CLASSES
& DEMONSTRATIONS
Bio: Frances has been
gilding 25 years. 1967 graduated in Graphic Design from
Camberwell School of Art, London. She has worked on
numerous projects as a gilder and as a specialist in
verre églomisé, reverse painting and gilding
on glass. In 1992 she travelled to San Francisco, to
decorate Ann Getty's dining room, and stayed. 11 years
later she is finally coming back to where her heart
is, London.
Frances has been teaching all this time, in London,
New York, San Francisco, as well as Calcutta and Vietnam.
She gives demonstrations at museums such as the V&A,
and the Wallace Collection, London, and in the U.S.
is a frequent instructor and demonstrator at the Legion
of Honour Museum, San Francisco, and Corning Museum
of Glass, New York. She works to commission, as well
as being an artist in her own right: for commissioned
work she is represented by Renwick and Clark, Battersea,
and the Victoria and Albert Museum have recently acquired
a piece of her work, Annie Get Your Gun, for their contemporary
glass galleries.
She is editor of The Gilder's Tip: a twice
yearly journal of The Society of Gilders, an international
professional organization based in the US.
Presently Frances is working on a book on the history
and the techniques of Verre Églomisé,
or Hinterglasmalerei, literally behind glass
painting as it is historically known. There is almost
nothing published on the art in English, and certainly
nothing that is contemporary research.
Class will be announced as they are scheduled.
As Frances is in full time education at the moment
her teaching schedule has been reduced.
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