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I’m beginning to find my way around. I’ve added flickr so I can show you what I do all day, now i need to turn up the temperature on my kiln

The magic of warm glass

Today I’m working on a glass dish, warm glass is really magical to work with, especially if you are using art glass and dichroic glass. I also work with recycled glass and turn old glass into dishes and coasters.

This is art glass, it’s iridescent

The glass has been fused, now it’s in the kiln to slump and form a dish

I won’t be able to open the kiln until it has cooled completely, so come back tomorrow to see the finished dish. Sometimes i get up really early to see what’s happened in the kiln, it’s like Christmas morning!!

The first thing i did when i got up this morning was open the kiln, you never know what might have happened, the piece could break or it could go into melt down and form a blob of glass if you over fire it.

So here is the finished dish waiting to find a home from someone who loves hand crafted art glass

Come back soon and I’ll tell you what I do with glass bottles

Hello world!

Hello and welcome to my very first blog entry. My name is Jill Egan, I am an artist/artisan working in watercolours and kiln fired art such as dichroic jewellery and recycled glass items.

This a watercolour commission I was working on yesterday, it’s for an 80th birthday present, I hope he likes it.

It’s sometimes difficult doing commission work as it’s not always a subject I would choose to paint, fortunately I liked this one the challenge was working from a small photograph.

I’ll be posting a variety of pieces that I’m working on so please come back soon