Chappel Galleries
Contemporary Fine Art
Established 1986
T: +44 (0) 1206 240326
E: info@chappelgalleries.co.uk
Chappel Galleries
Contemporary Fine Art
Established 1986
T: +44 (0) 1206 240326
E: info@chappelgalleries.co.uk
Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm or by appointment
Sizes quoted are of artworks. Where enquiries of prices are made on the gallery, the work is subject to availability and the price to change.Further images to come - details and prices tba.
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Angela is an internationally active artist, researcher, educator and author. She exhibits regularly on an International basis and has more than 40 years’ experience of working in glass.
Angela’s art practice focuses on glass sculpture, including commissions, site responsive works, wearables and collaborations with other artists. Angela has taught in UK Universities and Colleges, and Specialist Academies and Masterclasses across Europe and the USA.
With a research profile that began formally at the Royal College of Art (1999-2001), Angela has contributed regularly to the body of knowledge in glass including her first book, Mould Making for Glass that was commissioned and published by Bloomsbury (2011).
Having received an AHRC Scholarship, Angela graduated from the University of Sunderland, 2018, with a PhD focused on uniting digital and analogue making titled ‘Towards Making The Unmakeable : How 3D Printing Can Inform Kiln Formed Glass Practice in 21st Century.’
Brief Artist Statement:
Not only is the act of making a significant part of what it is to be human connecting deeply and indivisibly with nature and life itself, but the subject matter from which my artwork is drawn is real things and life experiences.
Exploring form, colour light and scale through combinations of digital and physical process, the glass sculpture I make offers fresh perspectives on the world we inhabit. My aim is to connect the viewer through references, however subtle, humorous or implied, to the everyday sources used to develop ideas and to reconsider their significance.
Exploring monumental form on a range of scales, the sculpture I make offers fresh perspectives on the world we inhabit. Some sculptures are the size of your little finger nail others stand tall as a child with deep, intense colour, their mass drinking light.
With a background influenced by Czech Cubism and Surrealism and a playful attitude, ideas derived from the ordinary stuff of life develop into real and imagined material outcomes. Found, made and grown elements, freely modelled through orthodox and improvisational approaches, emerge as either simple, classic forms or complex 3D collages.
Subtle, sometimes humorous references connect to the often eccentric results of human action within made and natural environments. Curious details suggest things morphing, shifting, appearing and disappearing unexpectedly.
Glass has mercurial and contradictory qualities. On the one hand it has the ability to translate and reflect; perfectly; on the other it is changeable, distorting, subverting intentions and meanings. It is hard and soft, fragile and strong, permanent and impermanent all at the same time. This makes it a compelling material to work with, full of both physical and metaphorical potential, ideal for telling stories.
Glass as a sculptural medium has ancient roots in the Far and Middle East. In a contemporary context 4,000 year old techniques meet digital process. These more recent making strategies combining digital with the material presence of the handmade extend my visual language in sculpture. The results are entirely new possibilities and paradigms, a sense of optimism in an increasingly fragile world.
Angela Thwaites 2025
2024‘New Horizons’, Stourbridge Glass Museum, International Festival of Glass UK
2024‘Brought to Light’, curated by Just Glass, International Festival of Glass, UK
202415 x 15 at Blowfish Gallery, Stourbridge, UK
2024International Festival of Glass, UK, British Glass Bead Biennale
2024Poolside Gallery, Fresh Air, Quenington Old Rectory, UK
2023-4Showcase at Contemporary Applied Art, London, U.K.
2022International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, U.K.invited to create new wearable glass for ‘Hot HanBok Cool Glass’ fashion extravaganza
2022Wolverhampton Art Gallery, U.K. ‘Collaborations’, with Liz Waugh McManus
2022Bead Biennale, British Glass Biennale, IFG, Stourbridge, UK
2022‘Stories - Whispers from the Past and Present’, Trades House, Glasgow and WASPS, Inverness; co-curated by CGS/Scottish Glass Society, U.K.
2022‘Flow’, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff co-curated with CGS, U.K.
2022Glass Glamour, Quenington Old Rectory, Gloucestershire, U.K.
2021Museum of Glass, Tacoma, USA, ‘Vessel Line up, 2021’ exhibited with ‘Rene Lalique: Art Deco Gems from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection.
