Vintage and Reclaimed

One more small update before I'm off, as I got surprised by the offer from the store owner below my apartment. He has a vintage and reclaimed store and asked me if I was interested to put up some prints there. As I am going to Japan now and they would be just standing in my spare room I was quite happy to do so. You can check out the shop at http://www.vintagereclaimed.co.uk/ (nut sure if my works will be added there as well or not).

Busy but pictures

After a very Busy week there came another one.
We had a special team coming in to break down and rebuild the furnace I have been working on with Ingrid (Glass Technician), earlier this semester.The first couple of days I have been helping out and trying to see how they did it as much as I could. for the rest of the week I have been busy with preparing a glass enamel screen printing introduction for the third year and some MFA students. I have to say that it went better than expected so far and I am happy to see there is a lot of interest.
I also gave another talk about my work and this time for the whole department. I was quite nervous about it and forgot to mention a lot of things. Fortunately we had a very long discussion at the end of my talk which gave me another opportunity to explain things.
This Monday I will have another screen printing day to help out the 3rd year students and after that it's of to Japan!

Kiln Rebuild:

the leaked out glass: 

Glass enamel screen printing project with students:

Too busy for pictures

This week (talking about last week), was even busier than the ones before. I am busy with all sorts of things, from trying to set up an enamel screen printing work space in the glass department to picking up my work from several exhibitions that have ended. I have to say that the lecture I gave to the 3rd year students went pretty well (at least that's how I feel about it). The students where very interested even though I didn't have much glass work to show. I am now preparing to give them an introduction to screen printing with glass enamels (powdered glass color) which can then be fired in a kiln to fuse it with the glass plate it's printed on. This is a great thing to try out for me as well as I have done lots of screen prints but none with glass enamels. I'm also going to be present when a company comes in to break down and rebuild the furnace I have been working on at the start of this academic year. It's going to be another busy but very exiting last week before I head of to Japan!