Our featured Artist Member for May 2025 is Verity Pulford.
Verity’s work is inspired by the structures within nature. She is fascinated by light, the magic it creates in the natural environment and the way it moves through glass, reflects, and creates shadows. She uses a variety of warm and architectural glass techniques to create work for galleries across the UK, architectural commissions and exhibition.
Verity is a qualified teacher and has worked as artist in residence in hospitals, schools and community groups. She also teaches workshops from her home studio.
Verity’s project ‘Gardens of the Mind’ investigates the visual and physical correlation between structures and micro-structures within plant and human biology. This has been funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
I am interested in the complexity of plant life, the complicated structures and growth patterns. In my last project -Mutualism, I also looked at sea creatures and seashore plants. I am influenced by the way being in nature makes me feel. It is this blissful, expansive, and calm feeling which I am trying to communicate and share in my work.
Other inspirations are- light, the magical atmosphere it can create in the landscape but also the way it interacts with glass- shadows, reflections, the qualities of matt and shiny surfaces.
I am also interested and influenced by the cataloguing of nature- natural history artifacts, early cyanotypes, x-rays, microscopic images and botanical drawings.
I work in a studio and number of sheds which are in my garden. I live rurally in Denbighshire, North Wales and have a very isolated and old house high up on a mountain. My immediate environment influences me a lot, my garden and the surrounding countryside is full of ferns, lichens, mosses and wildflowers.
A collection of Verity’s work is available to purchase in the gallery and via our online store.