Kathleen James - Elfgift Glass

Round stained glass panel with an old fashioned yellow sun face with rays in multiple colours and clear glass etched with zodiac symbols. It's sitting in a shop window.

Zodiac panel now available in the shop at Milkhope Creatives, Blagdon, Northumbria.
35cm, stained and etched glass, copper foil and lead solder. #stainedglassart

A wishing well made of cardboard and paper, decorated with fairy lights. It's sitting on a grassy lawn in a churchyard.

My papier mache wishing well at #Lightwaves last Saturday night. The little kids had fun ringing the bell inside with a coin toss while they made a wish. This was the 3rd Lightwaves event at St Paul's Church.

#fiestawhitleybay #papermache #papiermache

A round piece of textured, amber-coloured glass with an old-fashioned face painted to look like a medieval wood block print.

Painted sun face, hot out of the kiln. This is the centrepiece of a zodiac panel.
##stainedglassart #zodiac

Wishing well nearly finished for #lightwaves @ #fiestawhitleybay on 7th Feb 2026 from 7pm at St Paul's Church.

My paper mache wishing well, nearly ready to decorate. #lightwaves #papiermache

A blocky and geometric-looking paper mannequin head made of white paper showing the pattern markings of lines and numbers. It sits on a cluttered table.

Started making a #papermache mannequin head from paper, cardboard and a LOT of sticky tape. Pattern by the amazing Jonni Good at ultimatepapermache.com

#papiermache

Photo of a paper mache wishing well in progress. The well is an octagonal shape and the two roof supports look a little like stylised reindeer antlers

Sneak preview of a big paper mache piece for an outdoor light festival in February. #lightwaves #fiestawb

Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg

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Watercolour flowers

Flower doodling #watercolours

Stained glass artwork of a woman taking a selfie

She's finished! I submitted this work "Know Yourself" to the National Glass Centre's final exhibition in Sunderland. It's a playful modern take in homage to the work of Alfons Mucha. Wish me luck for acceptance.

#stainedglassart #copperfoil #artnouveau

AI "art" sucks. It's environmentally damaging, it's theft, it's awful. Why is Bluesky showing it to me and how can I make it stop?
#artistsagainstai #saynotoai #aiwasteswater #aisucks

Pieces of cut stained glass and a pink ruler showing work in progress, 'Know yourself' (Nosce te ipsum), in the art nouveau style.

Stained glass work in progress, 'Know yourself' (Nosce te ipsum), in the art nouveau style.

A woman's face and hand holding a mobile phone painted on cut-out pieces of glass

Painted pieces for my latest work, ("Know Yourself") in the kiln for firing.

Blood Moon total lunar eclipse: How to see it in the UK A total lunar eclipse will be visible from parts of the UK on Sunday evening, weather permitting.

BBC News - How to see Sunday's 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse
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Fiesta Whitley Bay "Nurturing Nature". Sunday 21st September 2025 from 11 am to 3 pm. #freelivemusic

Using the glass saw means the shapes can be cut nearly intact. The inward curves are too sharp to be cut by hand, so usually I cut them into smaller shapes. That isn't necessarily a *bad* thing. The "3" shape has stress points & is more prone to cracking if the finished piece is handled roughly.

Blue opaque glass cut in the shape of the symbol for Om, on top of the paper pattern for the shapes.

Testing methods of keeping the lines from washing away when cutting with the glass saw. So far, acrylic marker pen covered in nail varnish stays on reasonably well. Sharpie marks and acrylic markers alone wash off nearly instantly. #stainedglassart

Fish 'n Chips flavour crisps (aka potato chips) in a vending machine

There will always be an England.

Brown cat in a sunbeam, lying on a red leather, old-fashioned footstool

Stained glass flowers and butterflies in opaque vases against a cloudy, grey sky

Young artist at the Fiesta

Having fun at the Fiesta in Whitley Bay. Here until 3 pm.

AI art is ruining the environment, and stealing artists' work and jobs. Don't encourage them. I don't care how cute or funny a meme is. AI sucks.

I would probably reply "chips" and wait for your return volley.

Cardboard box packed with stained glass flowers

Glass flower table decorations, all boxed up for my friend's wedding.

Three small individual sculptures: stained glass and glass nugget flowers on wires in tubes covered with paper mache. The tubes sit on top of round, glazed terracotta plinths

#stainedglass and #ceramics meets #papermache ... that's definitely #mixedmedia

Abstract flower in the art nouveau style, made of glass with 3 yellow petals, 2 green leaves and an amber glass centre. The edges of the glass pieces are wrapped in copper foil tape.

Scrappy art nouveau-style flower, all foiled up and ready to solder. #stainedglass

A group of 7 stained glass flowers on white terrycloth

Scrappy flowers from #stainedglass leftovers

Five seagulls on a windowsill in a weathered stone building.

Five gulls, North Shields