Bob Crooks is one of Britain’s leading glassmakers. Renowned for the high quality, skilfully executed dynamic forms and surfaces he has been producing over the last twelve years. Continuously thinking of original and challenging ideas. His work has been exhibited at International level and in noted exhibitions in Italy, China, Scandinavia, Australia and the USA, alongside many exhibitions at home in the UK.

Each piece is designed, handmade and finished by Bob. No moulds are used to create the forms or surfaces achieved.

His pieces are inspired by Geometry, Architecture, the Natural and Man-made worlds we live in as well as the qualities and capabilities of the glass itself. Throughout his wide variety of the work, Bob exploits the many properties of the material through refraction or reflection; sharpness or softness, transparency or opacity, working with its fluidity and ‘freezing’ it as the desired form is realised.

Within his range of production items, Bob has consciously developed work that is, because of the nature of different applications, a one-off as it’s impossible to make two pieces identical.

The unique pieces have now escalated in size, creating a more dramatic statement. Although large scale, these pieces include intricacies which demand closer inspection. The resultant objects demonstrate a masterly love of the material with attention to fine detail.