Limned Glass

Meet Tom Gaskell

Tom loves the interplay of light with translucent, opalescent, iridised and dichroic glass especially when he can melt different glasses and powders together to create new shapes, colours and forms. He takes inspiration from the world around him – and from the colours, swirls and shapes within the glass itself – to produce fused glass art pieces.

Most of Tom’s work is glass artwork representing birds and the natural world, and this is what he shows at the larger art events, but he does enjoy making a few ornaments and items of tableware and jewellery from time to time. 

Tom is an engineer by education, a business consultant for much of his career and now a glass artist for pleasure and fulfilment. A couple of periods of ill health gave him time for reflection and prompted him to re-evaluate his priorities. As a result he set up a small ‘warm glass’ studio to enable him to fuse, cast and flame-work glass.