Green Glass Vessel by Richard Roberts

Working with hot glass Richard has created a green glass vessel of multiple depths.  Encased in clear glass, a piece abstract of art is on display.  Dark hues of green give way to bright stripes of yellow and daring red.  The shape of the green glass vessel adds to the movement felt through the piece.  While the bubbles look ready to pop!

Green Glass Vessel Artist

Richard Roberts Glass Artist is based in Walsall in the West Midlands.  Upon leaving school he attended a Foundation in Art & Design at High Wycombe Polytechnic.  He then went on to study Fine Art Sculpture at the Norwich School of Art, obtaining a BA Hons.

Inspired by a glass-blowing demonstration at the Red House Cone Glass Museum, Stourbridge, Richard was determined to explore the world of glass.  He attended a two year, 3D glass course at the International Glass Centre at Dudley College.

Richard then went on to complete an MA in Design & Applied Arts (glass) at Wolverhampton University in 2014 and went on to be Artist in Residence there in 2015/16.  Initially, Richard practiced glass blowing.  Over the years he has specialised in creating glass sculptures using kiln casting techniques. Those similar to the metal lost wax process which he has used for many years to produce bronze sculptures.

Richard has returned to glass blowing as his primary practice in glass.  He is attending the ‘Associateship’ course at Dudley College, and a further module at Wolverhampton University. Fused glass work is also of interest to Richard and he enjoys experimenting with that technique.

The unpredictability and chance of glass while it’s a hot malleable medium is what Richard relishes most.  Which ensures each piece is unique and impossible to repeat.  Which he believes is an antidote to the ‘digital’ and factory-made.

“I relish the tension & drama between what control and technical ability I have, and what the glass would prefer to do by its own accord!” Richard Roberts.