Winter Solstice Update

Happy Holidays Everyone, and best wishes for a wonderful, lucky and healthy 2009! We are starting to turn the corner towards spring and warmer weather- and that’s welcome news… I can see my breath at the studio and everyone crowds around the furnace to keep warm… I was in the studio the other day, enjoying…

Studio Visit from Transartists group

The art organization transartists visited the studio, and watched a glassblowing demonstration.  This is my first press in Dutch! Here is the English translation, courtesy of the author, Erik Hagoort: Glass Power! Vrij Glas, Zaandam After passing a garish row of furniture shops   in Zaandam, the bus swerves onto a rather swampy dike. Next to…

From the studio: New Large-Scale Piece in Progress

  Here is a picture of very big piece I just started on in the last month. It’s the largest I’ve ever made. This is only the first 1/4 of it- 90″ wide by 80″ tall. It will be a large pile of amphoras, with a sort of reflection underneath. I hope to show it…

New Spring Work in Progress

  In Process- Growth, Flowering, Decline                   Almost done! It is Spring at the studio, and these recent pieces are a lot about growing, branching and interconnections- supportive systems. They are floral and botanical, and when I work on them, I like to imagine that they are growing across the paper. This smaller piece is about…

Fresh from the studio…

I was out at Vrij Glas today working on two new pieces. Here are process shots- they aren’t done yet. The top one is going to be even bigger by at least 30%. We had a great day out there- I had 2 assistants (thanks to Marc Barreda, the resident expert, and Marianne Lammersen, from…