Oil painting on canvas covered board with cast glass elements. 24 by 24 inches Made for the Sandwich REDUX 2012 show. Inspired by two painted and blown glass pieces in the Sandwich Glass Museum collection. A pair of birds sits on a bare branch inside a vase decorated with tulips in relief on its exterior. The…
Oil painting on board with glass flameworked elements 18 by 24 inches
Pencil drawing
Drawing on paper
Cast glass sculpture 10 inches I wanted to make my own version of a “Peace” dove. I made the clay model then tore the edges. Peace is very fragile, almost like paper, which can be so easily torn apart.
Cast glass 11 inches I decided to tell the story of the life cycle using the puzzle as a metaphor. This work speaks of the balance of nature; the transformation of creatures around us. We are all a part of nature, pieces in the puzzle, which always returns to the earth. In the end the bones…
Cast glass 20 by 20 inches I began to think of nature as a cycle and I wanted to capture that cycle in glass. “Life Cycle Puzzle” depicts the life of a bird from egg to its last remains. I wanted to show how even a bird dissolves back to nature, disappearing into the forest floor. I…
Cast glass 9 inches
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.
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.
Cast glass sculpture 10 inches I created this sculpture for my best friend’s birthday. One day I saw morning-doves in my yard sunbathing. They were so uninhibited; after bathing at my birdbath they found a quiet spot and stretched out their wings holding them to the warm sun luxuriating in the day. I so envied…
Cast glass 12 inches I was walking along the beach one day and saw a gull’s wing wash up onto the shore. I thought about all the DNA in the ocean, and the variations of sea and air creatures that live in and by the shore.
Cast glass 4 inches Solitude presents a chick emerging from an egg, that looks as if it is made of stone. After casting, I spent days refining the exterior of the glass until it looked like marble.
Cast glass 10 inches After meeting artists Shinichi and Kimiaki Higuchi of Japan, famous for their Pate de Verre, I began to transform my work again, translating my designs into cast glass. Through months of experimentation on my own, I learned how to create molds from my clay models. I had to make many calculations…
Cast glass 9 inches
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…
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…
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…
