The company ‘Glass Odyssey’ was officially formed in February 2004 in the Isle of Man. Julie Anne Denton is the founder of the Company and the principal glassmaker. Julie explains why she chose that particular name for the company, ‘firstly all the work is made from glass. Secondly an artist’s journey through the world can be quite a strange one, facing hardship and delight along the way, but keeping the main objective all the way there, which is to become the best you can hope to be at what you do. So it reminded me of the Greek story by Homer about Ulysses and his adventures whilst he tried to go back home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope. The story of course is ‘The Odyssey’ and so the name of ‘Glass Odyssey’ was born.

At the moment Glass Odyssey is in very small premises in Douglas, the Capital of the Isle of Man; but Julie plans to move the company to a larger studio in the South of the Island in Colby by September 2005.

Julie Anne Denton at the Saachi Gallery