Gregory Warren Wilson’s brilliantly colourful and innovative work in glass plays with the translucent nature of the material. Each piece is conceived on multiple layers – sometimes as many as six – and these layers allow light to interact with the glass spatially, penetrating the depths within each frame. The designs he makes sparkle and scintillate, and they appear to move as you look at them.
Warren Wilson’s work is, in part, sculptural. Each piece can only exist in three dimensions, and the glass interacts with the play of light spatially. His work invites the eye to exult in pure colour, and also to investigate the mysterious depths of the space that the designs inhabit within their bespoke frames.
Having lived for many years in Italy and Australia, light is crucial to his work as an artist. The tesserae he uses are hand-cut in Murano, and the irregularity of each unique piece enlivens the surface of his work, refracting light in ways that are eye-catching and unpredictable. Each of his designs is made with great precision so that the individual tesserae reflect and refract light in an extraordinary variety of ways.
Warren Wilson is a prize-winning poet. He has published five collections and was awarded an Arts Council Grant in 2008. A number of his glass designs take as their starting point a fragment of poetry. Over time, his visual response develops into a ‘correlative’, resulting in a glasswork that exists in its own right, while alluding, albeit obliquely, to the original literary source.
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Dawn at San Clemente (Venice by Night) >
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Hand-cut layered and dichroic glass
H 21 x W 21 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-COL-239

Prometheus Descends With Fire For Mankind >
Hand-cut glass with gold glass
H 122 x W 45 x D 5 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-COL-238
POA
One Late Rose and the Age of Miracles Hasn’t Passed >
Hand-cut layered glass with gold glass
H 30 x W 30 x D 7 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-COL-235
£2,400
Venice by Night Series
Hand-cut layered glass
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-COL-240
£1,900
Venice by Night Series
Hand-cut layered glass with gold leaf
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-242
£1,900
Evening Begins with an Aperol >
Hand-cut glass with gold glass
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
2023
Ref. GWW-COL-236
£1,900
All Life is Played Out Under the Orange Awning >
Hand-cut layered glass
H 21 x L 21 x W 8 cm
Ref. GWW-COL-233
£1,900
Hand-cut Venetian mosaic glass, bespoke frame
H 62 x W 53 x D 8 cm
Ref. GWW-COL-226
£5,400
Ikon, Installation of nine works >
Installation of nine individual works
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5 each
Available as an installation (group of nine at £4,500) or individually at £550 each
Ref. GWW-POB-221
£4,500
New Work
Sunset in the Orangery with Gustav Klimt >
Ikon series
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5cm
Ref. GWW-POB-221C
£550
New Work
First Constellation at Twilight >
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Ikon series
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5 cm
Ref. GWW-POB-221D
New Work
When Every Drop of Rain’s a Jewel >
Ikon series
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5cm
Ref. GWW-POB-221F
£550
New Work
On Seeing the World in a Blade of Grass >
Ikon series
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5cm
Ref. GWW-POB-221H
£550
New Work
Ikon series
H 14 x L 14 x D 3.5 each
Ref. GWW-POB-221I
£550

The Inclination of the Moon Is All It Takes to Turn the Tide >
Dark green and turquoise glass, with one silvered and lacquered glass ‘moon’; limed and waxed oak frame
H 40 x W 32 cm
Ref. GWW-POB-224
£4,200
Hand-cut layered glass bespoke frame
H 33 x W 42 x D 8 cm
Ref. GWW-SEL-225
£4,200
Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness >
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Hand-cut layered glass bespoke frame
H 33 x W 42 x D 8 cm
Ref. GWW-SG-222
Venice by Day : Ice at First Light >
Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-221
£1,900
Venice by Day : Rainy Outlook, St. Valentine’s Day >
Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-220
£1,900
Venice by Night : The Secret of Making Aventurine >
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Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 19 x W 19 cm
Ref. GWW-COL-228
Venice by Day: After Torrential Rain Even the Gutters Run Gold >
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Hand-cut layered glass, Venetian gold leaf, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 8 cm
Ref. GWW349

