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SHELLEY DOOLAN

Glass Artist / Gwneuthurwr Gwydr

Shelley is a glass maker and researcher. The material qualities of glass continue to be a source of inspiration and fascination. Over-arching interests include the interaction of glass and light and the way in which form and finish delineate space and mediate our experience. Having learnt techniques including glass blowing, casting and the delights of cold-working, it is the process of lost-wax casting that captured her imagination. It is a technique which affords enormous scope for expression. Inspiration is drawn from the experience of innumerable details and textures encountered every day. Today through the sense of touch of lichen and rock, the fleeting scent of gorse, the rhythm of waves and glint of sunlight on water.

Through her work Shelley seeks to find a resonance, a remembrance of sensual experience; a locus for the body as well as for the mind and the eye. She draws upon pattern both for form and for texture and exploits the qualities of glass response to light, effect of relief details to model with colour and light. Shelley produces glass for a variety of contexts, applications and scale. The work is currently available on a commission basis, with a range of 'ready-made' lighting in development. There is an ongoing process of development of new designs and ideas.

Mae Shelley yn ymchwilydd ac yn wneuthurwr gwydr. Mae nodweddion gwydr yn parhau i fod o ddiddordeb mawr iddi ac yn ffynhonnell o ysbrydoliaeth. Mae ganddi ddiddordeb yn y cysylltiad rhwng gwydr a golau a'r ffordd y mae’r ffurf yn medru disgrifio’r gofod a dwysáu’r profiad.
Ar ôl dysgu technegau gan gynnwys chwythu gwydr, castio a gweithio â gwydr oer, fe wnaeth y broses o gastio cwyr coll ddal ei dychymyg. Mae'n dechneg sy'n cynnig cwmpas enfawr o fynegiant iddi. Mae’n cael ei ysbrydoli gan nifer o fanylion a gweadau o’i bywyd bob dydd. Er enghraifft, teimlo cen a chraig, arogl eithin, rhythm y tonnau a’r haul yn tywynnu ar arwyneb y dŵr.

Trwy ei gwaith, mae Shelley yn ceisio canfod cyseiniant, a chofio profiad synhwyrol; locws ar gyfer y corff yn ogystal ag ar gyfer y meddwl a'r llygad. Mae'n defnyddio patrwm ar gyfer ffurf a gwead, mae'n manteisio ar rinweddau gwydr â goleuni ac effaith manylion rhyddhad i fodelu gyda lliw a golau. Mae Shelley yn cynhyrchu gwydr ar gyfer amrywiaeth o gyd-destunau, cymwysiadau a graddfa. Mae'r gwaith ar gael ar sail comisiwn ar hyn o bryd, gydag amrywiaeth o oleuadau 'parod' yn cael eu datby eu datblygu. Mae yna broses barhaus o ddatblygu dyluniadau a syniadau newydd.