Marbellous Lamp

This Marbellous lamp was the first piece I made when I launched Orchid Stained Glass. It is 50cm diameter and features 500 clear marbles and almost 300 white glass ‘shards’, which were individually foiled as part of the traditional copper foil method of construction. It has three ‘tiers’ of shards to give a very rounded shape. I have also made this in a smaller, 38cm diameter version and with green marbles and feature shards in a two-tier version.

The design has a stylish Art Deco feel and I chose the neutral colour to enhance the strong design created by the blacked patina on the solder. The copper around each marble gives a subtle, warm glow when the lamp is lit. It stands on a complementary metal base with antique finish.

I was delighted that this lamp was selected for a prestigious, juried specialist glass exhibition at Blackwell the Arts & Crafts House in Cumbria (January-March 2013), called ‘New Glass – Ancient Skill, Traditional Artform’. Judges for the exhibition included Reino Liefkes, curator of Glass and Ceramics at the V&A Museum, London, and Victoria Scholes, chair of the Contemporary Glass Society.

You can commission your own version of Marbellous in a colour and size (50cm diameter; 38cm diameter and 30cm diameter) of your choice.