Colin Reid is as an international pioneer in the field of kilncast glass. Reid studied at St Martins College of Art and Stourbridge School of Art and trained as a scientific glassblower. He is an acknowledged master of cast glass as an artistic medium and has work represented in over sixty international public collections. His sources of inspiration are numerous, but each work uses the qualities of glass – transparency, refraction and reflection – to extraordinary, dynamic effect. The Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch commissioned Colin Reid to make a Books series for Bowhill and to make four glass book pieces as awards for the Walter Scott Prize. Lund Humphries published a monograph on his work in 2013 to coincide with a retrospective exhibition at the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum in 2014.
If I were to identify a single thread that runs through my work it would be the influence of nature. That is the source to which I return for inspiration and fresh material for my work. I work in kiln-cast glass, using various moulding techniques to make the forms and moulds in which I cast my glass. – Colin Reid
Public Collections include:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Museums Wales; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh; Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain; Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Glass Art Fund, Strasbourg, France
