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Jewelry
Glass
Ceramics
Fiber
Wood
Metal
Religious
View all of this artist's items My work is a celebration of color. I use the discipline of precise glass-fusing techniques and the artistry of flowing lines and colors to create pattern and movement. The work uses a minimal aesthetic vocabulary to hint at broader concepts and ideas. My inspiration comes from a variety of sources, beginning with the power of color. The further influence of ancient pictographs, patterns and texture formations allows me to produce a feeling of movement that recalls my sixteen (16) years as a professional dancer. It is my desire to make beautiful objects that inspire personal memories in their owners as colors and shapes are reflected into, around and through the work.I created jewelry with clay until a glass artist friend of mine invited me to a seminar. Soon after, I took a class that taught lampworking glass for beads. The colors were so vibrant and the beads were almost instanteous, unlike clay. It was the perfect fit for me. I soon moved on to fusing larger glass pieces. It was Wendy Rosen at the Crafts Business Institute workshops who told me to continue in the direction of the fused glass. My collage “Boat” piece was my first serious piece. This piece convinced American Craft Council to make me one of four artist granted into the Mentor/Mentee program, out of about hundreds, for my first Baltimore ACC show. It was also a finalist in an international fusing competition and exhibited with the other 39 finalist at Bullseye Glass Connections Gallery in |