I was a porcelain artist for over 30 years and created public art pieces, sculpture and murals during that time. In addition to creating public and private settings, I now mostly work in glass creating freestanding sculptures, pushing the boundaries of the medium and experimenting to see how glass works. Playing with the thicknesses, color saturations, flow of each color and cold working techniques. There’s a gift of translucence using glass, and how the flow and interaction of colors work. As if to seize upon one’s experience of seeing a sunrise, or most recently the aurora borealis we had in Santa Fe, glass gives me an opportunity to create an environment and hold the state and quality of that environment in my glass pieces. All this work is solid fused glass, placed in metal bases. Timeless, and ethereal. Some of my glass takes weeks for a single firing. After cooling, I cold work each piece. What’s great about my glass sculptures is that all sides of each piece have a unique personality. The way light reflects, piercing through the work, capturing subtle flows of color and texture. So in essence, one can turn the piece for alternating views and experience.
