So legend has it, the Firebird would fly into prince Ivans Tsarevich’s garden with its feathers blazing with a silver and golden sheen, its eyes were shining like crystal and it would light the place as brightly as a thousand burning fires.

Size: 53cm x 37cm
Medium: Venetian smalti, gold plain and ripple, glass, on mdf
Date: 2003
Artist: Colette O’Brien