Peter Layton

Pioneering British glass artist and founder of London Glassblowing

Peter Layton is a British glass artist and the founder of London Glassblowing, one of the most influential glass studios and galleries in the UK. Born in Prague to Jewish parents, he and his family escaped in 1939 and settled in Bradford, where he counted artist David Hockney among his friends. A trip to the US in the 1960s to teach ceramics led him to his first encounter with glassblowing, and when he returned to th...