Velveteen by Robert Ryan

A useful tool to help you co-ordinate with your colour scheme. Click away and have fun!

£336.00

Due to postal restrictions, it is available for collection from the gallery only, and cannot be delivered by post.

Robert Ryan originally started out his career as a metal worker. His first job in a Clyde shipyard made him question his path in life, thinking to himself, on his first day on the job “This is not for me.” He confesses he had no interest from day one and says in his own words, that he was the worst metal worker on the Clyde! Moving on from metal work, he started a business buying and selling cars, improving them, and spray painting. He did this for around twenty years, before opening a business with his brother Martin.

Robert’s new business was a step closer to his creative nature, designing, making and selling mirrors with his brother, and led to a successful 15 years, supplying large jewellers and gift shops with mirrors and frames. After his brother passed away, he started to work on small decorative metal panels, stepping even closer to the work he produces now. Robert travelled to Australia on many occasions, and has lived there for up to a couple of years at a time. Travelling there led him through many colourful places such as Thailand and Bali, which is reflected in his work. When living in Australia Robert worked for a special effects company, which gave him opportunities and ideas to try out new and different types of decorative work, eventually leading to his glass ‘canvases’. His jewel-like glass works have been an amalgamation of travels, experiences and memories.

Each piece is totally unique, with Robert painstakingly applying copper wires, crushed gemstones and metal pieces into each piece of glass. He calls them “jewellery for the walls”!