The sculpture Water Glass was inspired by the oceans’ fury and movement. The brilliant blue color is a borosilicate glass color called Blue Dream. The new series explores the linear patterns and flowing current of water. Many of my glass sculptures develop layers of glass wavy glass lines. This creates a sense of motion and energy in the […]
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Green Glass Seaweed
Making Green Glass Seaweed The Green Glass Seaweed sculpture is part of a new vision for my marine life sculpture. Part of the excitement is coming from the brilliant glass color palette created by Glass Alchemy. The color used in this sculpture has an intense bright green color. When cast under spotlights the complex seaweed […]
Colorful Glass Coral Sculpture
Colorful Glass Coral, Long Tentacle Plate Coral, 2015, Colored Boro Glass, 3.5″ x 11″ x 11″ Long Tentacle Plate Coral, Detail View, 2015, Colored Boro Glass, 3.5″ x 11″ x 11″ Creating colorful glass coral sculpture captures the true beauty of coral reef life. This sculpture is inspired by the marvelous marine creature known as […]
Sculpting Glass Coral Strands
Sculpting glass coral using a glass hand torch can produce very complex forms. I am currently working on a Favia Brain Coral. This species of brain coral is very popular with coral farmers. There are amazing colors and patterns found in this type of coral. I was drawn to the amazing cell structure of this […]
Flameworked Feather Star Sculpture
The flameworked Feather Star was inspired by a stunning creature found in the starfish family. The Feather Star hardly looks like your typical starfish. Instead it looks like some sort of seaweed or branching coral. The Feather Star has many branches that radiate from a central mouth. Each starfish arm has dozens of tendrils that […]
Glass Coral Sculpture from the Torch
As part of my reef project I have begun working on glass coral sculpture. A couple of years ago I made my first glass coral piece. This was a very delicate sculpture using 3 mm glass rods. I really enjoyed working on that piece. I kept thinking about that first coral sculpture while developing this […]