P. Armitage is a Glass Fusion Artist and a Painter.
She also leads Creative Way courses.
P. Armitage attended a Fine Arts Foundation course
at
Abingdon College in 1994, followed by two years of
glass classes with well known Oxford Glass Artist
Vital Peeters. Initially she studied stained glass,
later moving on to glass fusion. She uses the
vibrant colours of Bull's Eye Glass to create collages
on plates, bowls and decorative pieces, smooth
curved objects reminiscent of waves enveloping
splashes of colour and geometric designs. She also
makes jewellery.
Criticism:
We take light, as we do the oxygen we breathe, for
granted but both are fundamental to our being
and life. We tend
not to dwell upon it. For a
follower of the bible everything started with the
words, "And God said, let there be light: and there
was light." (Genesis
1:3). For the scientist the
same event, minus the theological component the
Big Bang. Armitage's simple glass pieces
capture and reflect the
simple truth on a smaller,
transportable scale.
Graham Dane, June 2014
