Anne Somers studied ceramic design at Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s. However, realising that it would be difficult to have a kiln in a top floor tenement flat, she moved to working in glass.
She started by learning to make copper foiled ornaments such as sun catchers, light shades, and mirrors. After moving to Hornby twenty years ago, she attended Dallam College in Milnthorpe and completed a course in leaded stained glass windows. Since then she discovered "fused" glass and has now returned to using a kiln!
She loves the bright colours of the glass and enjoys trying to recreate local landscapes and the flowers and wildlife in and around the Lune Valley and Forest of Bowland. The seaside scenes are based on the villages around her family home in Fife, Scotland as well as local seaside trips to Morecambe and Blackpool. Each piece is a unique memento of local life.
