Cutting up socks as a 4 year old to make dolls and tearing out the blank pages in encyclopedias for drawing paper led to creating life sized papier mache' sculptures for our living room. I think we were the only family with a big paper Christmas tree. After a technical career in the Defense Department, I became a full time glass artist and have worked in glass for almost 24 years.
I use multiple mediums. Firing in kilns, I make fused glass plates, bowls, platters, and panels. I love sculpting in clay and casting the sculptures in glass. Left over pieces of glass led to mosaics. Experience with papier mache' and clay led to making sculpted components for glass collage. Glass collage backgrounds are painted with acry
I use multiple mediums. Firing in kilns, I make fused glass plates, bowls, platters, and panels. I love sculpting in clay and casting the sculptures in glass. Left over pieces of glass led to mosaics. Experience with papier mache' and clay led to making sculpted components for glass collage. Glass collage backgrounds are painted with acrylics, embellished with fused and cut glass components and found objects and finished with art resin. I also love making bead mosaics combined with found objects.
I am inspired by the creation we inhabit and how it animates everything. A stone led me to create a fused glass bowl series that looked like water rushing over rocks! A curling ribbon inspired a whole series of glass bowls with wide open spaces and undulating ribbons of glass. The idea of other dimensions influences many of my glass collages. This work has been sold.
Bowls, Platters, Plates, and Panels
This big 18" purple and lavender bowl was from the "Still Growing" series and was priced at $225. This series included vessels in black and gray, red, and multicolored blue. All have been sold.
These are part of a series of bowls and platters hand painted with crushed glass mixed with home made medium and fired. Prices range from 12$ to $125 depending on size.
These works were from the "Red Fish" series of hand painted fused glass bowls and platters and the prices ranged from $35 - $125. All have been sold.
This large fused glass bowl was entitled "Cold Fire" and was sold for full asking price at a fund raiser for the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC.
These works are from the "Coastline Turtles" series of hand painted fused glass bowls and platters and the prices range from $12 - $125. All are sold and I really don't want to make any more.
This piece is an example of commissioned work. The client supplies their color and size requirements and I make a centerpiece worthy creation for them. I created three versions and all three are sold. Commissions are usually priced around $350.
This piece is an example of a one-of -a-kind, unique, work of fused glass art. Many of these are entered into art shows or made for special exhibits. Prices start at $375. This one is sold.
This piece is a new endeavor to incorporate tiny glass powder sculptures painted with enamels onto fused glass plates, platters, and panels. This piece measures 15.5" across and sells for $375.
Objects Sculpted in Clay and Cast in Glass
This work was sculpted in clay and cast in glass. He is entitled "Golden Man." He is still available, even though he got a "Best in Show" award. He weighs 19 pounds so is a rather large figure. He spent 3 weeks in the kiln and costs $850. He has been sold.
This is a small clear glass figure first sculpted in clay and then cast in glass. He was part of a pair and his mate has been sold. He is about 9 pounds of glass and spent only 2 weeks in a kiln. He has been sold.
This shiny green casting weighed about 2 pounds and was filled with brilliant dichroic glass. It was one of the first castings and has been sold.
This sculpted and then cast man was the first figure casting I made. He weighed about 22 pounds and has been sold. He stayed in the kiln cooking for 3 weeks.
This was one of my first casting. I made four supermen for myself and our three daughters. These little guys are about 6 inches tall.
This is a stained glass pyramid sculpture which was made for an Art of Illumination display at the Cameron Museum. Each section can be rotated and every rotation changes the colors. This piece is located at theArtWorks.™
This is a stained glass and crystal sculpture made for an Art of Illumination display at the Cameron Museum. The title is "Windows-An Illusion of Privacy." This piece is located at theArtWorks.™.
This is a sculpture made from trash cans, Skratchworks clay, fused glass, acrylic crystals, and Dollar Store parts. It was made for an Art of Illumination display at the Cameron Museum. The title is "Windows-An Illusion of Privacy." This piece is located at theArtWorks.™.
This is a sculpture made from fused glass, stained glass, and hand made tiles. It was made for an Art of Illumination display at the Cameron Museum. This piece has found a home in Texas.
This is a life sized sculpture entitled "Covid Creature - Lunch 2020." If standing, he would be 6'5" tall. He weighs about 180 pounds. He is composed of a metal armature, styrofoam, aluminum foil, and Pal Tiya clay. He is adorned with fused glass virus pods. He was funded through an art grant and is a outside public art displayed at theArtWorks, 200 Willard St., Wilmington, NC.
This 15" high, 14" wide, bear is sculpted from construction foam covered with fiberglass mesh and thin set mortar. Much of his body is covered with fused glass pieces and some commercial tile.
This 14" cat is sculpted from construction foam covered with fiberglass mesh and thin set mortar. Much of her body is covered with both commercial tiles and fused glass. She is also adorned with some metal.
This work is sculpted from construction foam covered with fiberglass mesh and thin set mortar. It is called "Cathedral" and is about 22 inches high.
