Working in glass is exciting and challenging. Most art mediums rely on using one’s hands for manipulation but with hot glass one must learn to use tools, air, heating and cooling, and gravity to form the work. It is exciting, and a bit of an adrenaline rush. Glass is tentative and with the smallest mistake in heat or cold, a tap of the rod can send a piece of art crashing to the ground. When a work is completed it can generate the utmost feelings of accomplishment and satisfaction.
We both love playing and creating with molten glass. It gives great pleasure to take something that has the consistency of honey, only much hotter, and shape it into a finished vase, or bowl. It is the glass itself that is the inspiration. Mixing colors and textures, heating, pulling, pushing, and spinning in order to bring something so fluid into a solid lasting creation.