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Title: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 10, 2010, 10:43:47 AM

As Mike Hunter is currently in folk's minds at the moment, follwing the conference, I thought I'd show you all my latest piece by him.

Here it is.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu4.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu5.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu3.jpg


and some details:-
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu10.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu7.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu9.jpg
and peering inside, from the top.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/wave/SGS/MHu11.jpg

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: Frank on October 10, 2010, 01:12:50 PM

Yummy

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: twists on October 10, 2010, 03:10:45 PM

 :rah:


   This new  design is named Rio,  the glass represents a canvas and is inspired by abstract  painting's .

  Sue Hunter

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 10, 2010, 03:28:11 PM

And here is the lovely Sue herself, showing us another stunning vase by Mike, at the Conference!

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 10, 2010, 08:03:55 PM

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to handle it, otherwise I might have run off with it. (They'd never have found me in the maze of corridors; half the time I couldn't find me!)

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: Carolyn Preston on October 10, 2010, 11:09:58 PM

Ohhhhh, pretty!!!!!!!  :thup:

P.S. Sue, made my first attempt at tablet this afternoon. Had a little dolly domestic fit.

Carolyn

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 11, 2010, 10:52:13 AM

And there's more....

I was allowed to take photographs at the Scottish Glass Society Exhibition when it was held in the Strathearn Gallery in Crieff. (fabulous gallery - very supportive of Glass Art and Art Glass. It's family run - and Edith Maguire, the lovely lady in charge, is a former pupil of Helen Munro Turner's).

Here are Mike's stunning bits from the exhibition.

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 11, 2010, 10:55:36 AM

not finished yet...

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: Max on October 11, 2010, 12:37:01 PM

Oooh!  I'll have one of those goblets please! :hi:    :thup:

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: twists on October 11, 2010, 12:51:11 PM

  Mike   has just come back  from the USA, after doing a Master glass with Pino
  Signoretto,  the week before Pino arrived he spent  time learning how to do  Venetian goblets with Michael Schunke.  But the pictures you have seen  here are early  work  from  5 years ago I would expect.
So I can not wait to see  how his next goblets will  turn out. 
 Sue

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 11, 2010, 03:44:46 PM

I think they're ~ 2005 myself.
I always wonder where the time has gone since I was at that exhibition - or any of them - they're always so fresh in my head! Glass I remember - dates, faces, names, conversations... all vanish, but glass sticks!
That goblet has a lizard wound around it's knop, it's wonderful.

And you should have seen the tartan tumbler he had with him,  :thud: recently made, at the conference!
(somebody else had nabbed it before I knew of it's existance!)

I loved Mike's tools - a bone handled table-knife, and a steel chopping-board knife.
...I use those sorts of tools in the garden, while my OH tends to use old ice-picks... (he's a rock-climber).
And I loved his statement about there being no "right" ways to do things in working glass - if it works for you, it's the right way for you!

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: flying free on October 11, 2010, 05:49:40 PM

stunning - I love the footed bowl shape vase with all the colours - absolutely fab  :hiclp:
thanks for showing those.
m

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: twists on October 12, 2010, 07:54:55 AM

If it is one I think you like ,
I agree  it is a nice piece , in  fact  it is part of my own collection.
We do keep  one or two piece  so we can log Mikes progress and change of styles over the  years,
One day  may be an exhibition  which will track  his career.
 Sue

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 12, 2010, 09:34:39 AM

That's a really, really good idea, Sue!   :thup:
(and an excuse for you to keep all the best bits for yourself   :sm:  )

Studio Art Glass is a fairly recent movement in art, tracking its history isn't actually that easy - notes weren't taken at the time - it was all exciting and experimental and moving forward, folk were too busy doing it to even think about it being part of art history.

It is part of art history and it is important.

Title: Re: Latest vase design from Mike Hunter
Post by: Frank on October 22, 2010, 11:59:05 PM

We now have videos of Mike Hunter at work in the demo, thanks to Christine link (http://www.scotlandsglass.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172:2010-twists-demonstrations&catid=21:scottish-glass-makers-t-z&Itemid=15) scroll down for 4 videos.