Myra Fricker
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How would you describe the work you do and why?
My work is often quirky, intricate, using a range of techniques. I make it to please myself, if others also appreciate it, that’s great. Ideas can be as simple as reflections or how it feels to float in the ocean, look up at night sky. It may resonate differently with you, than me.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
Being able to express an idea in a beautiful and not always controllable medium. I also love how glass changes in the light, and can catch the eye anew in sunlight or artificial light. It can convey a lot of movement and change.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
I’m primarily a glass artist, I make kiln formed glass. My practice usually starts with a drawing, and then I realise it in glass. Ideas come from nature, poetry, people, feelings.
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
I have a degree in fine art which I gained as a mature student from the University of East London, though I didn’t learn glass there. My glass practice developed subsequently through adult ed classes, short courses, and a lot of trial and error.
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
h.Art and FarOpen open studios, each of last 3 years.
Severn Sisters gallery exhibition (2025) on theme of Alice Oswald poem, Sleepwalk on the Severn
Art in Penalt 2023 and 2025