Foraged Finds
As the seasons unfold I find myself continually collecting things. I enjoy working with the alchemic and ancient properties of glass to distil nature into something else.
The natural world continues to inform my practice in surprising new ways. I have become invested in the slow meditative practices of growing, tending, foraging and harvesting. I use traditional skills like casting, gilding and engraving to create contemporary sculptural objects and jewellery
Effie Burns Glass
Whitby, England
A collection of cast glass botanical specimens from an oak tree. The collection includes marble oak galls, acorns and a gilded oak twig.
A process image of me gilding a cast glass conker. In 2019 I received a Developing Your Creative Practice grant and worked with a master gilder to learn this technique.
A tower of botanical specimens cast from the originals foraged in Whitby, including an acorn gilded in 23.5 carat gold, a young conker and a crab apple.