Leslie Hunter-Webb
Jewellery Designer / Glass Artist (Blue Mountains, NSW)

I am inspired by the drama of glass. My work is possibly influenced by extensive early travels through Asia and Europe. Through glass I can channel a natural eye for design and colour, capturing those influences in a luxurious and tactile form. I lampwork and kiln fire numerous types of glass with a special love of 'funky' Dichroic glass, with its wonderfully spectacular colours and dramatic reaction to firing. A New Zealander by birth but now settled in the Australian Blue Mountains where I am co-founder and current CEO of the Blue Mountains Artists Company.

I import most of my glass and all of my jewellery findings from around the world. I love the thrill of the chase in discovering and incorporating these findings into my work in much the same way as I loved shell and pebble hunting on the beaches of New Zealand as a child. Most of all I love the fact that my artwork brings beauty to other people's lives.

In early 2008 I was selected to participate in Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. This has led to my dichroic neckpieces being used for a major Harper's Bazaar Fashion Shoot for the issue due out in August 2008 and profiles in various media including Canvas Magazine.

Woodlands Studio which I share with my husband, Vic, is open to the public most weekends between 10am and 4pm. The address is 25 Nelson Avenue, Wentworth Falls in the beautiful Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

My work can also be found at LouMax Gallery in Katoomba and Bernd Horizons, Katoomba which is opening in August.

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