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Welcome to this display of our Kaleidoscope work, which developed out of our 20-year involvement in Stained Glass. We hope you will share our enthusiasm for the magical images which are conjured up by these deceptively simple instruments. We are based in Odiham, Hampshire in UK and as far as we know, we have the only studio dedicated to design and creation of Kaleidoscopes in the country. We are certainly the only UK-based Kaleidoscope artists to be featured in the prestigious US-published Kaleidoscope Collectors' Guide. We are members of the US-based Brewster Kaleidoscope Society and of the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen We do not sell through this website; below is a list of outlets end events where you can find our work. Alternatively, you can contact us directly to obtain prices and purchase via mail order, using the contact details below, (and visit us by appointment,at our workshop, where we usually have some stock available). In the albums below, you will find illustrations of the principal types of kaleidoscope we make, plus examples of the images they produce. We are: Kaleidoscope Studio UK located in Odiham, Hampshire, UK. Our contact details: Telephone 01256 395019 (+44 1256 395019 from outside UK) Email: frank_higgins1@hotmail.com (You will need to copy this link and paste it into your email address bar (These details are also in the first album "Kaleidoscopes by Janet & Frank Higgins") You can find our work on view at: The Surrey Guild Craft Gallery, 1 Moushill Lane, Milford, Surrey GU8 5BH where we have the largest display of kaleidoscopes in the UK The Frame Gallery, 81 High Street, Odiham, Hampshire RG29 1LB From time to time, with Surrey Guild at Shop@Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey The Gallery@The Guild, The Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6DS We are listed in: Craft and Design Selected 2011 Exhibitions/Craft Shows: Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancashire - Nov/Dec 2011 Farnham Maltings - 15/16 Oct 2011 We will not be exhibiting at SouthHill Park, Bracknell this year. Surrey Guild in Guildford, 2-11 Dec 2011 at the Angel Hotel, High Street Guildford. Lovers Lights Gallery - 64 The Green, Twickenham, Middlesex. TW2 5AG commences Feb 2012 Alternatively, you are welcome visit our Odiham Studio (by appointment, telephone and email details above) In addition to this website, there are videos of most of our kaleidoscopes at My YouTube site (some of these are linked to picture albums here). Anyone interested in the possibility of creating kaleidoscopes for themselves can join "Kaleidoscope Builders' Knowledge Base"(KBKB) of which Frank is Moderator. By clicking on the first picture below you will see a summary and brief descriptions of our various types of kaleidoscope. More detailed descriptions, pictures and some videos are reached by clicking on any of the other albums listed below. |
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