OH ! : Fused glass with Red Laquered Steel Stand

Must Love Steel : Fused dichroic glass and steel

Welcome to my addiction. For more than 22 years I have been creating one of a kind glass art and jewelry. I got started in glass after meeting a lovely 81 year old man who worked in stained glass. He explained the process to me and blessed me with his box tools as he felt he was to old to continue with his hobby.He was having vision problems.

Feeling very honored that he bestowed such a great gift upon me I went right home and got to work on my first small project. I started to work at 11:00 am in the morning and did not stop until sunrise the following day. I could not believe that the day had gone by so fast that I did not notice I missed a night of sleep. A few years later I took a class at a stained glass store and was offered a job. I worked their off and on for a year or so until I opened my own studio with my husband Mark who is a third generation glass artist and the grandson of master glass blower and glass engraver Adolph Sven Johnson.

I think about that lovely man every time I start a new project. That in a few great hours we spent together he turned my life from the drudgery of being an accountant to glass artist for a life time. I never saw him again but say a brief thank you every time I finish a project.

Over 22 years later my passion for glass still continues. I am currently studying glass blowing and after making a ton of glassware that looks like it belongs to the Fred Flinstone family, I hope to master that too.

Although it's much harder than it looks.

Our artwork can be found in Galleries through out the Southwest including the Tucson Museum of Art,and the folowing  publications: Arizona Collectors Giude , The Guild Source Book for Interior and Exterior Archectectural Art, Tucson Lifestyle and Tucson Guide.

 Copyright Pattie and Mark Johnson 1978-2009

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Copying some one else's design is just like steeling their money and is illegal and punishable by law.