ACGA ARTIST

My functional artworks are directly influenced by all the women artisans in my family. Using yarn, fabric and threads they created out of necessity as well as out of a desire for artistic expression. I worked alongside them and learned to translate my own ideas into finished pieces.
Today I use colored strings of glass, glass powders and sheets of glass as my yarns, thread and fabric. With these elements I explore new ways to communicate and share what I learned from these women. My wall panels are glass 'paintings' on a glass substrate which has been fired and sandblasted before applying glass powders and frits. I make stencils over which I sift the powders and frit to create three dimensional soft contours on my images.