Hunter, Mike

The complex centre features a blue rose surrounded by green & white crimps and lavender stars. Apart from this colourful centre cluster, the overall tonality is white and light-grey. The large, spaced white stars - like exploding fireworks above the mottled, translucent amber ground - give the paper..

A new design featuring white, red, blue & yellow latticinio spirls around a complex cane-cluster centred by a clown’s face. 9 pairs of complex canes placed opposite each other form the perimeter garland. The design is set on short, amber-lined white staves which radiate out from the centre of the po..

A 4-row concentric in a subtle - and unusual - colour combination with complex millefiori canes: tiny green/white crimps in the centre surrounded by white collapsed tubes; clustered star canes in topaz tubes; white/green/blue stars and crimps and a border garland of white/green/topaz crimps and star..

A beautifully executed 4-row concentric composed of just two colours: blue and white. 2 rows of white stardust canes are encircled by 2 rows of blue cogs and white crimps. The central set-up features the same cane as those in the outer rows, plus 7 blue/white stars. The design is set on blue-lined w..

Enclosed within a pale-blue & green corkscrew torsade is a black-bodied butterfly resting on a cushion of white lace. The fore wings are outlined with white stars and filled with pale blue & pink crimp canes; the hind wings are yellow & white with a red “eye”.An MH signature cane is set in the polis..

A new, double-spiral crown in a small edition. From a complex central set-up featuring a blue rose within 2 rings of canes, mauve, green, ivory & white filigree threads swirl down over a blue core to the flat, polished base.In addition to the MH signature cane, the weight is scratch-signed, dated an..

Radiating out from a complex centre cane are 20 two-tone twisted ribbons. They are joined by white latticinio spirals to another 20 two-tone ribbons in the lower half of the weight. There are subtle differences in the colour combinations...so rather than count them all, let’s just say this “one-off”..

A well-executed design: one of 2 prototypes for a later small edition. 12 pale-blue & peach roses and green leaves are spaced over swirling latticinio threads on clear ground - the later limited edition had a blue centre !An MH signature cane is set in the top pf the weight. The flat, polished base ..

A novelty weight with 4 different, highly-detailed murrine clown portraits - floating on strings like balloons - against a greyish-blue “sky”. Although they look quite simple, it takes a good deal of expertise to make not only the murrine canes, but also the weight itself, which is basically a centr..

Mike’s whimsical lizard paperweight has become a staple for the studio and is an excellent way of demonstrating the huge range of Twists that Mike specializes in. Here, the friendly-looking fellow perched on the outside of the weight has blue, red and amethyst colouring over a mottled purple cushion..

This is how it all started - although it was to take a couple of years before Mike could be persuaded to start making collector’s paperweights. A close concentric: 4 rows of complex white, forest-green & purple-lined blue millefiori canes around a green centre cane. The outer row is slightly flared ..

2 rows of close-packed blue, white & forest-green complex canes plus a spaced ring of blue/white crimp canes set around a composite centre cane. The design is encircled by a torsade with 2 latticinio threads wrapped around a fine latticinio tube on a relatively high brick-red cushion. A nice touch i..