About Claire Hall
Claire's passion for glass began during her years travelling across the United States when she met a small community of glass artists in the mountains of West Virginia and started to learn the basics of glass fusing and torch work.
Originally trained as a sculptor (BA Hons Fine Art) at Bristol Polytechnic working in wood and steel, the material of hot glass easily translated into her work. It was at this time Claire also started designing and creating glass jewellery, making glass beads over a hot torch and fused glass jewellery in a kiln.
She moved back to the UK in 1999 and now works from her studio in Brockley, near Bristol in the South West of England. She has won several awards for her glass jewellery and exhibits her glass sculptures and installations across the UK and internationally. Selected twice for the prestigious British glass Biennale her work was purchased by the Imagine Museum in Florida for their permanent collection. Last year her installation 'The Quiet Place' was selected by the Glass Art Society, US for their annual members exhibition in Detroit.
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She was recently commissioned to create a large wall of glass postcards for a window front on Weston-super-Mare High Street, part of the Weston Super Windows Project to regenerate the High St, which was gifted to and now permanently resides at the Hospice in Weston.
Currently her work is on show at the Atkinson Gallery - The Sustainable Open in Street, Somerset and at the CGS Exhibition in the Black Swan Arts Gallery in Frome.
Originally trained as a sculptor (BA Hons Fine Art) at Bristol Polytechnic working in wood and steel, the material of hot glass easily translated into her work. It was at this time Claire also started designing and creating glass jewellery, making glass beads over a hot torch and fused glass jewellery in a kiln.
She moved back to the UK in 1999 and now works from her studio in Brockley, near Bristol in the South West of England. She has won several awards for her glass jewellery and exhibits her glass sculptures and installations across the UK and internationally. Selected twice for the prestigious British glass Biennale her work was purchased by the Imagine Museum in Florida for their permanent collection. Last year her installation 'The Quiet Place' was selected by the Glass Art Society, US for their annual members exhibition in Detroit.
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She was recently commissioned to create a large wall of glass postcards for a window front on Weston-super-Mare High Street, part of the Weston Super Windows Project to regenerate the High St, which was gifted to and now permanently resides at the Hospice in Weston.
Currently her work is on show at the Atkinson Gallery - The Sustainable Open in Street, Somerset and at the CGS Exhibition in the Black Swan Arts Gallery in Frome.
Inspiration |
Claire's work is often inspired by the colours, textures and patterns found within the natural landscape. On an another level it explores the themes and concepts which question the human response to our environment and how we live within our world. She continues to explore mental health issues, mindfulness and meditation recording personal journeys and memories through the medium of glass. |
Education |
Claire has a Foundation Studies Certificate in Art, an Honours Degree in Fine Art and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. Since moving into glass she has also furthered her own artistic development through a series of Masterclasses and workshops, tutors include Anne Petters, Sylvia Levenson, Nathan Sandberg and Alicia Lomne. She has been fortunate to work along side Bob Leatherbarrow, Amanda Simmons, Richard Parrish, Saman Kalantari and Tanya Veit, as a technical assistant during the Masterclasses at Warm Glass UK.
Claire is a member of The Contemporary Glass Society, GAS, The Somerset Guild and Co Chair of North Somerset Arts. |