Studio Orme • Glass

My latest creation – a Victoriana-inspired moth lamp, celebrating some of the UK’s most beautiful moths: the Emperor, Scarlet Tiger, Light Crimson Underwing, and Speckled Yellow. The background carries a subtle texture drawn from the night sky and the delicate markings of the Peppered Moth. 🌛 This one was such a joy to make – lampshades take a huge amount of care and detail, but seeing it all come together is incredibly rewarding. If it’s calling you, send me a DM, it is reluctantly for sale… ☺️ More lamps are on the horizon… ✨ I’m always interested in hearing about your vision and ideas for bespoke lamps too!  And if you're curious about the process of making the lamp I'll be posting a reel over the next few days ⚒️

Definitely not a usual morning in the studio! Excited to share these photographs taken a few weeks ago by @jasonevansfoto , wearing @kikokostadinov utility wear by @asics ! Jason photographed makers across the country for this campaign — people who work with their hands. You can see more over at @jasonevansfoto and @kikokostadinov . The new collection drops this Thursday 👀 Very happy that my trusty @kilncare Hobby Fuser got its own special fashion moment too 🔥 Production by @roannetoosy  ✨

‘Medieval Relics’ opens today! Thrilled to share my second new work ‘The Pigeon’s Chapel’ (38 x 35 x 19cm) ~ a slightly surreal sculpture that I’m pretty excited about ⛪ This piece began as a desire to explore functional art through the creation of lamps. It started with the doors, and slowly a mini chapel emerged, inspired by my research into Pugin and a broader fascination with Medieval architecture. I’m thinking about the quiet decay of buildings that feel forgotten or overgrown — where nature and time begin to reclaim the sacred. Moss creeping in, pigeons nesting in the rafters. Not totally sure what it all means yet, but I love where it’s taken me. More photos soon, including some process shots 🕯️🕊️ Thanks to my Dad, Chris, for designing and building the perfect stepped wooden base for the lamp which totally elevates it 💡 Medieval Relics, curated by @venetiahiggins runs at @thegalleryatgreenandstone from today until Saturday 21st June.

Introducing... 🪱The Little Worm Mirror🪱 Now available, made to order, in my online shop! (🖇️link in bio) A playful, medieval inspired mirror featuring a winding wriggly creature! The worm is hand painted and kiln fired using traditional stained glass techniques, then leaded together with cut mirror pieces and soldered by hand. 20 x 20cm stained glass mirror, handmade by me in my Margate studio. Currently only shipping within the UK. Delivery is with Royal Mail on a Tracked 48 service, or free collection from my Margate studio 📦 (If you're interested in International shipping, please get in touch! ✈️)

Having a little look back at some mirrors I’ve made over the past few years ✨ From worms to devils to William Morris–inspired leaves… If you’re interested in commissioning something bespoke, please get in touch 💌

A little sneaky peek of something I've been working on in between commissions... ✨ more soon...!

Excited to share some recent fabrication work for Aliaskar Abarkas {@aliaskar______abarkas }, currently on show at YDP {@ydp_space } as part of Living, Rehearsing… Chapter 3: Reverberance. For this piece, Aliaskar wanted to push the work in a more sculptural direction. The central panel is built from a two-layer fused base, with additional one- and two-layer pieces tack fused on top in selected areas so certain elements subtly stand proud. I love the effect this creates! It’s not immediately obvious from the front, but as you move around the piece the different levels start to reveal themselves. I think the way Aliaskar framed and hung it works beautifully in the space: a slick silver frame with wires that hold and suspend the glass in place.

Experimenting with some new sculptural ideas, letting the lead extend beyond the usual border of the glass. Interesting to see what happens when the leadwork starts to break away from the frame and become more spatial… 🥀 I’ve been dreaming up a series of stained glass pieces in this style, so I thought I’d test the idea out on a mirror first to see if it translated from the sketch book to the real world! (Also I’ll take any excuse to make a distorting diamond mirror 🪞)

Delighted to share this recent fabrication work for Charlotte Edey [@edey_ ]! Her show ‘Corner/Fold’ is currently on show at James Cohan, NY. ‘Corner/Fold features three floor-based stained glass sculptures reminiscent of wishing wells. Viewers encounter these forms by peering down into their softly uplit interiors in a childlike way. The body of work is inspired by “A Little Fable”, Franz Kafka’s 1920s absurdist tale of a cat and mouse in an increasingly shrinking space, the bodily experience of bending and compressing oneself to descend into a visual field plays with Edey’s interest in our ever-changing sense of location, orientation, and disorientation. Inside these wells, Edey has translated her visual language of knots, loops, and orbs into mesmeric stained glass, illuminated from below.’ Really loved fabricating the glass for these works, they are so intricate! I love how Charlotte has made the stained glass into something so sculptural and immersive. The whole exhibition looks so dreamy! Artwork photos by Greg Carideo [@g_rids ], installation photo by Dan Bradica

Excited to share this fabrication work from the end of last year for artist Aliaskar Abarkas! Presented at Scuola Piccola Zattere, the exhibition explores sound composition and notation, transcribed and carved into sculptural form. The fused and stained glass works were translated from Aliaskar’s detailed designs, bringing sound into material presence. @aliaskar______abarkas @scuolapiccolazattere 📸 Matteo De Mayda

Recent(ish) fabrication work for Lindsey Mendick (@lindseymendick )! These were really fun to make - lots of layers of delicate painting then the brief was to make them look worn and smashed 🏠 ‘Lindsey Mendick presents Growing Pains, a new site-specific installation comprising ceramic sculptures, stained glass, office furniture and a film, set in an abandoned estate agent’s office. Referencing her teenage years, Mendick transforms the space into a haunting, immersive experience that explores the uncertainty, awkwardness, and societal expectations surrounding adolescence. The work will be shown at 15 Reform Street, Dundee. Mendick, who grew up in north London, recalls the unspoken social hierarchies that shaped her upbringing. Using the analogy of an estate agency, the artist reflects on how these businesses relentlessly tout aspirational lifestyles and the insidious feeling that the grass is always greener.’ Lindsey Mendick: Growing Pains, Jupiter+ Dundee, on until December 21st, Reform St Dundee. Installation photographs: Lindsey Mendick, Growing Pains, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and JUPITER+, Dundee. Photography by Ruth Clark.

‘The Pigeon’s Lychgate’, now showing in 'Pocket Forests' at LIMBO Project Space. While searching for a found object to transform, Ned stumbled across a small handmade Lychgate in Scotts, Margate. Traditionally, a Lychgate or resurrection gate is found at the entrance to an English churchyard, marking the threshold between the secular and the sacred. It provided a shelter for coffins and pallbearers before a burial. “Lych” means corpse in Old English,  a passage for both body and spirit. It’s mostly used as an adjective in certain names such as the lych owl, or screech owl, named because its cry was a portent of death. This work combines the symbolism of the Lychgate with elements of the screech owl, its textured feathers and piercing eyes, poised in the space between worlds. And, perched above, a quiet little pigeon keeps watch. 🌳 ‘Pocket Forests’ exhibition is open today 11–5, and next Fri–Sun 11–5. I’ll be invigilating on Friday, come say hello!