Journal

Light and colour, two of my favourite things, as is the overlay of textures, transparency and mark making on glass.

Septembers full moon was a wonder to watch from Scarborough's shores. It's been a beautiful week in Rosedale, we have been blessed with good weather, clear skies and warm daytime temperatures.

Perfect for furnace building

Brick by brick our third furnace is growing..... ready for glassmaking over Autumn and Winter months.

We are delighted to have had one of our Landscape Bowls selected to show at the 10th British Glass Biennale.

The piece is a Swedish Overlay in gold and Heliotrope, wheel cut, sandblasted and engraved with a collection of marks gathered from observations of the Rosedale landscape. For millenia, people have shaped this dale, working the landscape to survive and thrive, leaving behind marks of their toil.

One hundred and twenty-one artists were selected out of 326 applicants to present the most interesting, diverse and outstanding glass art made in the UK in the last two years.

The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday from 26 August to 28 September at the Glasshouse, Stourbridge; the heart of the historic glass industry in the UK.

The show is an eclectic mix of techniques and works and well worth a visit, with more works on view than ever before.

The next event, in 2026, moves lock stock and barrel to the World of Glass St Helens. We look forward to the next incarnation of the event now in the hands of the American Glass Art Society.

The Americans have a vast experience in staging events for glass, we visited the annual GAS conference in Berlin this year and loved every minute of it, so we look forward to seeing how the Biennale and the IFG develops in 2026.

This is a beauty, all my Roses are having a wonderful year, as are all the plants.

Anyone know what this Rose is called ?

I trimmed an overhanging bough from a lime tree recently.

Seemed a shame to waste it, and also cut some beautiful broken roses were are being battered by the July wind and rain.

I brought them both inside to enjoy their beauty a while longer.

Our white vase is perfect for a single bloom or a small posey of summers flowers.

Roses are my favourite, but really, anything goes.

I'll be posting some images on instagram over the next week.

give us a follow there @gilliesjonesglass

The studio is cool and quiet. ⁠The furnace is off at the moment.
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It's a strange mix of emotions... a relief as the summer has just arrived.

The prolonged chill has been a great time for glassmakers.

It's always always disconcerting when the cycling heart beat of the studio goes quiet.⁠
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It's time for a rebuild, a new box of bricks, this one lasted us 16 years so she did well.

Time to renew.⁠
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Hope to be back up and running in September, just as the Autumn returns.⁠
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If you come to the studio over the next few weeks, although we are not blowing glass there will always be a warm welcome.⁠
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