Evelyn Baxter

Media: Glass

Exhibition and News

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting for my own pleasure and now I use a glass kiln to fuse as well.  I have been exploring this medium for about eight years, since I took part in a summer school and was immediately hooked.  I loved the way the glass melted to create soft images but maintained its strength of colour.  Now I have my own cosy garden studio to work in which gives me the freedom to explore new ideas and designs.

My work is also on show in Church Lane Gallery (Number 244 in the brochure) in Banbury OX16 5LT.  We are a cooperative of around 20 local artists and so it is a great place to see a range of art from this region even when it isn’t WOS!  The gallery is open Wednesdays to Saturdays, 10am to either 3 or 4pm all year round.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @churchlanegallery to see what we do.

I will also be exhibiting during Oxfordshire Artweeks (no 274 in the brochure) at Wise Investment, Chalford Park Barns, Oxford Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5QR from Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th May 2026 (closed Monday 11th May) 10am to 5pm.  For more information you can subscribe to my newsletter on my website www.eviebglass.co.uk I promise not to drown you in emails but will only send out a few each year to let you know where I will be exhibiting. Or you can follow me on Instagram or Facebook @eviebglass.

Biography

Glass fusing for me is all about the ability to capture light within coloured glass and this is what you will see in my exhibition. It is what keeps me coming back again and again to explore the different techniques that make it possible.  If you hold a piece of art glass up to the light the effect is magical and entrancing. The effects created using different colours and textures seem to be almost living and it is this that I am always striving to capture and refine.

It is all about light.

I am inspired by the things I see out of my studio window and in my local environment.  The light, capturing passing moments of colour from the garden, landscapes and water and the delicacy of flowers.  I aim to permanently preserve the transience of rural landscapes, garden flowers and rippling streams in glass form.                         

My basic process is to cut shapes from sheets of coloured glass and lay these on a clear background.  I then enhance these shapes to build up an image using powered glass and tiny chips of glass called frit.  Once I am happy with my design, I then heat it in my kiln to between 750° C and 800° C which melts all the pieces together and makes them become one.  Once the kiln is back to room temperature, I put the piece back in on a ceramic mould and fuse it again to shape it.  This is called slumping because the glass drops and slumps into the shape of the mould.  There are so many variations on this technique that I am constantly challenged to see how I can manipulate the flow of the glass in a new way.

Get in touch

Website: https://www.eviebglass.co.uk