About

Iris Houghton creates art glass using a method known as ‘painting with light’. Most of the work begins with two clear pieces of glass cut to the size and shape of the finished piece. These are then worked on using frits, metals, dichroics and other materials.

Many pieces have a fine art bias due to Iris’s fine art background. The pieces are worked on and fused in the studio kiln at temperatures up to 800° Celsius. Iris then reworks them until she is happy with the results, which may involve several firings. In the final stage of the process, the piece is placed over a mould and put back into the kiln to soften and ‘slump’ into the desired shape.

Events 2024

Please find below a list of events that I will be attending in 2024.

I will be adding more as and when they are booked.

I am looking forward to seeing my existing customers again and meeting new ones.

Art at Etal – 12th June. Etal Village Hall, 10:30-4pm. Free entry.

Summer Fair, Slaley Hall Hotel NE47 0BX – 16th June. 11am-3pm. Free entry.

Belford Arts Festival – 13th & 14th July. 10am – 5pm.

Brancepeth Castle – 26th,27th & 28th July. Brancepeth Castle, Durham DH7 8DF  

Cartmel Show-  7th August,   Cartmel Showground, Cartmel , Cumbria.(P)

The Glendale Show – 26th August,  Glendale Showground, Wooler, Northumberland.

Alwinton Border Shepherd’s Show – 12th October, Alwinton, Northumberland. NE65 7BQ.

Art at the Hindmarsh –  28th & 29th October 10-4pm, Hindmarsh Hall, Alnmouth. (P)

The Joy of Christmas – Linden Hall Hotel,  2nd & 3rd November, 10 till 4pm, Longhorsley, NE65 8XF 

Crafts in the Pen – 16th & 17th November – Skipton Auction Mart, Gargrave Road, BD23 1UD.

Brancepeth  Castle Christmas Fair – 22, 23rd & 25th  November, Brancepeth Castle, Durham, DH7 8DF

Durham Christmas Festival –    6th,7th & 8th December,    Palace Green Durham.  (P)

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