Issue 29
Hart Glass Situated in rural Suffolk, The Hart Glass studio creates bespoke, unique and limited edition art and architectural glass works. Run by artist and designer Laura Hart, they specialise in fine sculpture, architectural installations and unique functional glass art using over twenty years of architectural and interior design experience, uniting
twenty first century 3D esign applications with age-old traditional glass making techniques. Laura’s passion for glass art flourished at Creative Glass in Rochester, and the famous Northlands Creative Glass School situated in the Scottish Highlands before extending her skills in 3D modelling to mould design for glass work. Her recent flower collections have received the thumbs up from her peers and the global glass community and she continues to develop her niche in art glass creation. She will be exhibiting at the superb
contemporary arts and crafts exhibition, ‘Art Unequalled’ held at the Bury St. Edmunds Athenaeum on Angel Hill from the 3rd - 5th May And throughout June she participates in the Suffolk Open Studios weekend events, where the public are invited to visit working artists’ studios and purchase original works direct. Her exclusive ‘Picasso’ collection of bowls featured in the April 12th edition of the Financial Times weekend magazine, ‘Superior Interiors’, and her sculptural flower collections are on solo exhibition during the month of May at London’s premier glass gallery, Vessel. Laura also holds one to one glass working classes, preferring to devote individual attention to students who are keen to pursue glass art as a vocation or simply to enjoy the hands on experience of creating their own work of glass art. She offers one day tasters and more advanced three and four day courses in a relaxed studio environment. For more information about the items available or for more info on the artist herself, visit her website http://www. hartglass.com/ for galleries, information on commissions and much more.
Laura donates poppies to charity As part of the Royal British Legion’s 2014 Centenary Commemoration, artist Laura Hart has created a set of three special edition Glass ‘Flanders Field’ poppies, in dedication to her Grandfather who was mentioned twice in dispatches for gallantry in the field. Donated to the Royal British Legion WW1 Centenary Commemoration, the three poppies will be sold at public auction in October/November 2014 to raise funds for the charity. Throughout the 2014 Centenary Laura will donate 10% of all subsequent Flanders poppy sales to the RBL. Displayed at the premier glass gallery in the country, the Vessel Gallery in
London, a collection of Laura’s work in a solo exhibition, the red glass Flanders Field Poppies retail at £995 and are Laura’s way of trying to make a substantial amount of money for the RBL and its charity funds. As a long time supporter of the charity, she wants to raise awareness of the charity and hopefully attract more donations, not just gain more funds for the charity through the sales. The three poppies donated will be auctioned off at locations across the country, in order to maximise awareness and reach the highest possible number of donaters. Laura herself says ‘We should never forget the sacrifice my grandfather’s generation made during the 14-18 war. The scarred battle fields bloomed with red poppies; a poignant reminder of the blood spilled during that dreadful conflict. Long may the symbolic red poppy serve to remind us’.