Traditional Direct Method
This work contains hand cut glass, commercial tiles, fused glass, and stones. It was displayed and sold at theArtWorks.™
This is a very large, 40" wide by 30" high mosaic consisting of fused glass, ceramic tiles, hand cut glass, stones, and rocks. The figures were hand cut and hand painted and then fused. This work is available at theArtWorks.
This mosaic consists of fused white, red, yellow, and orange glass against a background of cut blue glass pieces.
This 28" wide by 20" high mosaic is made from fused glass, cut glass, ceramic tile, and rocks. It is available at theArtWorks™ for $768. s.
This small, 11" by 14" mosaic was made from cut glass, commercial tile, and fused glass. It was sold to a wonderful customer at theArtWorks.™
This large 40" wide by 30" high mosaic was made from fused glass, cut glass, and commercial tile. The angel's face, hands, and foot are painted glass and fired in a kiln. This piece was sold to a lovely customer in Carolina Beach.
Multi-media
this work began with an acrylic painting of the Bellamy Mansion as the background. Overlaid onto the mansion were cracked glass, pearls, pieces of fused glass, and stones. It was finished with a layer of art resin. This work was done as an entry to an art show at the Bellamy Mansion and won First Place. This collage is unavailable.
This glass collage began with an alcohol ink background. A fused glass vase was added, along with commercial tiles on the bottom. The flowers are made from fused glass, glass strips, and copper washers. It is finished with a layer of art resin. This collage is sold.
This 24" x 24" glass collage is heavily sculpted with Skratchworks™ clay which is composed of crushed minerals, fabric, and proprietary ingredients. The background and colored areas are painted with acrylics. Fused dichroic glass lights up the sun. It is finished with a layer of art resin. Contact the artist to purchase.
This 24" x 24" glass collage is heavily sculpted with Skratchworks™ clay which is composed of crushed minerals, fabric, and proprietary ingredients. The background and colored areas are painted with acrylics. Fused dichroic glass lights up the sun and glide along the sea. It is finished with a layer of art resin. This work is sold.
This 24" x 30" glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. Fused dichroic glass flowers mingle with fused orange leaves and fused brown stems. Golden beads meander through the work. It is finished with a layer of art resin. This work is sold.
This 40" x 30" glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. It is heavily sculpted with Skratchworks™ clay which is composed of crushed minerals, fabric, and proprietary ingredients. Other components are made out of wood, stained glass jewels, and beads. It is finished with a layer of art resin. This is one of my favorites works and is entitled "View of the Universe from the Other Side."
This 30" x 30" glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. Fused dichroic glass trees, clay rocks and clouds, intermingle with detailed meandering designs. flowers mingle with fused orange leaves and fused brown stems. It is finished with a layer of art resin. This work has been sold.
This 30" x 40" glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. The planets and background components are sculpted with Skratchworks™ clay. Fused glass water droplets and dichroic glass pebbles drift across the scene. This work has been sold.
This 30" x 40" glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. The tiny houses are made from individual canvases hand painted with designs and embellished with fused glass, jewels, and gems. The center area is hand painted and covered with beads and stones. This work has been sold.
This glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. The flowers and stems are fused glass with copper washers and glass inserts. It had a companion piece in blue, but the blue one is sold. This pink one is now unavailable.
This glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. The fish and stems are made with fused glass. The fish feed on tiny brilliant pieces of dichroic glass. I have made multiple easy to maintain aquariums. All are sold, but I am happy to make more.
This glass collage began with the background painted with acrylics. The flowers are glass, the vase is glass, and there are multiple pieces of glass, clay, and beads adorning the border. This is part of the "Through a Royal Window" series.
Multi-media
This work is built on a DaVinci Liquid Art Panel and is composed of jewelry, beads, fused glass, and found objects. It displays how I think birds probably really look if only we could truly see them.
This bead mosaic is my first pretty accurate self portrait and is composed of a painted acrylic background, epoxy resin clay sculptured face, hair, and hands painted with acrylics, and then loads of beads. It shows how inspiration comes into our heads and out through first the brain and then our hands.
This 16" by 20" bead mosaic has loads of texture from the Skratchworks clay clouds covered with beads to the half ball wood "trees" covered with green beads. There are also lovely lapus lazuli shavings near the sky, and a red glass tile wall grouted with red glitter grout.
This is a little, 12" x 12" deeply sculpted work. The red melting fruit is made from fruit cups covered with Skratchworks clay and then red beads, the pot they grow from consists of three bead covered canvases. The background is sculpted with epoxy resin clay leaves and painted.
This 12" x 12" deeply sculpted work is the companion piece to the red one and composed the same way. I love the way everything looks like it is melting.
This work is composed of three stainless steel bowls held together with sculpted epoxy resin hands with lots of sculpted jewels. The interiors are gold painted paper. It is entitled "Offering" and shows that even when we think we are offering our best, the bowl can still be empty.
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