All images © Samantha Yates, shared with permission
From her workshop in Shipley, West Yorkshire, artist crafts long-stemmed botanicals in colorful stained glass. She draws on her background in horticulture to shape the curved metallic borders and gleaming petals and leaves. “I love the limits with the copper foil technique (no painting, no fusing), the challenge of trying to recreate 3D with 2D, (and) asking myself what are the essential qualities of that plant, that flower, that leaf? Is it color, shape, the stem outline?” she explains.
Casting vibrant shadows, the stylized pieces are based on florals the artist picks from her garden or around her home—see examples on —and are paired to evoke moods similar to those of fresh bouquets, “I love light, the transparency of glass, the paper-thin quality of petals, light through leaves,” she says.
See more of Yates’s delicate botanicals and shop individual stems and bouquets on . (via )
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