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| Artist: Hilary
Poole |
| Website:www.pooles-of-light.co.uk |
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| I am
on a voyage of discovery. After a life time designing
computer systems, I have changed the course of my life
and retrained as a glass artist by spending several years
in educational establishments learning new skills. At
the same time introspection has led to a new self awareness
which I never had time to discover in my previous life.
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| My work is influenced
by my love of nature and a desire to understand what it
is that makes something belong. I look at the way in which
nature, in the form of plants and trees, changes the things
that man creates, like walls and fences, and naturalises
them. If a thing belongs and seems at home in its surroundings
then it generates a feeling of comfort. Alongside this
we have people trying to control nature in gardens and
fields. The resulting landscape is one that is familiar
to us, which we have an empathy with and to which we might
say we belong. There is a popular saying that "a
weed is a plant in the wrong place". The experience
for people is similar. They may feel comfortable in a
place but to truly belong they must also accept and be
accepted. Weeds feature frequently in my work. |
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| When I am creating
with glass I am trying to create a feeling of comfort
in the viewer. I want the viewer to feel familiar with
the image or the item. He should be intrigued and amazed
by it and have a desire to look closer inside and ask
questions about how that was achieved. |
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