Lorraine Keeler

Lorraine Keeler is a designer who creates handcrafted pieces in glass. The range of items that she creates is extensive and includes Garden Art, individual pieces of jewellery, bowls, panels for walls, doors and windows. Using the wonderful range of colours available in art and dichroic glass with the addition of metals and powders, and the techniques of fusing, slumping and draping make every piece unique. The process involves heating layers of glass to high temperatures in a kiln so the layers are fused together. In a further process the glass can be heated again to take the shape of a mould, called slumping and draping. Lorraine has been developing her craft and skills over the past 18 years, having been inspired by the way that glass can be worked on its own and with other materials, to create things of beauty.