Effie Burns

Big Mushroom

Gilded with 23.5 carat gold.

Foraged in Robin Hood’s Bay

£425

Effie Burns lives and works in Whitby, foraging things on walks along the cliff paths, through parks and woodlands. Effie likes to work seasonally to create small collections of unique botanical sculptures throughout the year: ‘As the seasons unfold, I find myself continually collecting things. I enjoy working with the alchemic and ancient properties of glass to distil nature into something else and to capture a moment in time’.

Effie casts directly from the mushrooms she finds, in a process known as ‘burn out’ or ‘lost organic casting’. Though the mushrooms disintegrate into ash, at times this leaves mineral residue, where the original is imprinted within the glass.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally. From a collection of cast glass mushrooms in the Armitt Museum to a casket of botanical treasures in a medieval castle in Bavaria.

This work is available through Own Art

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