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…
Hot formed glass sculpture with encased flamework and exterior engraving 8 inches
“Eagle” Hot formed glass, encased, carved and painted. 8 inches I created “Eagle” at the Corning Museum of Glass Studio where I am an instructor. My roots are in hot glass sculpting. I like to revisit it at times and develop work that is hot sculpted as well as carved and painted. Hot glasswork is…
Hot sculpted glass, gold leaf, engraving 4 inches tall Made at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass. Cutting by James Poore. I began to design bases for my sculpted glass birds, adding black sign paint and then using a pin to create drawings in the wet paint. I added millefiori canes and created…
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.
Hot formed glass encased and carved Since 1976 I created many hundreds of miniature flameworked swans based on this form. I decided to enlarge the form and include hundreds of canes I designed and made. The form conveys the floating feeling of a swan on a pond and speaks to my Italian heritage.
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, painted exterior, applied flamework, sandblasted
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 8 inches tall
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, applied flamework, painted exterior 3 inches
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.…
Encased flameworked glass Inspired by human profiles and the effects of DNA on the human body. Hand cut and polished by Debbie.
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass; engraved, painted exterior 3 inches
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, exterior painting Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass with exterior battuto cutting.
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, engraved exterior 2 1/2 inches
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…
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 4 inches in diameter
Hot sculpted glass, encased flamework 3 inches The scarlet dahlia was my signature flower for many years. Since childhood I grew dahlias in my own garden. I love gardening. I liked the idea of a dew droplet containing the flower, as the flower survives using water to live and the drip shape creates a beautiful…
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…
Hot sculpted, encased flamework, painted exterior 4 inches
