Glass artist Verity Pulford creates sculptural glass art that takes a magical realist look at the natural world. Combining a variety of processes - cast glass, pate de verre, kilnforming, painting, and etching with natural materials, she creates vessels, sculpture, installation, architectural and public art.
The landscape around her studio in rural North Wales is her main source of inspiration. Natural structures such as algae, lichen, moss, grasses, ferns, and fungi demonstrate the complexity of life: within each organism are other organisms, each living its own unique existence. Layer upon layer of complexity exists within a universal oneness, the feeling that we are all the same thing- a system, in communion, a beautiful symphony. Her work uses the medium of glass to communicate this expansive, blissful space that we access through nature.
Other inspirations are light, the magical atmosphere it can create in the landscape but also the way it interacts with glass- shadows, reflections, the qualities of matt and shiny surfaces. She is also interested and influenced by the cataloguing of nature- natural history artifacts, early cyanotypes, x-rays, microscopic images and botanical drawings.
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