Glassmaking is alchemical, primordial and magical. The challenges of creating glass are numerous and the miraculous results keep us coming back for more. The process of blowing hot glass is a combination of melting chemicals and minerals with extremely high temperatures– 2000F approximately. It is physically exhausting and exhilarating, requiring strength, grace, and perfect timing.
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2000 degrees fahrenheit / 4000 years history
Site Specific Custom Glass
Transform your clients interior space with custom glass lighting and site-specific glass.
One of the best parts about my business is the challenge to create something unique for a specific location, and bring transformation to the space.
What is my process? How do I make the project a success?
I collaborate with architects, designers & clients to bring my glassmaking and design skills to meet their desires.
Each project has its own complexity that allows me to draw from previous experiences and to invent new creations.
By tuning into the surrounding environment, I am able to create a solution for my clients and transform interior spaces with glass and light.
Please contact me if you would like further information about any of my art glass and custom lighting. Each piece is a functional, collectible piece of lighted sculpture signed by me, the artist.
I can work from any location with material samples, colors, and architectural plans.
Have an inspired day!
Ciao Venezia
Murano, the glassmaking island of the Venetian lagoon is my destination this week. I return to the magical world of boats and bridges, the secret island with fiery furnaces behind every wall. Since the 9th century, glass has been made in Murano. In 1291, Murano became the official glassmaking island isolating all the furnaces to one location to protect the buildings of Venice.
Venetian glassmakers, although secluded with their secret trade, and forbidden to leave the Republic, had privileges of wearing swords, and marrying their daughters into nobility.
Today, Murano, only 1.5 km across, inhabits about 5,000 people and hundreds of glass furnaces. You can hear their fuel-driven hum and see the orange glow in the ancient window panes as you come across the lagoon at night. Glass sparkles in every storefront. Mecca for a glass artist. Read more…
