EXHIBITIONS

'Whispers From Nature': Glass Painting by Surinder Warboys

5th April - 29th November 2025

“Following purposeful steps to unfold an innate order, Surinder Warboys paints a hidden image of nature.” - Oksana Kondratyeva

Whispers From Nature
‘Whispers from Nature’ brings together glass artworks made by artist Surinder Warboys using her unique Muller technique. In these remarkable works Warboys uses the Muller, a tool used for grinding and mixing glass paint, as a mark-making tool. In this series of works dendritic marks and serendipitous patterns have been created through the action of the muller and the artist's pressure and motion upon this tool, sometimes over many hours. The resulting images created through these marks seem to reference the interior of bodies, their map of veins and capillaries, while simultaneously suggesting the cartography of terrain. Circular, enclosed forms can be indicative of a womb or a nest while also evoking an ammonite’s spiral and the swirl of the Milky Way. These works are enigmatic, not settling to a single representation, instead overlaying imagery suggestive of biology, geology and cosmology within the boundaries of a single glass pane.

Surinder Warboys is a Fine Art graduate, member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters and Contemporary Glass Society. She founded her architectural stained glass studio, My Glass Room, in Suffolk in 1990, where she designs and makes architectural glass and undertakes conservation and restoration work. Warboys has completed commissions for private houses and public buildings, including churches, schools and hospitals. Her work as a Conservator and Restorer of stained glass has been approved by English Heritage. She has taught, lectured and delivered workshops in the UK and India. Alongside work for My Glass Room, Warboys pursues her experimental art practice. She has exhibited artwork throughout the UK and has twice been selected for the British Glass Biennialle.

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