Topic: George Elliott Studio vase, 1969 Mdina style

[Greg.]

Hi Andy,

Just a few thoughts of the top of my head. 

Only kidding! - theres a website link below for you, strangely enough I was looking at this website and George Elliot in general the other week. If you have any problems just let me know.

http://www.glass-routes.com/index.html


Some other additional info below for you: G. Elliot 

He set up one of the first glass studios in the country and taught many of the now leading UK artists at Stourbridge College from 1966-1981. He also worked as a designer for Holmegaards Glassveark in Denmark and for Hadelands Glassveark in Norway. George travelled round the UK with a mobile glass furnace demonstrating the art of glass blowing at various workshops and symposia.
Sadly he died in 2000.

I have a number of RCA pieces of glass if you ever want me to email you some pics.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Greg

[chopin-liszt]

I'd be incredibly interested in seeing any RCA or other early Glasshouse pieces!

I have a small collection myself, will get some images together shortly.

[Andy]

Thanks again Greg,
Sue, you must have so much glass Do you live in an enormous castle 
Never get tired of seeing more pretty pictures
Andy

[chopin-liszt]

 
I do know of folk who have much more glass and live in much smaller places.. I have been seriously collecting glass since ~ '98, but owing to shortage of space (and Michael's levels of tolerance) have curtailed my excesses for a good while now. I don't really have holidays of any description, all my clothes are charity shop - glass is my one extravagance.

but it is sort of everywhere.... and I suppose the house is fairly big.

no George Elliot though....yet 

[Andy]

Sue,
ive totally run out of shelf space, which in a way is good , because one can afford to be a bit
more selective. I havent sold any for 6 months, but i plan to have a large selling spree in the
new year. i started looking at shirts in the charity shops this year while looking for glass,
and now i have a designer wardrobe full of good stuff, nothing wrong with that, although i cant help
telling people, so when i go in the pub in a new Hugo Boss shirt , everyone knows where ive been
Cheers
Andy
 :thup:

[chopin-liszt]

When you run out of shelf space, there's still the tops of your kitchen cupboards, the top of the loo cistern, the windowframes, the corners of rooms and the turns in the staircase, the top of the bathroom cabinets, give your unwanted books to the charity shops and use the bookshelves, take the doors off the linen cupboards in the rooms (if you're in an old house) and use them......

And you can be trebly smug about charity shop clothes - saving cash, giving to charity and recycling! (what's "hugo boss" anyway? :spls:  )

[Andy]

Good advice!  :24: (Hugo Boss ,just some designer,no idea where from! forgot to add 'shirt')
 

[chopin-liszt]

 
Just pretending to be ignorant, honest! (In my day "designer" meant quality, not something with an advertising logo on it. If I'm going to advertise something I expect to be paid, not to have to fork out for the very dubious priveledge.)
I've stuck some more pics in the faceted cobalt inside-out thread.