A DISPLAY of celebrity doodles which were immortalised in glass by artists at this year’s International Festival of Glass will come to a close this week.

The Oodles of Doodles exhibition, which features work inspired by doodles created by celebrities including Lenny Henry, Steve Bull, Beverley Knight and Dave Hill, is running at Broadfield House Glass Museum until Sunday (August 30).

Allister Malcolm, member of the British Glass Foundation and celebrated glass artist, created and led the project which saw Emma Thompson’s glass rose transformed into a blown fuchsia glass vessel, Maggie Philbin’s high tech doodle set as a glass camera, and Lenny Henry’s best wishes to Dudley doodle created as a range of colourful tumblers.

All the pieces will be auctioned in October to raise funds for the British Glass Foundation’s heritage projects.

Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, Dudley cabinet member for regeneration, said: “The doodles project really captured everyone’s imagination in the run up the glass festival and the range of pieces that the artists created based on these simple doodles is quite spectacular.

“It’s great to see all the pieces on display together for the first, and only time, before they are auctioned to raise funds for the British Glass Foundation who will oversee the borough’s excellent glass collection when it moves to the White House Cone glass museum next year.”

Broadfield House Glass Museum, in Compton Drive, Kingswinford, offers free entry between noon and 4pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

Footage of the doodles being turned into glass art can be viewed on youtube by visiting www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoIb9SZHDk and www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9JCMvlbG0Y