pm

As part of North Yorkshire Open Studios 2025, winter opening, Kate will be opening the doors to her private studio this coming weekend.

This is a unique opportunity to step behind the scenes and explore the ideas, sketches, and printmaking processes that inform her work with glass.

The main hot glass studio will be open as well 11 - 4 on Sunday, showing our completed works.

If you are in the North York Moors, you’re warmly invited to drop in and see what happens behind closed doors.

There’s also a vibrant cluster of our neighbours creative spaces open on the Moorsedge alongside many other studios across North Yorkshire taking part in WINTER North Yorkshire Open Studios 2025. Follow the links for more details.

Each summer, the North York Moors are transformed as the ling heather comes into bloom, cloaking the landscape in its unmistakable purple glow.

This most widespread of heathers bears countless tiny flowers—so delicate they are barely visible alone, yet together they create the vast, sweeping carpet that defines the moors in August and September.

More than a fleeting display of beauty, heather sustains life on the moor: its flowers feed bees and pollinators, while its woody stems shelter ground-nesting birds such as lapwings, curlews,  golden plover and ring ouzel.

For centuries, people too have turned to it—for thatch, fuel, brewing, medicine—and it has long been cherished as a token of good luck, carried by travellers and brides alike.

Above all, the heather is a symbol of endurance. Through fire, frost, and the fiercest northern weather, it survives, returning each year in a brief but brilliant flowering that colours the moors with their truest essence.

Our handmade limited-edition glass bowl celebrates this miracle of contrasts: the small and the vast, the fragile and the enduring, the fleeting and the timeless.

Just as the ling heather unites thousands of tiny blossoms into a landscape-defining spectacle, so too does each detail of this piece come together in harmony—capturing the spirit of the moors in glass.

Our third Limited edition of 2025 is available to order online from 6pm on September 25th