2020Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK
2019‘New Glass Now’, International Review at Corning Museum of Glass, USA
2019‘Loud and Clear 2’, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, curated by the National Glass Centre, UK
2019‘NGC21’, celebrating the 21st birthday of the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2019‘Lightbox 2: an exploration of Glass, Light and other phenomena’, curated with New London Glass Artist’s Collective, Holy Saviour, West Croydon, UK
2018‘Lightbox: an exploration of Glass, Light and other phenomena’, Curated by New London Glass Artists Collective, St John’s on Bethnal Green, London, UK
2018Breaking the Mould’, London glass Blowing Gallery
2018‘Loud and Clear’, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, UK
2018‘Glasshuis XII’, Parndon Mill, Harlow, U.K.
2018‘Light Embodied’, Pembroke College, Oxford, in conjunction with ‘Science, Imagination and Wonder’ conference, part of ‘Ordered Universe’ trans-disciplinary international research project
2017-18‘Jewellery/Wearable Glass’, National Glass Centre, Sunderland U.K. touring to Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, and Oxo Tower, London.
2017‘British Glass Biennale’, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge, UK
2007-9 ‘Czech and Slovak Glass in Exile’, touring to Moravian Gallery, Brno, Moravia, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Riihimaki Museum, Finland, Glyptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
2022Stourbridge Glass Museum, U.K
2019National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2014The National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2003Cowdy Gallery Glass Collection, Gloucestershire, U.K.
2000Gozthony Kuria, Kaposvar, Hungary
1998Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany
1997Museum of Decorative Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2022Invited to develop new work in collaboration with Liz Waugh McManus, supported by Eaton Fund and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
2019National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK special commission to develop and make a new artwork ‘Always Coming Home’ for the permanent collection to celebrate National Glass Centre’s 21st Birthday
2004-8Large scale castings for international sculptor Anya Gallaccio
2006Glass casting consultancy to sculptor Brian Catling (former Emeritus Professor, Ruskin College, Oxford), on his commission for Historic Royal Palaces monument at the Tower of London, UK
2021-2Awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice grant (DYCP) by Arts Council England
2019Northern Powerhouse Investment Funding through University of Sunderland, for Post-Doctoral Innovation Placement at Danny Lane Studios, London, UK
2018Graduated with PhD from University of Sunderland, UK
2014-18Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholar, practice based PhD, University of Sunderland, UK
1983-1985Awarded four Consecutive Post Graduate Scholarships from the British Council to study MA with Professor Libensky at the Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czechia)
1982Distinction Licentiateship, Society of Designer Craftsmen, UK
1982Bowman Webber Prize for the use of Flat Glass, hosted by Coleridge of Highgate Gallery, London, UK
1981Pilchuck Glass Summer School with Klaus Moje, Seattle, USA
1979-1982BAHons in Ceramics and Glass at West Surrey College of Art and Design (now UCA), Farnham, UK, graduating with Upper Second Class Honours Degree.
1979Foundation in Art and Design, Colchester Institute for Higher Education, Essex, UK
2021Appointed Visiting Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), University of West England, UK
2019-20Post-Doctoral Innovation Placement, Danny Lane Studio, London, UK, funded by Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund via University of Sunderland.
2019Co-teaching Specialist Casting Workshops with Max Jacquard Glass, Greensand Barn, U.K.
2018‘Digital Footprints in Glass’, Co-leader, Master class, Pilchuck Glass School, USA
2018‘Glassworks’, experimental inter-disciplinary 3D print and glass casting workshop, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, U.K.
2016‘Un-object’, Co-leader, Masterclass, Pilchuck Glass School, USA
2016Visiting lecturer, Royal College of Art
2015Master class leader, Northlands Glass, Scotland
2007-14Senior lecturer, Design Crafts, De Montfort University, U.K.
