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Giles Bettison Author: Margot Osborne

ISBN: 9781743053812 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 160 Published: 8 September 2015 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 28.0 x 23.5 Description: Giles Bettison's fascination with creating complex chromatic patterns in glass is inspired by sources in the visible world, and driven by a desire to reach out and engage the viewer's perception of beauty at an intuitive sensory level. He has said, 'Almost always, in everything, I aim for beauty and visual intrigue'. His contemporary reinvention of the ancient technique of murrine glass as a vehicle for his distinctive creative language has earned him international acclaim. In murrine Giles Bettison found an abstract glass language in which he could visualise his perceptions of beauty in everyday life.

Author Margot Osborne has worked in close collaboration with the artist to draw out his underlying aesthetic philosophy and trace the evolution of his use of murrine glass over the past two decades. In so doing she makes connections between his approach to pattern, and contemporary scientific approaches to understanding how the mind perceives colour, pattern and complexity.

Giles Bettison burst onto the international glass arena in the mid 1990s as a young glass artist, newly emerged from the famed glass program...

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