Nikki Williams

Gallery opening hours - Saturday - 11am-5pm, or by prior arrangement.
Art World Gallery.
Blackminster Business Park.
Near Evesham.
WR11 7RE.
01386 834403 + 07913 848515.
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I work with the dynamic qualities of glass, utilizing gravity & centrifugal force to create beautiful yet simple blown and hot sculpted forms. The physical act of working with a material so alive is never boring; you can never ever take for granted that it will behave exactly as you want. With time & many hours / years practice you learn to respect,& sometimes allow the glass to dictate how something should be formed, working in harmony with it going where it wants to go while coaxing & persuading it occasionally to move where you also want it to move. Neither completely liquid or solid hot glass is a material that is as fascinating & alluring to me today as the very first time I encountered it. Recently I have started to enjoy the added effects made possible to the cold glass through cold working & sculpting techniques a much slower process than when working in hot glass. Here I can start a piece and return to it later to consider how I want the piece to develop.

Colour has always played a large role in the majority of my work bringing added joy, vibrancy & impact to the pieces. Inspiration comes far and wide from natural forms to architecture and beyond.
I explore form, line, colour and space to create sculptural pieces that the eye wants to delve into, the hand wants to touch & the mind to marvel at.