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Vic Bamforth
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In July 2004, Vic completed 3 years full-time education and training at the world famous International Glass Centre, Brierley Hill, UK, gaining an Advanced Diploma in Glass Design.
Vic was awarded a Hot Glass Internship (2005/7) to the Red House Glass Cone, in the historically significant glass making area of Wordsley, Stourbridge in the West Midlands. The area is fast becoming the heart of the growing studio glass movement in the UK .
The basics that drive Vic's expressive, often sculptural work are passion for the material, colour, movement and the unique qualities and properties of glass. The blown form has provided him with an ideal three-dimensional canvas to carry bold, figurative / non-figurative, often humourous content. Vic is a specialist in the painted Graal technique, producing one-off, instantly recognisable pieces using high firing enamels (Paradise Paints) from sunny California! He is now gaining international repute for this type of work, which is becoming sought after by collectors worldwide.
He has exhibited in many exhibitions in the UK, USA, Japan and Europe and in 2002 won the Sam Robinson Award for "Best Interpretation of Glass Quality"
All Vic's pieces are hand blown and this, combined with his own personal approach to glass making, results in works that have been described as, 'beautiful, unusual and unique' and are eminently collectable.
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