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<h1>Helga Watkins-Baker</h1>
<h2>Resident Artist at the Liquid Glass Centre</h2>
<p>Helga makes stained glass panels and cast glass for exhibition, architectural
and site specific commissions. As well as working with traditional stained glass
techniques, she also uses hot glass techniques such as fusing, slumping and
casting. </p>
<p>Helga trained as an archaeologist before becoming interested in traditional
stained glass. Working with glass in this medium led to the desire to use hot
glass techniques in her work. Using slumped and fused glass in her stained glass
panels the glass takes on a new life of light, colour and movement - it is no
longer flat, but reflects light and energy in many directions, from many facets.</p>
<p>In 2000 Helga graduated from Wolverhampton University with a Masters degree
in glass. </p>
<p>The theme of Helga's work is centred around the energy and spirit of nature,
with glass acting as a carrier of this energy, the most obvious being light.
Her work now focuses on large-scale kiln cast sculpture, which is equally at
home in the gallery or the garden.</p>
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