Colourful Sculptures ‘Explosion’ by Amanda Charles

Vibrant and fun, these colourful sculptures by Amanda Charles have certainly ‘exploded’ onto the art scene!

Beautifully made, with painstaking precision, these colourful sculptures are another fantastic addition to Amanda’s work.

Inspired by modern and contemporary design these sculptures are reminiscent of fireworks. Just like the real thing, “Explosion’ will attract many ‘oohs and ahhs’ from all its viewers.

An exciting piece of glass art, it comes with a stand to enable you to place it wherever you like.

It has a very tactile look but do keep it out of the reach of the grandchildren!

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Colourful Sculptures Artist

Amanda Charles began her stellar glass journey by training in ceramics and glass at the University of Hertfordshire. She became fascinated by the versatility of glass and the amazing array of ways it was possible to work with glass to create beautiful art.

Her favourite modus operandi is working with kiln-formed glass. This is a ‘warm glass’ technique, where layers of glass are fused together in the kiln. The temperature is precisely controlled using a digital thermometer so that the constant heating and cooling of the glass does not crack or shatter the glass art (thermal shock).

As this method offers such precise heat control, it enables her to stack opalescent, transparent and dichroic glass to create vibrancy, geometry and very tactile 3D texture. It almost invites the viewer to reach out and touch the art.

The modern ‘alchemy’ of the application and control of heat enables Amanda to take uniform sheet glass and canes and conjure up fantastic glass artefacts in a kaleidoscope of colours.

Inspired both by contemporary art movements and the great art movements such as Bauhaus, her abstract art glass creations focus on geometric and powerful colour contrasts. The elaborate detail of her pieces creates both linear and non-linear compositions – a harmonic dissonance if you will.

Layers of glass complement or contrast with each other to create a wonderful divergence between light absorption and reflection in intricate detail and pattern. A style that pays homage to the simplicity of Bauhaus Modernism and the complexity of non-representational Abstract Expressionism (art not based on reality, but more an expression of the artist’s psyche).

Her artistic style and technique are constantly evolving as she continues to experiment with the marvellous medium of glass. If you would like to see more items like this Dichroic Glass Art then click Amanda Charles Artist

Amanda’s work has been featured in the Online European Glass Show 2016 run by the Contemporary Glass Society. And this year her talents have been honoured by being shortlisted for the 2017 British Glass Biennale.