For over fifteen years now Sue Jackson has been making and creating glass sculptures and vessels. She graduated from Staffordshire University with a BA Honours in Design.

Inspiration for these works have been as diverse as the images and structures of cell formations to the presence of ancient standing stones and theories relating to the Big Bang and collapsing universes.

The medium of glass can be formed and manipulated by many methods.

Sue uses various traditional as well as experimental techniques which allow her work to be diverse and unique. Methods used vary from those of traditional glass-blowing, kiln forming and casting. The majority of Sue's sculptures are made with molten glass from a furnace. This is gathered onto a solid iron rod (a 'punti' as opposed to a hollow iron used for blowing) and then coloured glass powders are added between layers of clear glass before the molten material is manipulated into the desired form. Once the glass has been annealed overnight, many of the sculptures haves lenses and faces ground and polished into them to reveal colours and movement beneath their surface.

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