1999-2002Researcher at Royal College of Art, UK on Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project culminating in writing and publication of ‘Mixing With The Best’
1994-1999Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton, UK
2022‘Glass in a Restless Age’, essay in ‘The Glass Reader’ (ISBN:978-1350067752) editors K. Petrie and J. Sarmiento, Bloomsbury
2020‘New Glass Review 40’, Corning Museum of Glass, USA
2019‘New Glass Now’ 40th Anniversary issue of New Glass Review, (ISBN: 978- 0-87290-218-3), Corning Museum of Glass, USA
2019‘NGC 21’ (ISBN: 978-1-906832-37-7), Exhibition Catalogue, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2019‘Designing and Making Glass Jewellery’ (ISBN:978-1-78500-677-7), Mirka Janeckova, Crowood press
2017‘Jewellery/Wearable Glass’ (ISBN:978-1-906832-29-2), Exhibition catalogue National Glass Centre, Sunderland and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
2017‘New Glass Review 38’, (ISBN: 978-0-87290-211-4), Corning Museum of Glass, USA
2017‘British Glass Biennale’, Exhibition catalogue (ISBN:978-0-9547573-6-6), UK
2017‘Slovo’ magazine, ‘Glass in a restless age’ commissioned article on Czech Glass
2014 ‘Hsinchu City International Glass Art Festival’ Exhibition Catalogue, (ISBN: 978-986-04-1571-1), Hsinchu City,Taiwan
2011‘Mould Making for Glass’, (ISBN: 978-1408-114339), commissioned and published by Bloomsbury
2007‘Czech and Slovak Glass in Exile’ Exhibition catalogue, (ISBN:978-80-7027-172-8(MG) and ISBN: 978-80-86970-49-3 (Kant)), Sylva Petrova
2002‘Mixing With The Best’ (ISBN 1 874 175 84 5), Royal College of Art, UK
2025Pilchuck Glass School Casting Glass Conference (upcoming August)
2020CiC28 on line Conference, invited by CFPR, UWE to present in ‘Colour in Art Workshop’
2020Glass Art Society Virtual Conference, video presentation ‘Miniature/Monumental: Digital Physical approaches to cast glass sculpture’
2018‘Glassworks’, Arnolfini, Bristol with CFPR/UWE
2018‘Science, Imagination and Wonder’ Conference Pembroke College, Oxford part of ‘Ordered Universe’ International trans-disciplinary research project
2016‘European Glass Context’, Bornholm, Denmark, selected to present
2013‘Collective Vision’, invited to give a paper and demonstration at Ausglass Conference, New South Wales, Australia
2013Irish Glass Society conference, invited to present and lead workshop
2002‘Mixing With The Best’ paper given at International Glass Art Society Annual Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001‘Mixing With The Best’ paper and hosting of Conference at Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
Winter Dreaming 1. |
15 h. cm |
£900 |
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2 |
Winter Dreaming 2. |
22h. cm |
£900 |
|
3 |
Hortopiary –Tree trunk/Gem |
11h. cm |
£600 |
|
4 |
Hortopiary –Long Log/Sofa |
10 h. cm |
£700 |
|
5 |
Hortopiary-Tree/Wood/Snail |
13 h. cm |
£600 |
|
6 |
Hortoculus |
60 diameter cm |
£10,000 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
|
7 |
Tearseed |
22 long cm |
£3,500 |
|
8 |
Anthropo |
35.5 h. cm |
£4,000 |
|
9 |
Red Flower |
22 h. cm |
£1,500 |
|
10 |
Grey Flower |
42 h. cm |
£4,500 |
|
11 |
Hortus Conclusus – Hanging x3 |
13/8.5/8.5 diameter cm each |
£850 |
|
12 |
Visceral |
h.7 x w.20 x 16cm |
£1,800 |
|
13 |
Footseed |
15 cm long |
£1,500 |
|
14 |
Refuge ( Amber pair) |
13 cm diameter each |
£1,400 |
|
15 |
Prospect ( light ice blue pair) |
14 cm long each |
£1,400 pair |
|
16 |
Stretch Bagelys ( light green pair ) |
10 cm long each |
£750 pair |
|
17 |
Rock Lobster |
h.7 x w.13 x d.16cm |
££1,500 |
|
18 |
Rock Lobster handstand |
h.17 x w.15 x d. 6cm |
££900 |
|
19 |
Rock Lobster mini |
h.2 x w.4 x d 3cm. |
£150 |
|
20 |
Sugar Eyes |
h.12 x w.20 x d.16cm |
£1,500 |
