Topic: Dish, not paperweight - J MacDonald / Ian MacDonald

[Leni]

I've just received this little dish - sold as a paperweight - which is signed on the base 'J MacDonald 2003' (or that's what it looks like to me!)

It's an interesting effect, with swirls of orange and purple in clear glass, pressed into a ribbed mould. 

Can anyone tell me anything about 'J MacDonald'?  I've 'Googled', but didn't find anyone I thought likely to be her / him. 

[Frank]

Try asking the SGS as it is a Scottish roots name.

[Leni]

Just had a reply from SGS.  It's not somebody they know 

Anyone?  :huh:

[lambden]

Hi
I think you will find it is Jane Mcdonald, I have heard of her but can't think of when or why, try again on google searching for jane mcdonald glass.
Good luck

[Leni]

Ooops!    I think I may have boobed    I think perhaps it's not a J - it's an I    It could very well be Ian MacDonald    http://www.imacglass.co.uk/

IGMC 

[aa]

Hi
I think you will find it is Jane Mcdonald, I have heard of her but can't think of when or why, try again on google searching for jane mcdonald glass.
Good luck

Jane McDonald was a contemporary of Liz Lowe at the Royal College of Art and received her MA in 1981, I think. She then taught at Swansea College of Art during the  eighties and maybe longer - lost touch since then.

If it is a J, then it could be the same person, but I haven't seen any of her recent work so I wouldn't be able to identify it.

[Leni]

Thanks, Adam.  I do however now think it's probably an 'I'  :spls:  And it's definitely 'Mac' not 'Mc' Donald!     

Ian MacDonald's website refers to "tactile outer surface decoration", and the interesting effect of the ribbed mould into which this little dish was blown is one of the things about it which fascinates me.