White Kintsugi Vessel #1022

£6,400.00

Materials: Reactive French Vanilla/Dense White and Opaline Striker glasses

Dimensions: 34cm x 23cm

 

My current work is inspired by volcanic eruptions that took place in the Arctic Circle four thousand years ago, and resulted in the creation of tephra. From the Greek word meaning ash, tephra are micro-shards of glass that exploded into the atmosphere, eventually falling to earth and coming to rest on peatlands across Ireland, incorporated into the growing bog where they lay for millennia awaiting discovery. My work aims to mirror these atmospheric events.

Through the practice of kiln-forming, deep slumping, diamond engraving and finally fire-polishing, I echo the reactive material effects of heat, gravity and elemental erosion. These delicate, textured vessels evolve over a period of up to thirty days, each one revealing the unique alchemy at work in its creation, representing the direct relationship between Landscape and Man.

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Artist Bio

Karl Harron, born in Belfast 1953 is a respected and successful master glassmaker now based in Northern Ireland.

With an emphasis on design-led, innovative work, his distinctive style is characterised by the subtle tones and complex mark making created by exploiting a third element within the body of his pieces, created at the interface between reactive glasses. Although emerging out of the same specific process, no two pieces are ever identical, each being created a new allowing for an organic growth of form.

Through engaging with the material in both its fluid and solid states he reveals delicate imagery not usually associated with glass and his aesthetic vision demonstrates a profound appreciation of processes and critical enquiry.

Harron is a contemporary maker who has established professional glass studios, authored accredited glass courses and continues to facilitate international master classes as part of his professional practice.

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