9 Intricate Designs Of Seaweeds Made From Glass By Andrea Spencer
Based in rural Ballintoy on the North Antrim Coast in the north of Ireland, Spencer has developed a signature style in flameworked glass and mixed media. Her delicate, almost ephemeral installations and sculptures are deeply inspired by nature and reflect the human condition.
Her Sea Glass series is a poetic, evolving body of work that echoes the patterns and forms of the shoreline. Inspired by close observation, each piece is translated into glass sculpted in the flame, a fragment cast up and stranded by the turning tide, a quiet missive to the sea. “I am drawn to the quiet poetry of transformation,” Spencer says. “Glass fascinates me because it holds opposites, strength and fragility, clarity and mystery, control and surrender. Working with it feels like a dialogue that asks for patience, precision, and trust in the unexpected.”
On the balance she seeks between the material’s natural form and her intervention, she adds: “My inspiration often begins in nature. I’m drawn to fleeting details and the small miracles we almost overlook. In my studio, I try to translate that sense of wonder into form, capturing moments that feel suspended between stillness and movement. Through my work, I hope to offer moments of reflection — quiet spaces where light, form, and feeling meet.”
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#1 “Seaweed Bladderwrack”
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#3 “Mariner’s Tale.”
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#5 “Siren’s Song”
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#6 “Seaweed Irish Moss”
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