Greenpiece

Greenpiece is one of a series of glass sculptures that Ray Flavell (b.1944) made during the early 1990s. They combine blown and flat glass sculptural forms with graphic sand-blasted motifs. Flavell creates the design by masking the glass and ‘blasting’ the exposed areas with a high speed jet of a fine abrasive such as sand. This piece, with its irregular amoeba-like shape, decoration of emerging forms and green and blue colouring, symbolises new life.

Flavell spent a year in Sweden training at the celebrated Orrefors glass school, and his works have a clarity which may well be the result of this formative period.