Mel Howse - First Art Bath

Take an old Victorian cast iron bath, add the imagination of leading glass artist, Mel Howse, the same furnaces used to make the signs on the London Underground and finally a grant from the Queen and you end up with a piece of art which is vibrant azure and rippling with movement even before it is filled with water.

Mel employed the same artistic techniques that she used to created the 500m2 glazed façade of the flagship Sainsbury's in Milton Keynes, and her modern cathedral scale church windows in Angmering West Sussex. Layers upon layers of vitreous enamels have been hand worked: the colours finely tuned and fired to create an intense sumptuous rippling surface.The cast vessel is then fired to white hot temperatures, only revealing its permanent composition and colour as it cools. It is a process requiring much faith and intuition from the artist.This is the first 'Art Bath'. It is a unique piece of functional art, totally original and signed by the artist as works of fine art are.

Go here to find out more http://www.melhowse.com

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[ajwellsandsons]

Fantastic!

[funkjunkies1]

GREAT SOUND TRACK!!!

[funkjunkies1]

AMAZING ART WORK!!