Kiln Creations are glass projects made by being fired in a kiln. We have had our kiln since 2003 and continue to experiment with sand castings, raked glass, pot and wire melts to create unique jewellery , art pieces and functional pieces. Look for combinations of wood and fused glass coming soon.
This is a picture of the wire melt the next day, after the kiln has cooled down so that I can open the lid. The piece is taken out and any kiln wash is cleaned off back. Now I have to decide if I want to make this a complete circle or make a wooden…
It a cold, snowy and freezing rain day here in Kingston. So I decided to do a wire melt in the kiln. special wire is stretched across some fire bricks and the fusing glass of various shapes colours and seizes are added. most of the glass is clear with some colours. The kiln will eventually…
Ron created this ” Surfboard in Coral ” while I was on a cruise snorkelling and looking at coral ( No surfing though) . He made the surfboard by doing a wire melt in the kiln. In this case he used 2500g of clear and bits of colour, melted through the wiremesh you see on the…
This dynamic orange and red swirly ripple bowl is about 10 inches in diameter. As a piece of art , a floating candle holder or a really jazzy salad bowl, it demands attention
The purple and turquoise swirls on this 14 inch long narrow shallow plate make you think of the ocean. It works great for pickles, cheese and crackers or treats and looks just as good with three pillar candles.
The blue and yellow Atlantis strip glass has been placed in oppasite directions to create a basketweave patterm. This 11 inch square dish makes a great centre piece with three different sized pillar candles.
This tiny 5 inch plate was made with 72 small squares of coloured glass fused to a piece of clear. Its sunshiny look makes a great butter dish, soap dish or candy dish.
The Blue , yellow and striped glass are put together in the traditional rail fences quilt pattern. The 8 inch dish looks great when put on a matching quilted mat.
This amazing pendant looks like a piece of stone. It is made by cutting a piece of white glass and a piece of clear glass into an oval and putting the two together, then piling amber crushed glass on top of a few small pieces of dichroic. It is then put in the kiln and…
The circular black glass pendant is made of two layers of black glass cut into a circle . White and coloured crushed glass called frit is piled over small pieces of dichroic on the circles. The glass is melted at very high temperatures resulting in the ground glass to melt away from the middle. Each…
The maple leaf pendant is about 4 cm square. It is made by fusing a piece of black glass with a piece of clear with a punched out leaf of “dichroic slide”. The dichroic is very thin layers of metal oxides that are put onto a piece of shiny paper. After punching out the design,…
Wire melt jewellry is made by arranging glass on top of a piece of ” chicken wire” on a stand in the kiln. The glass melts at very high temperatures down through the little squares, puddling on the floor of the kiln. After 24 hours when the glass has cooled it is cut into jewellry…
Since Ann is a quilter as well as a glass artist, the quilting designs often migrate into the glasswork. This pattern is known as ” Box in a Box. Five individual pieces of coloured glass are cut then placed on a piece of clear glass. The pieces are fused in the kiln.The finished pendant is…
The pot melt pendant is made by putting clear and coloured glass in a very small clay pot on a stand in the kiln. The kiln is slowly heated to 1760 degrees until the glass drips down through the hole in the flower pot making a small circular puddle on the floor of the kiln. This…
This special wire melt was creaatd in our kiln by heating 1250 grams of glass to 1760 degrees and having the glass dribble through the squares in some wire mess. The wire and glass rest on fire bricks about 8″ above the kiln floor. It usually takes about 12 hours until all the glass has…
This very unique piece of glass is created in our kiln at 1760 degrees. The 1250 grams of glass are stacked on some wire and placed in the kiln about 8″ off the kiln floor. When the glass melts at this high temperature it flows between the wire squares and creates amazing patterns as it…