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Ruth Shelley

  • Glass fuser
  • Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Ruth Shelley Glass fuser
Contact
English, Welsh
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+44 7855696628
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A colourful life from textiles to glass

  • • Ruth’s passion is colour and pattern in glass
  • • She has won several awards in the UK
  • • Ruth studied textiles prior to working in glass

Ruth Shelley is an award-winning glass artist whose main interest is colour and how it is affected by shape, form, and pattern. Her background is in textiles, but she has been working with kiln formed glass since the early 2000s. Ruth attended many masterclasses including North Lands Creative Glass, UK and Bullseye Resource Centre, USA which enabled her to develop her skills. Ruth won the Glass Sellers Award at the British Glass Biennale 2015 and also exhibited at the British Glass Biennale in 2017. She has received many awards from the Arts Council for Wales. Her work can be seen in many UK galleries including London Glassblowing.

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Works

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Photo: ©Ruth Shelley
Paradigm Shift

This vessel represents a rug from Jaipur, India in blues, reds, green and white. Ruth Shelley cut, delicately placed and fused combination of transparent and opaque glass to create the piece. Shaped by gravity, it was then cut, polished and sandblasted.

Photo: ©Ruth Shelley
Rosebay Willowherb collection

This is a collection of vessels in various sizes and shades of pinks and green, inspired by the flowering cycle of the Rosebay Willowherb plant which grows widely across the UK and Europe. The vessels are shaped by gravity, then cut, polished and sandblasted.

Photo: ©Ruth Shelley
Coloured Rhythm

Inspired by the Summer Solstice, this abstract multi-coloured disc was designed, cut, fused and sandblasted, using layers of opaque and transparent glass. It is mounted on a free-standing black metal stand.

Photo: ©Ruth Shelley
Metamorphosis

Using a combination of transparent and opaque glass, Ruth Shelley cut, delicately placed, and fused glass segments to represent a rug from Baluchistan in blues, greens, browns and white. The oval vessel was shaped by gravity, cut, polished and sandblasted.

Photo: ©Ruth Shelley
Into The Deep

Many layers of glass were used to make this tall glass vessel which represents the varying colours of the sea around the Welsh coastline. It has a rippled wave-like texture on the surface and a delicate tapestry of colours at its centre.

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