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21 |
Informal Mass |
23 long cm |
£700 |
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22 |
Informal Mass |
26 long cm |
£700 |
|
23 |
Informal Mass |
20 long cm |
£700 |
|
24 |
Informal Mass |
25 long cm |
£700 |
|
25 |
Informal Mass |
16 long cm |
£700 |
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26 |
Amber Eyes (pair) |
12 long cm each |
£1,400 |
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27 |
Pelnypusty (pair) |
10 long cm each |
£1,400 |
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28 |
Coracles (four) |
7 cm x3 / 5 cm x1 long |
£1,200 |
|
29 |
Coracles stretch ( pair) |
24 / 24 cm long |
£750 |
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30 |
Rampant Inflation (oblong) |
18 cm h |
£450 |
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31 |
Double Think |
17 / 23 h. cm pair |
£2,800 pair |
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32 |
Hortus Conclusus |
8 diameter cm |
£700 |
|
33 |
Hortus Conclusus |
8 diameter cm |
£700 |
|
34 |
Hortus Conclusus |
8 diameter cm |
£700 |
|
35 |
Rampant Inflation |
13 h. cm |
£450 |
|
36 |
Rampant Inflation |
20 h. cm |
£450 |
|
37 |
Rampant Inflation |
17 h. cm |
£450 |
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38 |
Double Tearseed (matte) |
10 h. cm |
£1,400 |
|
39 |
Double Tearseed (polished) |
10 h. cm |
£1,500 |
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40 |
Double Egg |
8 width cm |
£450 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
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41 |
Coracles (set of three) |
6 x 4 diameter cm each |
£900 |
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42 |
Hortopiary- Hawk/Egg (Amber) |
19 h. cm |
£700 |
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43 |
Hortopiary- Fruit/rock/House(Amber) |
16 h. cm |
£700 |
|
44 |
Hortopiary-Owl/walnut/wood(Amber) |
20 h. cm |
£700 |
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45 |
Hortopiary-Hawk/Egg/wood (light green) |
15 h. cm |
£375 |
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46 |
Hortopiaryhawk/egg (Yellow Opal) |
12 h. cm |
£275 |
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47 |
Hortopiary hawk/egg(Blue Opal) |
6. h. cm |
£225 |
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48 |
Hawk( Turquoise) |
6 h. cm |
£85 |
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49 |
Hawk(Amber) |
6 h. cm |
£85 |
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50 |
Hawk(Apricot) |
6 h. cm |
£85 |
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51 |
Square Dog Ring Thing |
3.5 flat cm |
£200 |
|
52 |
Wild Boar/ Swan Ring Thing |
5 h. cm |
£300 |
|
53 |
Hortopiary Sofa/Snail/Walnut ( Lilac) |
6.6 h. cm |
£250 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
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54 |
Half Moon ( Stone base) |
11.5 h. cm |
£1,200 |
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55 |
Hortopiary – bird bath on tree stump |
20 h. cm |
£700 |
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56 |
Blue Cats |
Left h.24 x w.38 x d.26cm |
£2,400 |
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56 |
Blue Cats |
Middle h.20 x w.44 x d.28cm |
£2,400 |
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56 |
Blue Cats |
Right h.11 x w.25 x d.42cm |
£2,400 |
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57 |
Turkish Boats |
h.7 x w.12 x length 30cm each |
£1,500 pair |
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58 |
Blink |
h.26 x w.34 cm each |
£5,000 |
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59 |
Queen Elizabeth 1 |
h.51 x w.23 x d.20 |
£8,000 |
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60 |
Socrates |
h.47 x w.36 x d23cm |
£8,000 |
|
61 |
Rain Man |
