She is very highly thought of.

She won an award at the Scottish Glass Society Exhibition in Crieff in 2004.
(Although this link lists it as being a 10th anniversary thing, it wasn't. I was there, I remember Deborah Fladgate winning the prize. Nobody could ever forget that exhibition, there was a disaster, a shelf came down and the gallery owner Owen, was injured.)
http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2009/the-revivalists/deborah-fladgate/