GILLIES JONESglassmakers

Studio Production 2016Beautiful Bowls

Front cover Opaque Bowls H11cm ø15cm

Blown, engraved glassbyglassmaker Stephen Gillies artist Kate Jones

Studio ProductionThe Beautiful BowlLimited EditionAn annual series of four engraved bowl. 100 of each design is made to reflect the seasonally changing wild flowers of Rosedale. 75 bowls H11cm ø15cm 25 Bowls H15cm ø18cm

Opaque BowlsOur signature bowl. A clean minimal design available in pure colours. Place the bowls near a window and see the opaque colour come to life.

Long Leaves BowlsThese engraved bowls are inspired by nature’s elemental beauty: the repetition of a single leaf gives this bowl a strong vivid design.

Partners in life and art, Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones have been making exceptional contemporary blown glass together for over 20 years.

Their pieces are made as glass was prior to industrial revolution, for the love of process and material.

Operating from their studio and workshop in the village of Rosedale Abbey, they have developed a unique aesthetic, drawing inspiration from the elemental beauty of their rural surroundings.

They have received worldwide recognition for their complex cameo works, their defiantly decorative work can be found in both public and private collections including the V&A.

 

Stephen Gillies started his technical skills training at Stourbridge College of Art, in the historic centre of British glass- making, and then at Wolverhampton University. He worked abroad in the hotshop at the Glass Museum in Ebeltoft in Denmark and with the glass team of Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg in Switzerland. Now, Stephen Gillies talks about transparency and the unique qualities of the material and his driving force – the making of each piece to the best of his considerable ability. 

Kate Jones trained in painting and, she spent a useful year learning to adapt her visual skill to the design and decoration of glass at the International Glass Centre, in Brierley Hill, Dudley. By then she was fully converted to glass and the opportunitiesit offered for self expression. She has brought a clearly defined sense of design to the partnership. 

Opaque BowlsH11cm ø15cm

Opaque Red

Opaque Orange

Opaque Celadon

Opaque French Grey

Long leaf BowlsH11cm ø15cm

Long Leaf Cranberry Pink

Long Leaf Spring Green

Long Leaf Steel Green

Long Leaf Steel Blue

Long Leaf Cobalt Blue

Long Leaf Ice Blue

Long Leaf Lilac

Long Leaf Charcoal Grey

Long Leaf Grass Green

Long Leaf Black

Summer Leaves – Cobalt BlueThis Bowl can be made to order in any of the colours shown in this catalogue.

Summer leaves – Cobalt Blue

Limited EditionsAn annual series of four engraved bowl. 100 of each design, made to reflect the seasonally changing flowers of Rosedale. 75 bowls H11cm ø15cm 25 Bowls H15cm ø18cm

Plum Blossom 2015 - small & large bowls available

Daisy 2015 - small & large bowls available

Daffodil 2016 – large bowls available

Rosehip 2015 – large bowls available

Bluebell 2015 – Sold Out

Snowdrop 2015 – Sold Out

Peony 2014 – Sold Out

Harebell 2014 – large bowls available

Public Collections

V&A (Commission)

National Museum Scotland ( Dan Klein & Alan J Poole)

Farringdon Collection Trust Oxfordshire

Museum of Modern Glass Rodental Germany

Ebeltoft Glass Museum Denmark

Bolton Museum & Art Gallery

Kanazawa – Japan

Broadfield House Glass Museum

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Northlands Creative Glass Scotland

Cannon Hall Museum South Yorkshire

Cartwright Hall West Yorkshire

Special Collections Manchester Metropolitan Uniinversity

 

Publications

Inspired Landscape North York Moors National Park 2012

Modern & Contemporary Glass Bonhams 2009

Bounded Space Blown Glass Vessels Gillies Jones 2009

Contemporary International Glass Jennifer Hawkins Opie 2004 pg 50

Coburg Glass Prize 2006 Pg 124 21st Century British Glass

Danlei Katz Ltd / Dan Klein Associates Cover

New Glass Review 2006

Reflections: A Decade of Northlands Creative Glass Pg 27

British Glass Biennale 2004

British Glass Biennale 2006

British Glass Biennale 2008

British Glass Biennale 2012

British Glass Biennale 2015 

Stephen Gillies & Kate Jones, is a close-knit team of two, interlocked technically and artistically, and dependent on just one other skilled craftsman. Their long experience has brought their glass to a pitch of artistic and technical control, in which they have a very clear idea of how they want the finished glass to look and the confidence in their skills to achieve it. This experience took years to form. Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones became partners in 1994. They have worked with the often-disregarded vessel form from relatively early in their joint career .

Increasingly wide variations in colour and in complex intertwining of linear patterning have absorbed their thoughts and talents, leading to the unique artworks which have found their way into public and private collections. But, easily approachable though these works are, there is more going on beneath the surface than might be suspected.  Gillies-Jones say their vessels are ‘physical and metaphorical containers for our thoughts, our interests, and … a way to reveal the possibilities of our shared world’.  Like many artists, Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones are concerned about the dangers of imbalance between nature and humankind and seek to address that concern in their work.  Merging concept with a visually pleasing result is a difficult challenge and one which Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones set themselves willingly.

Beyond any philosophical reasoning, the purely visceral pleasure of glass is its transparency, its reflective qualities, the richness of colour and the interplay of light within its depths. Gillies-Jones’ glass has this in abundance.  Jennifer Hawkins OpieJuly 2009   

Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, North Yorks. YO18 8SA+44 1751 417550studio@gilliesjonesglass.co.ukgilliesjonesglass.co.uk