GLASS ART

 

Flat Panel Foiled Glass

(Portraits in Glass)

 

Sculpture With Glass

 

 

Glass Art Commissions

 

 

Works in Progress

 


Glass Work with Snow

I see and hold glass art as a distinct art form rather than merely an advanced craft, as it is usually perceived by the public…each piece and each step in bringing it to reality involves a high commitment to artistic conception, expression, and precise execution technique, much like the work of a painter or sculpture, usually recognized as “fine art…”

When done with a fine art approach, each piece can evoke emotion, and meaning and have a distinct impact upon the viewer…The power of glass, is in its intrinsic nature to change its mood as the light that shines through it changes moment to moment during the day, and as the seasons come and go…

Glass is an amazing material in that is it neither a solid nor a liquid but is considered in physics as an “amorphous solid,” which means as it cools from its liquid state it never crystalizes, but hardens as a “solid liquid…”

Working with this material and its dance with light is a deLIGHT and it teaches the artist who works with it, how to respect and honor its limits..

If you are interested in Glass Art Instruction please contact me

Below is a video of the 1985 MPBN program “Maine Arts Magazine” where Ed Morin of Maine Public Television visits Sho-Shin (Japanese for “the Spirit of the Beginner”) Glass Art studio in Portland, Maine, and speaks with artist Roger Richmond