Following our visit to Shetland and particularly Fetlar, I decided to attempt a Red-necked Phalarope glass wave... Click here for the blog on the day. Now the Phalarope was a long way off and obscured by lovely lochan vegetation, so the piece had to feature Bog Bean, Horse Tails and Marsh Marigold. When I found myself cutting glass rods up to form the lines in the Horse Tails I wondered why I do this to myself! Anyway here is the piece - over all I was happy with it - slightly disappointed in the fact that during the firing process the beak of the bird had drooped a little but hey ho! I'm certainly not making another one and from a distance it looks great! I also liked the slightly geometric grid effect of the verticals for the Horse Tails and the horizontal lines for the receeding layers of Bog Bean. Somehow this reminded me of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's designs. The Bog Bean was challenging - fiddly to do, but may evolve into a larger piece at sometime, as it is up there in my favourite plants ...
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