In 2014, after a long and demanding career in a world away from ceramics, as a parliamentary reporter and managing editor for Hansard at House of Lords, Glenice returned to her love of working with clay. This was not as a quiet hobby but as a complete creative reinvention.
After working and experimenting regularly at classes and in a wide range of workshops, she graduated from a full-time Intensive Ceramic Development course. She has never been interested in throwing but always drawn to the calming, creative process of hand-building abstract sculptural forms in stoneware.
Glenice works from her home studio in East Sussex and her practice focuses on modernist geometric sculpture, where she explores the power and directness of simplicity, and form rather than function. Her aim is to create sharp, eye-catching pieces, with a natural, tactile surface, inviting a quiet, sensory experience. Parent of two and grandparent to five, they remind her daily to stay curious, playful and experimental in the studio.
Glenice’s other passion is her study of art history and the move from realism to abstraction, and she has travelled widely visiting places and galleries of interest and inspiration. A visit to a modernist exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York drew her to the stark linear qualities of Kandinsky, who has greatly influenced the work she presents this year at Collect.