Jenny McLeod is a contemporary glass artist from West Auckland, NZ. She creates quality, original functional glassware, sculpture, garden art, installation and exhibition work and enjoys using glass for a modern environment in a non-fragile way. Her two 6 cubic foot kilns in her workshop at home give her the control required to fuse and slump cut and layered sheet glass. 

Much of her work is mixed media , incorporating a variety of materials including concrete, resin beads, wood, pumice, shells, feathers and a NZ native fibre, Harakeke.  Jenny enjoys working with all these materials and is inspired by their natural quality and the unlimited possibilities of combining them with glass.

Jenny's Whitianga farming upbringing on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ, nature  and the Pacific are constant reference points and inspiration for her work.

http://www.jmcleodglass.co.nz/ 

https://www.facebook.com/JennyMcLeodGlass 

https://www.instagram.com/jennymcleodglass/

About your host:
Mandy Jakich is the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters, an award winning business providing creative, educational opportunities to enrich the lives of our children, educators, artists and community. https://www.creativematters.co.nz/

She is a practising artist www.amandajakich.co.nz and a teacher, with more than 30 years in various capacities at primary and intermediate schools across Auckland NZ.

She worked for 4 years as an art educator at the Auckland Art Gallery - New Zealand's largest and finest gallery - designing and delivering visual arts programmes to primary, secondary and special needs children, as well as Professional Development courses for teachers.

​Mandy founded Creative Matters in response to an increasing need and demand for creative visual arts opportunities for children - both in and out of school - with a genuine belief in the value of a rich creative process and developing creative experiences and connections through art.

Seven years on, Creative Matters has blossomed into a well known company with a team of passionate art educators and administrators.  Creative Matters  facilitate Professional Development visual arts courses for primary teachers:
 https://www.creativematters.co.nz/professional-development
Visual art creative workshops and experiences for children:
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/for-children
Public art projects and creative opportunities  in the community
https://www.creativematters.co.nz/for-communities

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