University of PortsmouthHelga Watkins-BakerI trained in architectural stained glass and developed kiln techniques for glass in postgraduate study at Central St. Martin's and Wolverhampton and was awarded South West Arts' annual Craft award in 1998 and the Worshipful Company of Glaziers' award for research into architectural glass in America. Co-founder of the Liquid Glass Centre, Wiltshire, and a committee member of the Contemporary Glass Society, I commission and create site-specific installations and am also concerned with educational work and community based projects. My current glass work is an interpretation of ideas concerning nature, time, and principally, the energy of natural forces, such as the weather, and how I respond to and visualise these energies as an artist. These energies could, on a simple level, be described as movement, time, flow, but on a deeper level, the universal energies, patterns and vibrations of nature which we, and all things, are imbued with and respond to. I am also interested in the way humans increasingly view nature, which is through the 'eye' of science, through highly stimulating visual images from microscopes to satellites. My intended outcome is to express these ideas in a 'kinetic', i.e. energy transferring, way, to create a literal manifestation of energy through glass, be it currents in flowing water, colours in spectrums of light. Contact: email: helga@watkins-baker.freeserve.co.uk
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