Charlotte Douglass has a range of interests – over the years she has painted in watercolours and taken many photographs. Now she has become fascinated by glass. Not stained glass, but forms and shapes moulded in clear glass, so you can feel smooth and rough textures, and watch the play of the light through the glass and its bubbles.

Her main focus is on kiln-formed glass. She is fascinated by the qualities of colour and light, and the silvery glow of the bubbles, and the paradoxically soft feel of the polished glass. All her current work is kiln-formed. Each piece is individual and unique, formed in a plaster and quartz mould in the kiln. Making the necessary moulds is a complex and time-consuming process and firing is followed by intensive work polishing, finishing and presenting the final pieces.

Charlotte has lived in Swerford since Spring 1989.

Photo: Ian Cave