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Artist Profile - Verity Anne Pulford

My recent work has been about communicating memories and emotions using symbols, photographic and drawn images combined. The way in which they are viewed is crucial. I want the viewer to feel they are seeing a private thing, to interact and to feel absorbed within that moment in time. I use different forms of light boxes to display the glass I make which range from jewellery boxes which hold a singular image, to large plan chests which hold several images in each drawer.

My ideas come from a desire to explore memory and the way in which we keep these feelings and moments inside us, like we would keep treasures we have collected in a box or a special place.

My most recent piece "Woven Memories" explores the memories and knowledge which are passed down through family. I use pattern as a metaphor for the complexities and rhythms of life, as in traditional stained glass. It also refers to women's traditional decorative crafts, the passing on of these skills as an heirloom and the spiritual relationship between mother and daughter.

My work is about translating the many parts of myself through imagery and colour; the way in which it is presented makes it sacred. It is not something I choose to do with ease, yet by making the showing of it so precious I am keeping the sacredness of those memories intact. It is something I feel compelled to do.

I also produce screen printed slumped bowls which I am selling in galleries including the Bluecoat Display Centre. The patterns I use come directly from my other work and I see them as an extension of it.

I do work to commission and produce screen printed photographic images on glass for personal gifts or to install within an architectural situation. I also make personal "jewellery boxes" which can have any image inside and are lit from within.

Email: verity_pulford@hotmail.com