Bob Crooks

Bob is one of Britain’s most highly recognised leading glassmakers. Renouned for the high quality, skilfully executed dynamic forms and surfaces he has been producing over the last twelve years. Continuously thinking of original and challanging iseas his work has been exhibited at international level and in noted exhibitions in Italy, China, Scandinavia, Australia and the USA, as well as in many exhibitions in the UK.

Each piece is designed, handmade and finished by Bob. No moulds are used to create the forms or surfaces achieved.

The pieces are inspired by geometry, architecture, the natural and man-made worlds we live in, as well as the qualities and capabilities of the glass itself. Throughout the variety of the work, Bob exploits the many properties of the material through refraction or reflection; sharpness or softness, transparency or opacity, working with its fluidity and ‘freezing’ it as the desired form is realised. Within the range of production work made, Bob has consciously developed work that is, because of the nature of different applications, a one-off piece. Each piece demonstrates a masterly love of the material with great attentiont to detail in theexecution.