gillies jones landscape catalogue 2015
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GILLIES JONESglassmakers
Landscape 2015
Front cover Winter View over Rosedale
Blown, engraved glassbyglassmaker Stephen Gillies artist Kate Jones
studies of the North York Moors landscape 2015“Our current work, ‘Landscape’, is informed by the visual experience of the remarkable place in which we live and work. Our bowls observe the evident structure of the landscape within the North York Moors.
The pieces celebrate the beauty of the changing light from vast skies falling upon complex layers of lines, shapes, colour, textures, and explores the layers foundin it's slow construction, carved and eroded by thousands of years of land management and theharsh northern elements”.
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.
LandscapeCatalogue No. 1Sky Blue over Summer HeatherH13cm ø34cmCameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
LandscapeCatalogue No.2 Gold over Winter HeatherH12cm ø24cmCameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
Landscape
Detail – Landscape Gold over Winter heather
LandscapeCatalogue No.3Autumn Gold over Summer PinkH13cm ø24cmCameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
Moor Top Autumn Sunrise 2015
LandscapeCatalogue No.4 Landscape Cobalt Blue over Opaque RedH13cm ø34cmCameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
LandscapeCatalogue No. 5 Winter Blue over Ice WhiteH13cm ø32cm Cameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
Winters ColourView over Rosedale Moor
Landscape Catalogue No.6Winter Blue over GoldH13cm ø36cmCameo Engraved & Wheel Cut Blown Glass
LandscapeCatalogue No. 7 MonochromeH47cm ø47cmCameo Engraved Blown Glass
LandscapeCatalogue No. 8 MonochromeH45cm ø45cmCameo Engraved Blown Glass
Catalogue of Works
No.1 Sky Blue over Summer Heather £1,240
No.2 Gold over Winter Heather £1,240
No.3 Autumn Gold over Summer Pink £1,240
No.4 Landscape Cobalt Blue over Opaque Red £2,800
No.5 Winter Blue over Opaque White £2,800
No.6 Winter Blue over Cool Gold £2,800
No.7 Monochrome Landscape Spun Plate £1,800 with Stand
No.8 Monochrome Landscape Spun Plate £1,800 with Stand
For more details please email us [email protected]
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 [email protected]