Glass

The highly collectible Zanfirico work of multi-award winning glass artist Mike Hunter, really is of the finest quality, each beautiful zanfirico piece is hand crafted and intricately designed with great care and attention to detail. He has a real passion for working with glass, which shows in the quality and defines his years of experience gained from working with some of the finest glassmakers, including Wedgwood and Perthshire Paperweights. The Zanfirico glass blowing technique, is a highly skilled process and a specialty of Mike Hunter’s that has earned him the 2009 BCTF Award for Excellence in design, innovation and creativity.

Steve Robinson graduated from the University of Wolverhampton a nd since 2002, has run his glass design business with his wife Hannah. His unique contemporary pieces are kiln formed, using the fusing technique. His work is highly influenced by living here in Pembrokeshire near the sea - marine textures and colours featuring in his sumptuous pieces. Breaking news! He has just been awarded the GOLD PRIZE FOR GLASS in the 2010 Craft and Design magazine awards.

Melanie lives in Cardiff and returns to St. Davids as often as she can. She creates these wonderfully joyful pieces from glass. More information to follow.

David moved to Pembrokeshire from Australia in1998. Together with his wife, Lucy, he makes all of the sculptures by freehand lampwork. This is achieved by manipulating rods of borosilicate glass in an oxygen and propane flame of approximately 1200'c. The main component of glass is sand, when the sand is heated it becomes a molten liquid, this is now glass. Glass is a liquid in a frozen state this is where the name Liquid Sand comes from. After working with glass for 30 years David's philosophy is "you can't just work glass you have to work with it."

Bill's work is mouth blown lead crystal which is cut and collaged to produce the fluid designs evocative of the sea, lakes and rivers. He has exhibited throughout UK, Holland, Germany, New York and Japan and has work in the collection in the Muiseum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany. Among his many public commissions, his work is in the Celtic Manor Golf Resort, Newport Wales.

Adam specialises in free blown glass, and his work experiments with the hugely varied possibilities of the medium. His vessels and sculptures are at once a celebration of the simplicity of pure form, and also an investigation into the possibilities of layering. His coloured patinas include complex abstract arrangements, drawing on painterly techniques used by the artists Pollock and Mir, but also inspired by a love of nature and landscape akin to the Impressionists. His work is both exhibited and in collections worldwide.