Leadlight Studio

Leadlight Studio Charlotte Savill Bristol
Glass Artist
www.leadlightstudio.co.uk
2024 British Glass Bienale
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A forced few days off.. all fine. Will be back to my admin at the end of the week, please bear with me!
10/09/2026

A forced few days off.. all fine.
Will be back to my admin at the end of the week, please bear with me!

Catching the rays... Thank you, , for these beautiful photos of your Wild Women piece. The refractions from glass have a...
07/09/2026

Catching the rays...
Thank you, , for these beautiful photos of your Wild Women piece.
The refractions from glass have always fascinated me, and I am constantly trying to portray that feeling and fluidity of being under water in my work.
Last week at the Festival of Glass, I attended a talk by artist that blew my mind! I learnt a new scientific word and explanation for the thing that has fascinated me and actually made me choose glass as a medium in the first place. I am a firm believer in Blue Mind Theory and Light Bathing, so the fact that there is actually a scientific explanation as well as physical one was a total joy to discover!
I learnt the word CAUSTICS!
Refraction is the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another, whereas caustics are the bright, dancing patterns of concentrated light created when those refracted or reflected rays focus together. There are different types of caustics, but water caustics are in constant motion as the water is always moving. These focused lines of light shift and dance across the bottoms of pools, lakes, or rocks.
It's so utterly wholesome and is another piece to my creative puzzle! More playing with glass,light, and pattern will commence immediately!




I've been going through an utter slump recently. Not just in life, but with work and particularly social media. It's par...
05/09/2026

I've been going through an utter slump recently. Not just in life, but with work and particularly social media. It's part of the job but sometimes it's exhausting and draining and soul destroying.
Today I looked right back at the start of my posts. It was actually a really lovely thing to do. I found work that I never completed, techniques I have shelved, and images that continue to inspire me.
All documented on my little feed.
And I actually feel better, reassured, and inspired.
This was from a series of photos I took at the National History Museum in Oxford.
A juxtaposition of order and chaos, of nature and construction. I'll leave it here so that in 5 years I can find it again... and it might drag me out of another slump funk.... 🙃

20/08/2026

The discovery of treasures hidden unfolds.
I am midway in clearing my lovely friend and next-door neighbour Sandra's house as she relocates to a carehome, thankfully only 5 minutes up the road.
She has no family around apart from us and a few other neighbours. She was a very creative woman and an avid collector of unusual and beautiful objects. I could literally have a whole other account showing what I have found. But I'll keep it related to things that fit with the Leadlight Studio vibe as it could go rogue... 🤣
Today, I found some laboradite rocks. This is just one of them. To me, it looks like a tiny underwater world, like being right on the bottom of the ocean looking up.
It's totally mesmerising, almost looks fake or like AI, but it's a real natural (half polished) rock!.
I might have to recreate it into a giant stained glass panel..



I made myself a new dipping pen out of a broken dangley thing from Bristol Blue Glass and a vintage optrex eyebath!
19/08/2026

I made myself a new dipping pen out of a broken dangley thing from Bristol Blue Glass and a vintage optrex eyebath!


15/08/2026

New obsession... 🤣


15/08/2026

Three years ago!!
My lovely Lido Lady was already flying..
The Lido Collection was in my head (on paper and on the tip of my creative journey), and then I applied to go on the telly)
II will be forever grateful for for her general loveliness and support and for choosing me and having faith in me and my products. I now have an extra strange tv family going on in the background, and I love them.
It really was like sticking a rocket up my arse. I have kearnt so many lessons in risk-taking and goal setting.
If there's something you have been putting off, dont overthink it, crack on!.
Apply for it
(nothing bad will happen.. apart from your ego, but I'm here for you...🤣)
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14/08/2026

Took my bestie outside to play in the shadows with some of my newly acquired objects. This is one of my absolute favourite pieces I have ever made. The sea fans and coral were found in the clearing of my neighbours house. Obviously, these objects should have been left where they were. Sandea travelled a lot and collected all sorts of treasures on her way. They are so incredibly inspiring for me personally. I've taken a load of close-up macro photos that I will share. They will become new designs at some point, probably on clear glass like this piece.




I'm adding another one of my most popular designs from my The Lido Collection. This is Amelie. She will join Daphne. Thi...
13/08/2026

I'm adding another one of my most popular designs from my The Lido Collection.
This is Amelie. She will join Daphne.
This pattern is recreated from a tiny section of a border spotted on one of my historial stained glass window wanderings.
The last 3 were snapped up after my last post, so I've made 3 more! I think this will be the way I will be working from now on, as the big Lido Collection drops take too long.
I'll be adding her in the next couple of days. If you don't manage to get one, she will take approximately 6-8 weeks to make as fit them in around my other work. Hope you like her!

She is £95 (plus £7 p&p)





11/08/2026

I am thrilled to have been asked by my favourite glass shop to collaborate with them and in these new editions of Fusers Reserve Glass. Look at these beauties that I have received, I can't wait to get creating.
What would you make?!

You can find this new Oceanside COE96 on the Creative Glass Guild website...

1) Whispering Lotus FR94-D
2) Ember FR97-D
3) Witching Hour FR94-D
4) Creamsicle FR98-D





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