The Wonder Flask, glass paint on a volumetric flask, by Leila Currah

Science is fun, and so is painting the glassware from my lab!

I work in a Neuropathology Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and every blue moon, we have a clear out of old equipment and glassware. Rather than recycle it, I took this beautifully shaped volumetric flask home with me to paint.

With a background in both fields, I am growing more and more passionate about exploring the ways in which science and art overlap, and the potential for art to enrich the sciences.

So it seemed like a natural thing to do, and a nice opportunity, to turn something designed for use in a laboratory into a work of art.