Autumn's Arrived

I drove up to Tain (Highlands) on Monday to collect my latest (autumn winter) collection, all cut and polished, just waiting for my wooden contribution. Here's a sneaky peak at one vase before I get down to some serious whittling.


There is 14 pieces in total, all of which I hope to complete before the start of November (eeek!). I'll get some progress posts up in the next few days.

Long Weekend

I went and saw the Ron Mueck exibition at the Aberdeen Art Gallery on Friday. He's a hyperealist sculpture. A few folk had mentioned the exhibition to me a few weeks ago - "He's sculpted a twelve foot new born baby which actually gave me a fright.....". I went and saw it and it was all pretty astonishing. The exhibitions touring round Scotland http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/ar_tour/4:6690/6699.

I picked up my new pieces today from Glasstorm (http://www.glasstorm.com/) in Tain. Thanks Brodie, Tim, Eda, Ramon and Karen for your hard work. Pic's to follow tomorrow.

New Blog

My name is Conan Abel and this is the first post in my new blog. I'm a designer / maker based in Aberdeen Scotland. I make glass and wood vases and bowls, of which I've created my first collection which displayed in the Heinzel gallery in Aberdeen (http://www.galleryheinzel.com/). I'm planning on documenting the progress of my new glass and wood collections and will preview my work in this blog. Also if you wish to contact me about my work you will be able to do so through my blog.

These are some of the pieces that made up my first collection: