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Contemporary Glass Wall Art Examples

Original fused glass wall art by British artist Linda Rossiter

Glass behaves differently on a wall.


Colour becomes brighter. Transparent areas respond to daylight.
Reflections change as you move around the room.

And because the artwork stands away from the wall, light and shadow become part of the piece itself.

I create contemporary fused glass wall art in my own Hard Edge style, as single panels, diptychs and multi-panel compositions. Some are commissions; others began as ideas I wanted to explore for myself.
Here are some of my favourites.

Colourful fused glass wall artwork shaped like a Victorian palm house, with tropical plants and red pots
Close-up of Palm House showing colourful glasshouse architecture, yellow flowers, sweeping green leaves and red pots
Palm House fused glass artwork displayed on a white wall above a table and indoor plants
Angled close-up of Palm House showing a red glass plant pot and large green leaves standing away from the wall
Palm House, a large Hard Edge glass wall artwork More than 320 individually cut pieces make up Palm House Glasshouse architecture and tropical planting brought together on the wall Standing away from the wall allows the glass to cast changing shadows

Palm House

Architecture, plants and colour competing for attention.

Palm House grew from my love of Victorian glasshouses and botanical gardens. More than 320 individually cut pieces went into the finished artwork.

Gallery contemporary glass wall art composition with colourful portraits, figures, a cup and a seated person arranged across eight pieces
Colourful abstract female face in fused glass, forming the central panel of Gallery
Angled view of a turquoise glass figure and the abstract portrait panel from Gallery mounted away from a white wall
Closer view of Gallery showing colourful fused glass figures, a seated person and abstract pictures arranged on the wall
Eight separate pieces arranged as one complete composition The central portrait at the heart of Gallery Each piece stands away from the wall in its own right The wall spaces between the pieces become part of the artwork

Gallery

Contemporary glass wall art doesn't have to be a single panel.

Gallery is an eight-piece montage designed to work as one complete composition. The spaces between the individual glass pieces become part of the artwork too.

Spectrum abstract fused glass wall panel with bands of red, yellow, green, turquoise and blue
Linda Rossiter standing beside the narrow colourful glass wall panel Spectrum
Close-up of Spectrum showing green and blue glass offcuts, circular shapes and slender glass rods
Spectrum colourful glass wall panel displayed above a white table with a fern and green desk lamp
Spectrum moves from warm reds and yellows through green to deep blue Spectrum, a narrow contemporary fused glass wall panel filled with colour Small offcuts and glass rods pull the bands of colour together A narrow wall panel can still bring a strong band of colour to a room

Spectrum

Abstract glass art created almost entirely from colour itself.

Spectrum began with boxes of glass offcuts in my studio. I arranged them into bands of colour, adding glass rods and lines to pull the composition together.

Its transparent and opaque sections react very differently as the light changes through the day.

Shangri-La fused glass landscape wall art displayed above flowers and green plants in a light interior
Close view of Shangri-La showing red rhododendrons, snow-capped Himalayan mountains, green hills and blue water
Side view of the Shangri-La glass wall panel showing blue water, green hills and the metal wall fixing
Shangri-La contemporary fused glass wall panel with blue mountains, red rhododendrons, green hills and a lake
Shangri-La, a contemporary glass landscape created for a collector’s home A remembered Himalayan landscape rather than a copy of one photograph Wall fixings hold the glass away from the wall, allowing light behind it Mountains, water and rhododendrons brought together in one fused glass wall panel

Shangri-La

A Himalayan landscape remembered rather than copied.

The collector wanted the best parts of several journeys brought together in one artwork. Instead of reproducing a photograph, I created a composite landscape using mountains, rhododendrons, sky and colour.

The finished piece is a 20 × 14 inch wall panel.

Orchids contemporary fused glass wall panel with two large white flowers against a blue, turquoise and green background
Orchids fused glass wall artwork displayed beside white orchids and green foliage
Angled view of the tall Orchids glass wall panel framed by white flowers and palm leaves
Close-up of white glass orchid petals with a detailed pink, red and brown centre against a blue background
Orchids, a contemporary glass wall panel built around two white flowers Botanical glass wall art shown beside living orchids The tall proportions allow this glass panel to hold a smaller wall The complex centre of an orchid translated into individually cut glass

Orchids

A smaller wall panel can still completely hold a wall.

This commission began with photographs of orchids and a very specific idea about their shapes and colours.

Through several design stages it became a tall contemporary glass wall panel built around two flowers.

The finished artwork measures 10 × 20 inches.

Gardening contemporary fused glass wall panel with large blue irises and flowing bands of bright colour, displayed above green plants
Linda Rossiter standing beside Gardening, a tall colourful fused glass wall panel featuring two blue irises
Close-up of a blue iris in Gardening, formed from individually cut pieces of blue, turquoise and purple glass
Angled view of the Gardening glass wall panel showing blue irises surrounded by sweeping red, yellow, green and turquoise shapes
Gardening, an abstract botanical glass wall panel filled with intense blues Linda Rossiter with Gardening, a contemporary Hard Edge glass wall artwork As the design developed, the irises moved further away from realism Sweeping colour surrounds the blue irises across the full glass panel

Gardening

Sometimes a subject becomes stronger when you move away from realism.

Gardening began with memories of the collector's mother and her love of irises.

The final design became much more abstract, allowing the intense blue flowers and flowing shapes to dominate the wall panel.

The Sea contemporary fused glass wall panel with large shells and conches in orange, yellow, cream, blue and turquoise
Linda Rossiter standing beside The Sea, a tall colourful fused glass wall panel featuring shells and conches
Angled close-up of The Sea showing large spiral shells and a conch surrounded by sweeping blue and turquoise glass shapes
Gardening and The Sea displayed together as two contemporary fused glass wall panels, one featuring blue irises and the other colourful shells
The Sea, a contemporary glass wall panel inspired by shells collected on travels Standing beside The Sea gives a better sense of the scale of this tall glass wall panel Shells and conches became bold shapes rather than literal illustrations Two personal memories became a pair of contemporary glass wall panels

The Sea

One commission. Another memory. A completely different result.

The Sea was created as a companion to Gardening and was inspired by the enormous shells and conches the collector's father brought home from his travels.

Together the two artworks show how personal memories can become contemporary glass wall art without becoming literal illustrations.

Biarritz contemporary fused glass diptych with two vertical panels combining blue water and colourful abstract architectural shapes
Close-up of the Biarritz glass wall art showing red, green, blue and yellow shapes held away from the wall by a metal fixing
Left panel of the Biarritz diptych with blue water, a white arch and abstract green, yellow and red architecture
Angled side view of the two Biarritz glass wall panels in blue, green, yellow, orange and red
Biarritz, a contemporary fused glass diptych designed as one wall artwork Mounting the panels away from the wall brings coloured light and shadow into the composition One half of Biarritz, combining architecture and water in brilliant colour The space between the two glass panels forms part of the composition

Biarritz Diptych

Two panels designed to become one artwork.

Biarritz was inspired by the architecture, water and brilliant light of southern France. The two fused glass panels were designed to complement each other, rather than work independently.

It's a more specialised example of what wall-mounted glass can do when the composition extends beyond a single panel.

What makes contemporary glass wall art different?

A painting reflects light.

Glass can do more with it.

Transparent glass allows light through.

Opaque glass holds its colour.

Reflections appear on the surrounding wall.

Fine lines and the shapes of the individually cut glass pieces become more apparent as you move closer.

The result can look noticeably different in morning light, evening light or artificial light.

That's one of the reasons I fell in love with glass in the first place.


Large or small?

Wall art doesn't have to dominate a room.

Some collectors choose a substantial statement piece. Others want a narrower panel for a particular space, or several individual pieces designed to work together.

The important question isn't really size.

It's what works on your wall, in your room, with your light.

Individual glass balloons arranged to work together in the collector’s home

Thinking about commissioning wall art of your own?

You don't need to arrive with a finished design.

A place, photograph, memory, favourite artwork, colour combination or simply the beginning of an idea is enough.

If you're curious about what commissioning involves, start here:

How to Commission Original Art for the First Time

Or see how an idea develops from first conversation to finished glass:

Vision to Glass: The Making of Linda's Hard Edge Art

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