About Julia Linstead
Julia broke her knee cap during the foundation year of her degree, diverting her from a glittering career in ceramics (due to all the potters’ wheels being kick powered, not electric) and into glass by the timely and fortuitous discovery of a book on kiln forming glass. After destroying all the kilns at her foundation college by melting glass into the heating coils, Julia was accepted onto the Glass and Ceramics degree course at Sunderland Polytechnic. When she had completed her degree they mended all the kilns, changed the poly into a university, moved into the fabulous National Glass Centre and Sunderland became a city. Julia does not claim to be the cause of, or take credit for any of these things happening….apart from getting the degree.
All that was last century anyway.
Julia moved to her gallery workshop at the Hirsel Country Estate last century too and has been happily blasting away in the beautiful Scottish Borders ever since.
Her glass is better travelled than Julia having been in exhibition in Europe, Japan and North America and she now has collectors across the globe.