Artist in glass
30th March 1979, Page 38
30th March 1979
Page 38
Page 38, 30th March 1979
— Artist in glass
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Originally a painter, Douglas Burgess, of Magirus Deutz (GB) Ltd, has become a' noted glass engraver whose work is widely admired. He reproduces the more beautiful parts of Cheshire and Staffordshire with diamond-tipped hand engrav tool on lead-crystal goblets a first sketching the scenes pencil.
He shuns the dentist's and fast cutting wheel, pre ring hand tools as creatini closer affinity between him his work. I take his point, there can be few keener disc ragements to artistic achie merit than a dentist's drill.