Meg Caslake & David Pedler

Caslake and Pedler Glass is a collaborative partnership between artists, Meg Caslake and David Pedler. We both have design degrees and met whilst at Jam Factory Design Centre in Adelaide, working with glass and ceramics. Our business is handmade glass, and we are passionate about glass!  We love the look of glass, its beauty, the colours, the transparency or opacity, it’s fluidity, changing to a solid. We love the chemistry involved to make it and the minerals used to colour it. (And the heat and fire!)

There are seemingly magical qualities to glass, the optical illusions that can be created and the interaction between glass and light. The way light can travel through the glass and highlight a particular point, feels like magic. There is the fact that UV light can change the colour of pink glass to purple over time. Then the joy in how it can be sculpted, pressed, cast or blown, into almost any shape that can be imagined! Our obsession/passion with glass has led us to take the risk and set up a hot glass (and ceramics) studio, in an old chocolate factory in Adelaide, where we also live. We have set up the studio and built most of the equipment ourselves. 

We are connected and deeply involved in every piece and every aspect of the process and production of our glass. From its formula, to cooking it, designing it, making the tools and equipment, then the production and finishing. And finally, getting the glass to our clients, safely and on time.

Our Inspiration

Most of our population are coastal dwellers. Most of our Cities are by the sea. The sea, sky and beach life are deep in our psyche. Living close to, or holidays at the

beach, al-fresco dining, casual, light filled, joyous and relaxed is a big part of our lifestyle. Our inspiration comes from wanting to capture the elements, colours and the bright light of the beach. Our sea-glass bowls are directly inspired by found fragments of glass washed up on the shore, etched and translucent, with softly undulating edges, smoothed and shaped by the action of waves and sand on the glass over time. The colours of soft blue waters, greens of kelp and sea grasses, sandy yellow and bright and faded light, are all mirrored in our sea-glass bowls.  Just watching the waves turn and the different colours of water, was the motivation to produce the wave series. We have tried to capture the joy of being in the water and watching the sparkling waves. Our clouds were inspired by watching our big open skies. From the ferries in Sydney Harbour or at the beach or on a road trip to stunning Uluru. This led us to produce our series of four different shaped clouds in soft colours. They can be personally arranged to please the viewer. Or can be back lit to have as a peaceful glowing cloud in a quiet spot.

‘Cobalt Swirl’

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‘Clouds’

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‘Tidal Platters’

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