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(This is a polaroid transfer picture that I did as a self-potrait)
A Little Background Information...
I am a self-representing glass artist (SRA M14) and I have been flameworking for about six years now.
Although I studied this art at the Worcester Center for Crafts, I spent nearly a year "noodling" around
before that on my own making initial discoveries and experimenting with the process. While at the Craft Center,
I studied beadmaking with Liliana Glenn and flameworking (mostly boro sculptural techniques)with Jake Vincent.
What I love about the lampworking process is the direct
connection to the physics of the world we live in:
to make a bead is to win
a war of balancing the forces of gravity and surface tension, heating and cooling.
(All within a framework of artistic sensibility, mind you.)
Flame working
is a dynamic, evolving art form awash in beautiful color and light,
and I
never tire of the challenges that it presents.
Past
Learning Adventures:
Worcester State College: B.A. Mathematics and Natural Science.
Grad School: U. Conn. (Geology).
Art Studies: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Web Design Masters Certificate: Clark University.
Lampworking Classes at Worcester Center for Crafts.
When I am not lampworking I am second shift staff to two grandcats... Shadow Boxer (aka "Shady") and Pi Mae.
My first "studio" set-up was in the Bernat Mill in Uxbridge as part of the Visiting Artist Studio Program. I am a member of the ISGB (International Society of Glass Beadmakers) and the local Boston chapter of this organizattion. Finally a few links to my websites. You can see more about my lampwork by going to: Blackstone Bead (Me...in my studio... in geeky protective glasses)
They carefully inspect all of my beads and steal my favorite chair in the studio.
When I moved from the mill, we took half of our attached two-car garage to build my lampworking studio in summer 2004,
and in the summer of 2006 made the move from a hot head torch set-up to a Nortel minor bench burner.
I use a paragon kiln with a "Perfect Fire"
electronic controller to anneal my beads as I work,
and I love my electric bead reamer...
it gets my beads wonderfully clean with minimal effort!
I am also a member of the lampworking groups "Lampwork Etc." and "Wet Canvas" and I am the web designer for the
Self-Representing-Artist website for glass artists.
I also have a separate website for my jewelry designs at Blackstone River Design
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