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My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
Once I started painting, my passion was to paint pets, portraits and seascapes. I took classes from many instructors in order to develop my own style. When Fused Glass was introduced to me, I married my love of those pets, portraits and seascapes with the glass, and I found ways to paint on the glass using techniques like etching, painting and fusing the art glass. I still take classes all the time to learn new ways to express my art and to find new ideas to teach my students.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
For my Fused Glass, the medium is Enamel Paint made from finely ground glass and mixed with a binder. Some glass pieces also have inclusions such as Dichroic pieces, decals, carvings, stampings, and monoprinting. Some glass is etched. It is fired for hours in an extremely high temperature glass kiln, sometimes more than once. No two pieces are alike.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
Most of my pieces start out as recycled glass. Old picture frame glass and window glass are transformed into useful and beautiful pieces of art. My love of the ocean shows up as beautiful underwater scenes. Animals, both wild and domestic, are a passion of mine. I am forever grateful to the many photographers who share their photos on Facebook for artists like me to paint.