VIDEO

KAY GIBBONS GLASS ART

BIOGRAPHY

My name is Kay an artist working with glass from my studio in South Oxfordshire. I work to commission making windows for public buildings and domestic settings. I also teach Beginners Stained Glass workshops on the last Sundays of the month in my studio space in Abingdon.

My journey into glass began quite unexpectedly. I was asked to consider designing and making a window for the refurbished unit at The Phoenix Unit, Littlemore Hospital where I had been a patient . I accepted the opportunity, wanting to bring colour and beauty into the space , wishing to uplift and alleviate the sadness and darkness of those who stayed there temporarily.

I was then invited to be Artist in Residence for Artscape and as such went onto my next public building commission at The Warneford Hospital in Oxford where I designed and made a window for the Main Corridor.

Following this I accepted a commission to design and create a window in The Sanctuary Faith Room at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.
This window is included in the book,
‘The Stained Glass and Chapels of Oxford’ – by Dominic Price.

When I design a window I like to get a sense for the place it will be situated. I like to involve the clients as much as possible, recently asking a family to colour my design for their window onto paper so that I could use their colour choices so then they could in a sense ‘own’ the window as theirs.

I owe much to the late Vital Peeters, a very dear friend who taught me how to make my first window and set me on the path I’m on now as a Stained glass artist.

I am a prolific artist. I also paint and sculpt. I have an abstract style which is linear, free-flowing and full of movement. This is counterbalanced by other work which is more rigidly geometric in its use of pattern, shape and form.
There is a fluid interplay between my glasswork designs and my 2D work.

I am so fortunate to be able to spend my days thriving in what I create and how. My creativity is boundless and what joy it is to be able to say so and to share it with so many people.

STUDIO

Kay works from her studio in South Oxfordshire
creating stained glass for public commissions and
domestic settings.

The Charter Studios ,
Abingdon
OX14 3LZ

BEGINNERS STAINED GLASS WORKSHOPS

Kay teaches every last Sunday of the month from her
studio in Abingdon.

Kay paints and sculpts and exhibits regularly with the
Oxford Art Society and West Ox Arts Gallery.

OXFORD ART SOCIETY. OAS
WESTOXARTS. WOA
CONTEMPORARY GLASS SOCIETY. CGS

PUBLICATIONS

• Kay’s Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre window is included in
  ‘THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS AND CHAPELS OF OXFORD’ Author Dominic Price.

PODCAST

Listen to Kay on the ART MUSINGS PODCAST, below.

(Also available on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms)

Direct link to Art Musings Podcast