The Gods of Molten Glass Look Down on Us and Smile >
Poured Venetian glass, mounted on black high-gloss plinth
H 46 x W 46 X D 3.5
Ref. GWW-SEL-221 – GWW-SEL-223
POA
Peace Comes Dropping Slow From the Veils of the Morning >
Hand-cut Venetian mosaic glass, bespoke metal frame
H 123 x W 46.5 x D 7.5 cm
2022
Ref. GWW-COL-223
POA
Venice by Night : On First Looking through Peggy Guggenheim’s Spectacles >
Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Available
Ref. GWW-Jde-219
£1,900
Venice by Night : Sometimes Only a Maraschino Cherry Will Do >
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Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-215
Venice by Night : Limoncello on the Lido >
Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-214
£1,900
Venice by Night : Dawn at the Rialto >
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Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-216
Venice by Night : Light-change before an Electrical Storm >
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Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 7 cm
Ref. GWW-Jde-217
Hand-cut layered glass with bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x 7 cm
Ref. GWW-COL-227
£1,900
Venice by Night : A Moon to Make the Mermaids Sing >
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2021
Bespoke silvered glass, and hand-cut layered glass
H 19 x L 19 cm
Ref. GWW352
Venice by Night : Night Gondola >
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Hand-cut layered glass, Venetian gold leaf, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW347
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Hand-cut layered glass, Venetian gold leaf, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 10 cm
Ref. GWW348
Four Minutes Thirty-three Seconds >
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Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW332
Venice by Night : Pistachio Ice Cream on the Zattere >
Hand-cut layered glass, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 8 cm
Ref. GWW350
£1,900
‘The sea poured brilliant iris on the glistening blue’ >
Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
This mosaic relates closely to one of five stanzas of Wallace Stevens’ celebrated poem, Sea Surface Full of Clouds, which inspired Gregory Warren Wilson to make this piece. The mosaic has been given a title that is drawn from stanza I.
Ref. GWW323
£1,200
‘At breakfast jelly yellow streaked the deck’ >
Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
This mosaic relates closely to one of five stanzas of Wallace Stevens’ celebrated poem, Sea Surface Full of Clouds, which inspired Gregory Warren Wilson to make this piece. The mosaic has been given a title that is drawn from stanza II.
Ref. GWW324
£1,200
‘Silver petals of white blooms unfolding in the water’ >
Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
This mosaic relates closely to one of five stanzas of Wallace Stevens’ celebrated poem, Sea Surface Full of Clouds, which inspired Gregory Warren Wilson to make this piece. The mosaic has been given a title that is drawn from stanza III.
Ref. GWW325
£1,200
‘A mallow morning dozed upon the deck’ >
Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
This mosaic relates closely to one of five stanzas of Wallace Stevens’ celebrated poem, Sea Surface Full of Clouds, which inspired Gregory Warren Wilson to make this piece. The mosaic has been given a title that is drawn from stanza IV.
Ref. GWW326
£1,200
Mosaic, hand-cut Murano glass, bespoke frame
H 30 x W 25.5 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW314
£1,600
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba >
Hand-cut Murano glass art, framed
H 26 x W 30 x D 6 cm
GWW313
£1,600
Nefertiti’s Casket of Sea-Frosted Glass and Faience >
Hand-cut Murano glass art, framed
H 30 x W 26 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW309
£1,600
Night Fishing with Paul Klee >
Hand-cut Murano glass art, framed
H 30 x W 25.5 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW307
£1,600
Venice by Night : Liquid Gold >
No. 1 in a series of 25
Hand-cut layered glass, Venetian gold leaf, bespoke frame
H 21 x W 21 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW334
£1,900
Midnight in the City of Sapphire Chandeliers >
Faceted and layered glass
H 29 x W 25 x D 6 cm
Ref. GWW343
£2,000

A limited edition booklet of six essays on each piece in the collection Place : Settings
Limited edition of 75, Raphael Press, ISBN: 978-1-9162162-1-1
£10
Place : Settings, a series of six assemblages
porcelain mug, Royal College of Art, class of 2013 student production, from the R.C.A. Diploma Show 2013; with two black glass inclusions, one inside the mug, and one beside it
H 11 x W (mug only, including handle) 11 cm
Ref. GWW2010
£500
Royal Doulton Vase with gilded glass insertion
H 41 x D 12 cm
Ref. GWW354
£550
An Offering For The Hungry Ghosts >
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Place : Settings, a series of six assemblages
Japanese faceted bowl in imitation of worn lacquer ware, 21st century; with one green glass inclusion
Available individually
H 8 x W 11 cm
Ref. GWW209