Bridget Jones
Glass
Bridget Jones is an artist working mainly in architectural glass to commission.
Born in Glasgow, she studied Zoology at Edinburgh University, and Leicester University, and worked in university teaching and museum education. A part time degree at Sunderland gave her the opportunity to return to making and creativity, and after graduating in 1988, set up a workshop in Newcastle.
She has worked on major architectural glass commissions including the National Glass Centre; the City Chambers, Edinburgh; Ripon Cathedral; and Arup, Central Square, Newcastle.
She has worked collaboratively with writers and other artists and as a lead artist. As well as artworks in glass she has also designed for stone, metal and textiles. Her practice includes printmaking on paper, and these have become integral to commissions.
Her glass workshop and print studio is situated in rural Northumberland
Q&A's
Describe your creative practice in 20 single words.
Collaborative, original, clean, layered, quality, timeless, modern, colour, meaningful, accessible, pattern, drawing, graphic, architectural, print, domestic, public, craft, handmade, art.
Describe your influences using 30 single words or short phrases.
John Piper, Ben Nicholson, Scandinavian, Robert Burns, Marimekko, Bach, Eric Ravilious, nature, Ann Wolff, Paolozzi, Mimmo Paladino, Romanesque, Lucienne Day, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Anne Redpath, Barbara Rae, typography, Le Corbusier, Henry Moore, mediaeval stained glass, gardens & allotments, Amish quilts, folk art, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Michael Rothenstein, Interiors Magazine, artist's books, 20th century pattern.