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Spotlight 5 - Rebekah Mcvitie


Rebekah's practice is about collecting, reusing, and the past; about re purposing what has been discarded into something beautiful, something one can cherish for a lifetime.

 

Working with sea-glass collected along the Firth of Forth (and beyond) Rebekah creates glass beads using her custom style of lamp-working. The lamp-working method is when a gas torch is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state the glass is wound round a metal rod to form the bead. Each piece of glass is a unique fragment of history - a Victorian medicine vial, an Edwardian beer bottle, a 1920s cosmetic pot or a Vitrolite tile sit side by side creating wonderful mementos of the beach where they were found.

Commission pieces can be made from your own sea glass you have collected from beaches special to you.

Earlier Event: April 15
Spotlight 4 - Tracy Wilson
Later Event: May 20
spotlight 6 - Lynn Hanley