h.46 x w.22 x d30cm |
£8,000 |
|
62 |
Ice Eyes |
h.12 x w,31 x d.25cm each |
£2,400 each |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
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63 |
Eggy With Leg ( Blue) |
h. 33 x 25 cm |
£450 |
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64 |
Eggy with Leg Talking Heads I |
h. 41 x 22 cm |
£600 |
|
65 |
Lemon Repose |
h. 91 x 25 cm |
£2000 |
|
66 |
Lemon Repose |
h. 91 x 28 cm |
£2000 |
|
67 |
Eggy with Leg Talking Heads II |
h. 29 x 17 cm |
£600 |
|
68 |
Eggy with Leg (Yellow) |
h. 29 x 22 cm |
£450 |
|
69 |
Eggy with Leg Talking Heads III |
h. 29 x 17 cm |
£600 |
|
70 |
Eggy with Leg and Talking Heads IV |
h. 46 x 24 cm |
£700 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
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71 |
Globey Akimbo(Crystal) |
10. h. cm |
£600 |
|
72 |
Globus Precaritas (Light Mink) |
10 h cm |
£500 |
|
73 |
Eggy With Leg(Crystal) |
8 h. cm |
£400 |
|
74 |
Globey With Leg (Amber) |
9 h. cm |
£400 |
|
75 |
Eggy With Scaff Leg (Crystal) |
12 h. cm |
£600 |
|
76 |
Half Eggy with Scaff and side Leg(Crystal) |
8 h. cm |
£400 |
|
77 |
Globey with Ladders(Polished) |
5 h. cm |
£600 |
|
78 |
Flat Globey with Ladders (Amber, Engraved and polished) |
6 h. cm |
£600 |
|
79 |
Half Eggy with Scaff (Crystal) |
9 h. cm |
£500 |
|
80 |
Globey with Ladders ( Matte) |
6 h. cm |
£600 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
|
81 |
Vessel Line up (Set of Six) |
8 h. to 3.5 h. lowest to highest |
£1500 |
|
82 |
Rock Lobsters (three facetted) |
5 long cm each |
£250 each |
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83 |
Shipwrecks (three) |
5, 6, 7 h. cm each |
£200 each |
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84 |
Northlands Lenses |
11 h. cm |
£350 |
|
85 |
Flat Globey Minis (three) |
3.5,2.5 ,2 cm |
£120 each |
|
86 |
Lego Wall |
8 h. cm |
£350 |
|
87 |
Mountain Mini Vessel |
6.5 cm |
£85 |
|
88 |
Owl Rings (three) |
2.5 h. cm each |
£120 |
|
89 |
Croissanty Caterpillar(light Green) |
7 long cm |
£400 |
|
90 |
Croissant(crystal) |
3 long cm |
£75 |
|
91 |
Bastet(white cat) |
7 h. cm |
£150 |
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92 |
Ruby Loop(Larger) |
5.5 h. cm |
£150 |
|
93 |
Ruby Loop ( smaller) |
3 h. cm |
£120 |
|
94 |
Phlomis Cup |
|
£175 |
|
95 |
Eggy Bottle (Pale Gray) |
9.5 h. cm |
£250 |
|
96 |
MountainMirrorEgg (Crystal) |
11 h. cm |
£150 |
|
97 |
Barn Owl on wood |
10.5 h. cm |
£300 |
|
98 |
Little Owl on Cloud (Light Blue Opal) |
15 h. cm |
£400 |
|
99 |
Cherry Egg (Light Blue Opal) |
10.5 h. cm |
£300 |
|
100 |
Cherry Stone ( Yellow Opal) |
7 h. cm |
£200 |
|
101 |
Little Owl on Wood |
9.5 cm |
£225 |
|
101a |
Coracle Mountain |
3.5 h. |
£175 |
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No. |
Title |
Size cm |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
|
102 |
Sofa/cloud/twig(Turquoise) |
15 h. cm |
£350 |
|
103 |
Mini Sofa/twig/gold(Turquoise) |
9 h. cm |
£225 |
|
104 |
Croissanty Gem base (Dark blue/green) |
7.5 h. cm |
£275 |
|
105 |
Wild Boar Double Ring |
6 h. cm |
£275 |
|
106 |
Cockerel ( Emerald, gold) |
6 h. cm |
£200 |
|
107 |
Sofa/Gem(Semillion/red) |
4.5 h.cm |
£225 |
|
108 |
Double mini croissant (Turquoise/crystal) |
5 h. cm |
£185 |
|
109 |
Allis-( light mink) |
5 h. cm |
£175 |
|
110 |
Seven Snails (Light green) |
7 h. OD cm |
£275 |
|
111 |
One Eared Rabbit(Light mink) |
5.5 h. OD cm |
£185 |
|
112 |
Two Eared Rabbit(Amber/Gold Pink) |
6 h. OD cm |
£275 |
|
113 |
Silver Fish( Opalinewhite) |
4.5 h. cm |
£185 |
|
114 |
Coracle(Dark blue/green, terracotta) |
3.5 long cm |
£175 |
|
115 |
House (Pale aqua/silver) |
5.5 h. cm |
£200 |
|
116 |
Life Raft ( Crystal) |
3.5 long cm |
£85 |
|
117 |
Tree |
2.5 long cm |
£55 |
|
118 |
Hawk |
10 h.cm |
£400 |