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This dictionary is aimed at people who work with glass whether they are professional, amateur, glassblower, etcher, engraver, stained glass artist or industrial glass worker. It aims to cover technical and artistic aspects of working with glass.
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Charles Bray has gathered together the various aspects of glass technology and practice in the only reference available of its kind. This second edition is entirely redesigned, with all new illustrations and updated entries to discuss new technologies and techniques. Aimed at all people who work with glass, whether professional, amateur, teacher or student, glassblower, etcher, engraver, stained glass artist, or industrial glass worker, A Dictionary of Glass covers both technical and artistic aspects of working with glass in a practical, easily referenced format. The book is arranged as a lexicon of words and phrases, covering technical terms, materials, equipment, processes, and practices. Some of the entries offer succinct definitions; others are detailed articles that illuminate the subject in greater depth, many illustrated by photographs and diagrams. Also included are detailed appendices listing suppliers, schools providing glass courses, museums with important glass collections, and a useful bibliography.
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He was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. He was brought up, an only child, in a two-up-two-down terraced house, in Salford, where his father worked as a lorry driver. A strong artistic influence came through his mother, who was musical and his maternal great-grandfather, a stonemason.
He later attended Openshaw Technical College and studied to belong to the Society of Designer Craftsmen. After the end of the war, he attended Freckleton Teacher training college, under the Emergency Teacher Training Scheme, set up after the implementation of the Education Acting 1944.
He failed the scholarship exam for Grammar school, but became top of his secondary school, Halton Bank School, by the age of 13. He began employment with a firm of church furnishers. When he turned 18, Charles Bray joined the Royal Navy, at the start of World World War II, and served on HMS Rodney and HMS Diomede.
He taught for two years in Manchester, specialising in music, woodwork and metalwork and then entered Goldsmiths College to study painting and sculpture.
Upon returning to teach at Manchester, Charles Bray then moved to Cumberland (Cumbria) in 1955, to teach art at Eden School, Carlisle. In 1962, Charles Bray worked at Sunderland Teacher Training College, and then became Head of Ceramic Art at Sunderland College of Artist
In 1976, he attended the Hot Glass Conference at the Royal College of Art which proved a major watershed in the development of Studio Glass in England. Subsequently, he was instrumental in setting up British Artists in Glass (now the Contemporary Glass Society ) to promote and support the work of glass artists in the United Kingdom. Charles Bray drew influence from form and line observed from naval objects, and by the artists Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore.
This is evident in his prolific paintings and drawings.
Later influences from the Cumbria landscape, and rock strata, were instrumental in a change of artistic direction. His glass work demonstrates this influence. Charles Bray’s glass work can be classed in two groups.
The first consists of blown bowls, etched with shapes reflecting landscape influences.
Secondly, nature plays a strong influence in his glass sculpture, much of which is experimental and varied. He continued to produce and exhibit glass until his death in July 2012.
Charles Bray has exhibited in Britain, Europe and the United States. Private collectors of his work include Margrethe II of Denmark, and ex-king Constantine II of Greece.
His work is in a number of public collections some of which are: Turner Museum of Glass, Sheffield.
Musee du Verre, Sars Poteries. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. Salford City Art Gallery, Salford.
Crystalex, Novy Bor, Czechoslovakia.
Corning Museum of Glass, New New York Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Ulster Museum, Belfast.
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Leading signalman Royal Navy, 1940-1946. Fellow Society Glass Technology, Royal Society Arts.
Married Margaret Ingram, December 26, 1954. Children: David, Stephen, Simon, Andrew.
