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Bethany Wood

  • Blowfish Glass Art
  • Glass sculptor
  • Wordsley, United Kingdom
  • Rising Star
Bethany Wood Glass sculptor
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Glass burst of personality

  • • Bethany is a glass artist
  • • She is a founder of the UK-based Blowfish Glass artist collective
  • • She combines glassmaking with painting to create her objects

Self-expression has always fascinated Bethany Wood and she has found her medium in glassmaking. “Glass mimics my existing mental state. The texture and the movements made onto the vessels are a direct expression,” says the artisan. Today Bethany is a bright star of the craft as well as a founder of the Blowfish Glass artist collective that promotes glassmaking in the UK. Her inspiration is drawn from urban and rural landscapes, travel and the abstract. She strives to project the serendipity of abstraction onto glass as a canvas. Bethany works with molten glass to create composition and texture upon a vessel, with particular joy in colour schemes. She has been making glassware since the mid-2010s and her objects can be purchased in galleries.

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Works

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Photo: ©Simon Bruntnell
Crevice

This is a sculptural, expressionistic vessel duo. The smooth, white bullet-shaped vessel suffers a burst of metallic movement and texture that breaks up and contrasts with the beautiful crispness of the form.

Photo: ©Simon Bruntnell
Rock Extract collection – IRON

This is a sculptural, expressionistic vessel. The smooth, transparent grey bullet-shaped vessel sees a tonal blue, petrol blue and an amber burst of metallic movement and texture breaking up and contrasting with the beautiful crispness of the form.

Photo: ©Simon Bruntnell
Molten Miniature

This is a sculptural, expressionistic vessel. The smooth, transparent bullet-shaped vessel has a mustard, opaline and gunmetal metallic burst of movement and texture draping across the crispness of the form.

Photo: ©Simon Bruntnell
Rock Extract collection – ORE

This sculptural, expressionistic vessel has a smooth, transparent grey bullet shape with an array of colours like amber, pale pink, orange, beige, yellow, dark grey, and a burst of metallic movement and texture that breaks up and contrasts with the beautiful crispness of the form.

Photo: ©Simon Bruntnell
Molten Miniature

This sculptural, expressionistic vessel has a smooth, transparent bullet shape with a tonal black, sea green, and petrol blue metallic burst of movement and texture draping across the crispness of the form.

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