2011 Life Cycle Puzzle, Part Three
Cast glass 8 inches It amazes me how nature reclaims its own. Insects take care of the forest creatures and turn them back to nature.
2011 What I Learned While on the Forest Floor
Cast glass 12 inches The forest floor represents deterioration and renewal as leaves return to the soil to rise again in the form of new growth as trees. Sooner or later we all find ourselves on the forest floor.
2010 Wabi Sabi Bird
Cast glass 9 inches
2010 To Taste of Spring, Study
Cast glass and flamework 12 inches This is a study for “To Taste of Spring,” a small vignette in which a bird looks hopefully into a frozen pond with fall leaves imbedded in ice. The bird longs for the spring, as he looks quizzically at the leaves frozen into the water. In this sculpture, I…
2010 To Taste of Spring
Cast glass and flamework 10 inches “To Taste of Spring,” is a poignant vignette in which a bird looks hopefully into a frozen pond with fall leaves imbedded in ice. The bird longs for the spring, as he looks quizzically at the leaves frozen into the water. In this sculpture, I wanted to create a mood…
2009 Saphire Bird
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, exterior painting and cutting, sandblasted, applied gemstones 7 inches tall I love birds; they are such expressive creatures. I raised caged birds as a child and enjoy observing birds at my outdoor feeders. My glass birds are abstracted creatures unlike anything in nature. They are birds from my imagination, embodying the spirit…
2009 Ruby Bird
Hot formed glass sculpture with encased flamework and exterior cutting I began to sculpt abstract hot glass birds and wanted to animate them, creating a sense that they could be alive. I found gestures in live birds and translated them into glass.
2007 Pouring
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 8 inches tall
2008 Crystal Woman
Encased, flameworked line drawing portrait in glass During a visit to The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, I met Jiri Harcuba and Martin Rosol from the Czech Republic. Martin sculpts cold glass and Jiri is a glass engraver. After meeting Jiri and Martin I began to cut, polish, and engrave my own sculptures.…
2008 DNA Boat
Encased flameworked glass Inspired by human profiles and the effects of DNA on the human body. Hand cut and polished by Debbie.
2006 Urban Intersection
Oil painting on canvas, accompanied by encased, flameworked glass sculpture In designing “Urban Intersection” I first made an oil painting, and then designed a glass sculpture interpreting the oil painting in glass (cutting by Ed Poore). “Urban Intersection” speaks of the busy streets of New York, where thousands of people come and go on grids of…
2007 Splash
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 4 inches in diameter
2007 Lateral Drip
A hot sculpted, encased flameworked red dahlia 4 inches These designs revisit my “Red Dahlia,” recreating dahlias in sculptural forms that push the limits of hot-forming glass in a torch. After more than thirty years of torch work, I had developed great control over hot moving glass. This drip design however poses extreme difficulty because of…
2006 Paradise Lost
Encased flamework, millefiori, flameworked human profiles. The exterior is engraved with a wave. Inspired by the tsunami in South East Asia. I began perfecting my own millefiori canes and latticino, and developed ways to use canes and latticino in my designs instead of using them as embellishment around the design. The snake was made using only millefiori…
2006 Paisley Snakes
Encased flameworked glass 3 inches in diameter Millefiori flameworked snakes on a flameworked ground.
2003 Lacy Dahlia
Encased flameworked glass 3 inches in diameter Abstract dahlia with flameworked latticino petals.
2005 Red Dahlia Collage
Encased flameworked glass 4 inches in diameter Encased flamework collage featuring a large multi-petal red dahlia flower.
2005 80 Flower Collage
A large encased flamework collage design with multiple flowers with complex millefiori centers 4 inches in diameter Flameworking is very meditative; manipulating glass in a flame often creates a Zen-like feeling. Each flower has a unique, complex center stamen cane. The flamework to make this piece took thousands of hours of concentration and deep thought.…
2005 Madam XY
Hot sculpted glass, encased flamework 4 inches After the Sergeant painting, in this modern version, “Madam XY” speaks of genetics.
2003-06 Reaching for Peace, Love and Acceptance
Engraved, encased flameworked glass This work was made before the Iraqi conflict, at a time when the United States was considering invading Iraq. It was a time of indecision. I created a heart dripping blood and a broken heart from millefiori. I used peace signs from the 1970s because it reminded me of that time.…