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Help to id a paperweight please ID = Alum Bay, IOW (pics all gone)

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chopin-liszt:
Thanks Frank! I see from this website that there are THREE glassmaking studios on the IoW, I found Glory Art Glass as well, on the list of IoW approved things. The website is:-
www.iowight.com/art-glass/
and there are some nice things here! Maker is Martin Evans.
I'll have to pluck up the courage to 'phone Alum Bay! Cheers, Sue.

chopin-liszt:
Hello,
I have just telephoned Alum Bay to ask if Chris Lucas ever trained with Isle of Wight Studio Glass, and they said that he did. They also said that Chris Lucas did not set up Alum Bay, but was a glassblower there and has now left and is working as a designer.
I got the connection between Alum Bay and Chris Lucas from the Great-Glass website. There does seen to be a tenuous thread running between IoWSG and Alum Bay, but this is something that seems to happen very much in glassmaking, as skills are passed on from one glassmaker to another, albeit that each maker develops and refines and adds their own personality to it.

I imagine this must happen when two glassmakers, working together on a piece, learn that amazing co-ordination that they need to perform what looks almost like a dance to music only they can hear, joined by the laws of the primaeval forces of chaos of the movements of the melted super-cooling liquid.

 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  Sigh! The romance of it! No wonder I love glass!

I have also posted this information in another thread, with a query about a piece of glass that has an Alum Bay "gut-instinct" about it, that somebody felt had a Mdina "gut-instinct".
Cheers, Sue

Leni:

--- Quote from: "chopin-liszt" ---I imagine this must happen when two glassmakers, working together on a piece, learn that amazing co-ordination that they need to perform what looks almost like a dance to music only they can hear, joined by the laws of the primaeval forces of chaos of the movements of the melted super-cooling liquid.

 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  Sigh! The romance of it! No wonder I love glass!
--- End quote ---


Sue, that's just what Max, Peter and I felt as we stood and watched Adam A & his team on our recent London Glassaholics visit to his studio   :D

We felt very privileged to be allowed to stand (like 'wallflowers'  :wink: ) in the middle of that wonderful dance!   :shock:

Leni

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