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Artist Statement:<\/p>\n
I love color. As a child, my greatest joy was a new box of crayons.\u00a0 If given money as a gift, I\u2019d go to the \u201cFive and Dime\u201d store and buy the biggest box they had (48 in those days).\u00a0 As soon as I got home, I\u2019d sit on the floor and arrange the colors along the color spectrum choosing my favorites (periwinkle and sea foam).\u00a0 The boring blacks, whites, grays and browns were often relegated to a spot under a chair where my mother must have found them when she vacuumed.<\/p>\n
Although my father did stained-glass and I had dabbled with it, that was not my entr\u00e9e to fused glass.\u00a0 Making complex polymer clay beads led to making jewelry, which led to buying glass and metal beads, which subsequently led to the discovery of torchworked beads.\u00a0 My friend Dinah Ihle (a founding member of the Guild) and I took our first beadmaking class, and a new passion was born.\u00a0 Adding fused glass to torchwork was a natural transition\u2014or, more accurately, a complementary development. When I integrated torchworked elements into fused pieces, I discovered new horizons of creative design.<\/p>\n
My big box of crayons became a room full of glass still sorted along the color spectrum.\u00a0 The coloring book was replaced by torches and kilns.\u00a0 Glass is rich with creative opportunities both reflecting and transmitting color, and it can be layered to create art in three dimensions.\u00a0 As a child, I always colored within the lines, and, as a glass artist, I am drawn to complex designs requiring precision. I always push the limits of my technical skills to new levels of creativity, and my love of color grows with each design and every fabrication.<\/p>\n
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