Meet Your Maker – Madeline Bunyan
Meet Your Maker – Madeline Bunyan: There are some people in life who seem to have a quiet, innate magic about them. The sort of people who, rather than spend an afternoon doom-scrolling or aggressively reorganising the kitchen drawers, turn their hands to something both intricate and deeply beautiful. Madeline Bunyan is one such person. Nestled in the heart of Devon, she conjures light, colour, and memory into exquisite glass beads and marbles that shimmer with the kind of iridescence usually reserved for dragonfly wings and the still, silent moments just after rain.
Memorial Glass with Madeline Bunyanglass
Madeline is not just a glass artist. She is an alchemist, a Devonian magician working with heat and breath, turning molten glass into something that seems to have been caught mid-transformation. Her memorial beads—delicate, luminous, each one entirely unique—are made with the utmost care and reverence. They hold ashes within them, folded gently into the swirling patterns, captured in time, a reminder of love and loss that glows with an inner light. And that’s the thing about her work: it doesn’t just sparkle, it radiates.
Memorial Flower Marbles
If you’ve ever been tempted to dismiss glasswork as a niche or merely decorative craft, Madeline’s flower marbles will promptly put you right. These tiny orbs hold entire worlds—ethereal blossoms that seem to float in suspended animation, petals curling and unfurling in a way that suggests they might go on growing long after you’ve looked away. The skill required to create such pieces is immense, but of course, Madeline makes it look effortless, as if she simply breathes these beauties into existence. (She doesn’t, obviously. There’s a torch, a great deal of molten glass, and presumably the patience of a saint.)
Meet Your Maker – Madeline Bunyan – Made in Devon
There is something deeply reassuring about finding an artist like Madeline Bunyan working away in a corner of Devon, creating pieces that will be held, worn, and treasured for years to come. In a world that sometimes feels a little too fast, a little too artificial, her work is a reminder that real artistry still exists. That someone, somewhere, is taking the time to make something by hand, with heart. That the things we love, and the people we lose, can still shine on in the most unexpected and beautiful of ways.
And if that isn’t a kind of magic, I don’t know what is…
You can find her beautiful pieces for Scattering Ashes here.devo