by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jan 11, 2022 | blog
New Year 2022 – Year Of Glass It’s a new year which means it’s a New Year and expectations are for me slightly scary. Forget New Year resolutions and promises to be a better person which I always break! This year 2022 has been deemed the International Year of Glass....
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Dec 20, 2021 | blog
British Society of Scientific Glassblowers – Editorial for January 22 issue of Journal I can’t believe I have just written “January 22”! It seems like days ago it was last week and beyond. Another year gone and I have just written my first editorial for the year 2022....
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Nov 22, 2021 | blog
WHO AM I? I ask because I remember arriving to live in Caithness by virtue of my successful application to manage the Dounreay glassblowing Department. That was in 1981 and I was greeted as a kind of saviour, like the calvary bounding over the hills to save those poor...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Nov 5, 2021 | blog
BOOK BARGAIN I have visited hundreds of charity shops and am always attracted to collections of books. I judge how good a shop is by the range of subjects covered on the bookshelves. There is a shop in Inverness has one of the best collections of art books and even...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Oct 9, 2021 | blog
With Petr StanickyWith Jeffrey SarmientoMatt DurranWith Michael Endo PASSAGE AT THE BYRE I have visited many art exhibitions over the year, mostly devoted to glass and never have bothered to think about the respective venues at all. However, my perception that art...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Sep 24, 2021 | blog
GLASSBLOWERS IN A MUSEUM, GLASS SHIPS IN BOTTLES! To be able to conduct a glassblowing demonstration on my birthday was indeed a joy to behold. Obviously not really to hold if the joy was as hot as the glass I was working in the flame! I wasn’t in my normal space as...
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