About Red Robin Memorial Glass

Here at Red Robin Memorial Glass, we specialise in creating pieces of handmade glass art encasing small amounts from the cremation ashes from our client’s loved ones.

We create beautiful pieces of art & keepsakes, so that clients have something physical to hold on to, to help them navigate their grief & come to terms with their loss.

After a cremation it is often difficult to know what to do with the ashes, as scattering them can feel very final. Some clients feel that after having pieces of memorial glass made, which they can treasure forever, they feel much happier to scatter the remaining ashes in a way that is personal to them.

At Red Robin, when a client sends ashes to us, they treated with great care and respect. No two sets of ashes are ever handled at the same time and the art glass is created with a sensitivity and attention to detail that we are very proud of.

At our hot glass workshop, the tools and techniques are very traditional. Keeping an ancient craft alive, with skills that have been passed down from glassmaker to glassmaker over hundreds of years. The colours in the glass are achieved by adding different metals and oxides. The colour palette used in our memorial range have been developed in a way to work well with the ashes, creating a visual effect that aims to capture a sense of life and movement.

All of our glass is made by Ian Shearman. A glassmaker with over 20 years experience in the hot glass making process and the tools and equipment needed. Ian started a as a glass makers assistant at the world famous Bristol Blue Glass, as an apprentice to some of the most talented glassmakers in the South West of England. After five years at Bristol Blue Glass, Ian started working at Bath Aqua Glass as well, before moving full time to Bath, where he went on to become Head Glassmaker and Hot Floor Manager. His work ethic has always been one of ensuring that glass products are made to a standard that clients are going to be proud to own and he now has his own glass blowing workshop in the heart of Somerset, just outside of the historic town of Frome.

“Making memorial glass is one of the most satisfying parts of my work.

As I know that every piece I make is so personal to someone.”

We would like to thank you for considering Red Robin Memorial Glass to create a piece of glass art for you and if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.