COMMISSIONS
Elizabeth creates bespoke glass art pieces tailored for both corporate and private clients. Understanding the specific requirements—including size, budget, and timeframe—is essential to ensure the final work exceeds expectations. By carefully listening and discussing all aspects, Elizabeth creates a piece reflecting the client's vision. Elizabeth will listen and will create a design that is not only beautiful but has personal meaning.
Raine Square, Perth WA
Elizabeth was commissioned to create a work for Raine Square, Perth, depicting the four original corner facades while linking visually to the adjoining building. She and a local steel fabricator developed a durable framework to support four dichroic glass panels, each representing one facade. The dichroic treatment shifts colour and reflectivity with light and angle, so the panels read differently through the day and in varying weather. Arranged to suggest the original alignment and bridge to the neighbouring structure, the restrained metalwork frames the glass without competing. Materials and methods—architectural-grade dichroic glass with weatherproof seals, hot-dip galvanised and powder-coated steel—were chosen for durability and low maintenance; installation allows for secure anchoring, thermal movement, and cleaning access. The finished work serves as both a memorial to the original facades and a contemporary, context-sensitive marker that engages the streetscape.
Another Favourite Commission for Elizabeth is a Window that was created for a Client incorporating images from their Cultural Heritage. Very special and challenging - incredibly detailed and complex both in design and in regards to the intricate construction.
Private Commission
Private Commission
Elizabeth was asked to create a minimalist glass wall sculpture using soft pastels in memory of the client’s mother, a very special commission that demanded quiet restraint and emotional clarity. She chose pastel washes—powdered rose, dove grey, sea-sage and white—so the palette reads as a gentle memory rather than a literal portrait. The composition is spare: intersecting squares with subtle variations in opacity to evoke the way recollection shifts with time. Mounted on a neutral backing to maintain focus, the finished piece is tactile yet ethereal, intended to be a calm, enduring refuge for private reflection.
Elizabeth was asked to create feature windows (50cm x 50cm each) for an early learning centre depicting the Nyoongar seasons of Western Australia. The commission needed to be engaging at eye level for young children, and respectful in their representation of the seasonal cycles of Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba and Kambarang.
Each window needed a concise visual language using motifs that read well from a child’s perspective but held layered meaning for adults. Elizabeth developed compositions that combined abstract colour fields with recognisable forms—stylised grass trees, coastal waves, native wildflowers, and footprints suggesting animal movement.
The windows are both beautiful and engaging.
This Window commission was extremely challenging as it required many layers to achieve the depth in the design. My client asked me to create a piece that carried their cultural background and history — a visual narrative woven into the glass through technique, colour and texture.
To honour that brief I began with research into the motifs, colours and materials significant to their culture. I translated those elements into a layered approach using multiple overlays to introduce depth and translucency to the traditional motifs.
The finished piece balances cultural symbolism with contemporary glass practice: the colours and patterns remain legible close up, while the layered transparency provides a contemplative distance when viewed as a complete work. The result is a durable, luminous object that carries the client’s heritage in both literal motifs and the material memory of the making process.
A private commission has been undertaken to create a four-metre-tall window designed to symbolise the interconnectedness of earth and sky. The upper section of the window features a delicate rendering of a tree, its branches reaching upward to meet the sky. Transitioning to the lower panel, the design immerses viewers in an underwater scene that captures the tranquillity and vibrancy beneath the surface. The composition balances these elements to evoke a seamless connection between nature’s domains, using thoughtful colour palettes and textural glass techniques to enhance depth and movement throughout the piece.
