Verity feels a strong, emotional connection with the natural world - a world she magically recreates in exquisitely crafted, finely observed glass creations.
In minute sculptures she celebrates, replicates and reimagines the complexity of life - the glorious abundance and diversity of life forms found in the flora and fauna of her home and the world around her. Fascinated by natural structures, shapes, textures and colour, Verity explores the beautiful symphony she sees in nature - the layers of complexity, where every living form is unique yet connected to a universal oneness, bringing to the surface what is otherwise hidden and of another world. This place of connection, belonging and communion she describes as a blissful, expansive and calm space that she accesses through nature, shares and communicates through the medium of glass.
In her studio in North Wales, Verity experiments with casting, pate de verre, kilnformed, etched and painted glass, explores the interactions of light and shadow, of reflection and refraction to create vessels, sculpture, installations, architectural and public art to capture this magical world. Constantly playing and combining techniques, her recent work has more fluidity, a more organic feel and form, where she trusts the gravity of the kiln to shape and stretch her work.
But it is her fascination with the microscopic structures within algae, fungi, lichen, mosses, grass and ferns that continues to inspire and inform her work. In cataloging this underground, mystical, microscopic world, Verity challenges us to see and understand the world in a different way - using the language of glass to create magical forms, stories and collections, connecting us to her fascination and love of nature - to the amazing, wonderful sensitive and delicate material that is glass.
In this Digital Exhibition to celebrate the UN International Year of Glass, we showcase pieces from her figurative and ‘fabulous’ collections that have won, and continue to attract, attention from around the world.
World Class Credentials
In the UK Verity was selected to showcase her work through Northlands Creative at Collect 2022 - the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design
Organised by the Craft Council, Collect is an annual event held at Somerset House and a career milestone for some of the most innovative and creative talent within the international craft world.
Verity will be showcasing again at Collect 2023 with Northlands Creative.
2022 also saw her work shortlisted for the Charlotte Fraser Ceramics and Glass Prize at the Holt Festival.
Her work is also available in two galleries in London - the prestigious Vessel Gallery and Peter Layton’s London Glassblowing.
In America
Verity’s work was selected for exhibitions by Bullseye Glass at the Bellevue Arts Museum before touring to Pittsburgh Glass Centre and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
In Europe
Verity is listed with the prestigious Homer Faber Guide. In 2022 she was selected to participate in the Homer Faber exhibition at the Giorgio Cini Foundation Venice.
