Contemporary Art Glass
| Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, That is the sum of all wisdom. |
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| Residence Nellysford, VA |
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| A large window over a Jacques. With the pileated woodpecker as our focal point, we designed a tree that is overgrown and untrained, giving us a three dimensional effect. This created interest in the large area around the woodpecter. The iridized glass picked up on the colors in the stone which surrounded it. | |
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| Residence Charlottesville, VA |
Residence Midlothian, VA |
| Iridized "turtle back jewels" first used by Tiffany surrounded by iridized stained glass. Plays beautifully with reflected light. | One of our contemporary beveled glass windows with varous beveling techniques on different thicknesses and textures of glass. The lines in the window pick up on the lines and proportions in the room. |
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| St. Peter's Baptist Church Richmond, VA |
Residence Nellysford, VA |
This window was created for the church choir's practice room. Our goal was to give a windowless room a bit of the spirit to begin the early morning rehearsal. |
A window for over the entryway of a contemporary home. Varying lavenders picked up on the colors from the stone fireplace. The center was embellished with thin translucent glass we created by our flame working process to enhance the sun's effect. Folding the yellow border around the window gave us an interesting alternative to a simple straight border. |
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| Residence Corolla, VA |
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| Fused Glass: By cutting the glass slightly larger than the pattern we can overlap the edges and fuse the glass together in our kilns. Instead of a piece of lead holding the glass together, there is a seam of glass that catches the light and highlights the design. As the sun moves, the light moves from one seam to another, bringing the window to life. We created eight windows like this for a beach home's kitchen in Corolla, North Carolina. | |
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| Residence Richmond, VA |
Residence Richmond, VA |
What a fun window. It started out as a bear's head centered in a traditional window. Evolving through our exchange of ideas we brought this concept to life with the idea of dancing bears. Our client called one day to see how the project was going and said "are they?" as I responded "Yes, they're in Love". |
After hand beveling each piece of glass we created an "antique" mirror effect by contaminating sliver nitrate and silvering the back side of the glass. Then we assembled with our sculpturing technique and applyed a patina for a natural look. With sconces on each side, the light reflects on the bevels as one moves down the hallway. |
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| Residence Amherst, VA |
Residence Richmond, VA |
To create the effect of this landscape, we used various mediums from fine to corse to achieve the shading we needed to give this piece depth. The lettering was cut mechanically and the art work hand crafted. A nice combination in this comission. |
One of our contemporary windows where we beveled various angles on different thicknesses of glass. Not symmetrical, but balanced, and with lines that reach out into the window giving an interesting and inviting feel to this traditional entryway. |
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| Residence Charlottesville, VA |
Residence White Hall, VA |
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| A beautiful example of two old glass working processes used in a contemporary way. Glue chipping and glass beveling were both developed around 1900. By beveling on our 1915 Henry Lang machinery and using animal glue we are able to carry on these traditions in our artist studio today. | A pair of sidelights created for a couple who owns a vineyward. Here we wanted to create the effect of ice on early morning grape vines in the "dead" of winter. Hand beveling glass on our old machinery gave us the freedom to create steep, varying bevels and sculpting the vines gave them a life-like appearance. A great deal of effort went into the design to achieve the three deminsional efect with the end of the growing season branches. | |
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| Business Richmond, VA |
Residence Buckingham, VA |
| A colorful and playful stained, beleved, and sculptured window for a traditional entryway. One of a pair, these windows give an eclectic look to the foyer. | The iridized glass in this window blended beautifully with the surrounding colors. The delicate beveling in the tops of the trees comes alive with the lights behind them. |
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| Residence Midlothian, VA |
Residence Richmond, VA |
| A landing window in a contemporary home. Glass beveling, carving, and sculpturing were used to create a one of a kind, special effect. | The couple I worked with wanted a Caribbean effect. I used glass with striations to give the illusion of heat waves and crystal lilies for an exotic look. |
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| Study in our Studio Bremo Bluff, VA |
Residence Charlottesville, VA |
| By cutting strips of glass from our stock we are able to work the glass over a flame. This gives us the freedom to manipulate the hot glass into shapes and stretch it in order to vary and enhance its translucency. | A skylight created with beveled glass, sculpturing, and flame working. The white dot is the moon passing through the tree tops. |
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| "First Frost" In a series of collections |
Residence Lovingston, VA |
| One in a series of windows we created to simulate the last few days of fall in the vineyard. Beveling stained glass, fusing other portions, and sculpturing the solder for depth, we were able to bring out the true character of the piece. | Created for a couple who own an orchard, the only requirement they gave me was that it had to have an apple in it. I created an apple about the size of a 50 cent piece by flame working glass and attaching it to this window with the wintry branch. We call it "The Last Apple" |
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| Residence Richmond, VA |
Tobacco Company Richmond, VA |
| By adhering stained glass to the back of our bevels we were able to give a jewel like effect to the background of this textured stained glass entryway. The shadowing, created by the textures of the glass, makes this entryway especially interesting as one moves about the home. | A wall of silver mirror and black glass, 22 feet by 9 feet tall, created for the Tobacco Club. The play of lights, reflecting colors, and the clean cut edges of glass enhance the design, making this one of our more unique public commisions. |
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| Residence Richmond, VA |
Residence Richmond, VA |
| The small squares at the bottom of black beveled glass embelished the curtins above and still gave our client their view over the kitchen sink. | A quilt influenced design for a series of doors into a "South West" room. We used many different colors of European hand-blown glass, balanced and coordinated, to achieve the unique look our client was seeking. |
