These vessels are made entirely of blown glass. They are made in limited series, with pieces within a series having similar colors and imagery. All designs and painting is done completely by hand, with no use of screens or stencils. While the lines and feel of these pieces is deceptively simple, the process by which they are made is quite complex. It involves five different stages of work, three of them with the piece in a hot, or molten state, and two while the piece is cold.
First, a multi-layered cylindrical form is blown, with a transparent color on the inside, and an opaque layer on the outside. The imagery is designed to play off the transparent versus the translucent qualities of glass, and is designed around abstractions of themes in nature. The outer layers of opaque glass are etched, while the piece is cold, to reveal the transparent color inside the piece and form the structure of the imagery.
The bright colors and textures on the exterior of the piece are produced by hand painting with ground glass in an oil medium, again while the piece is cold. The painted piece is then reheated in a kiln, picked up one more on a blow pipe, and cased in a layer of clear molten glass before being blown to its final form.
