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• Blockhead Lamp

  The Blockhead Lamp won the Glass Art Society 1990 convention top award—"Least Likely to Sell in a Gallery"—chosen by jurors and outstanding artist duo Komar and Melamid.

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• Mask

  The mask attached to a hard hat head-size adjusting mechanism

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• Wineglasses

  I no longer make the wineglasses—production ceased in 1990

  I attended the Pilchuck Glass School, enrolled in a course that covered glass fusing with Klaus Moje and lustre painting on glass with Isgard Moje-Wohlgemuth.

  I wasn't familiar with glass lustres, which are a very fluid suspension of metallic oxides which can render quite pure colors in glass when fire in a kiln. I developed a line of wineglasses that I sold through galleries and gift shops through the 1980's.

  This was my best-selling design

  The basic techniques involved applying swatches of lustre freehand, using a banding wheel, a small spinning platform on which a wineglass could be centered for application of the lustre in-the-round, and masking and sandblasting to define areas of transparent color.

  Photo Credit: George Filgate

  "Stripes and Bubbles" employed a general color for the various glasses, and then fine stripes that were set in a separate kiln firing. The wide center band used a "wet on wet" technique, where a basically clear "mother of pearl" lustre paint was applied, and while wet point of other lustre colors were touched to the wet base and a nice natural dispersion occurred.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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• Bowls

  Bowls

  

  My bowls are of fused glass—so pieces and layers of glass melted together in a kiln—and then "slumped" or "kiln-formed" through ring-molds in the kiln where they flow downward to a kiln shelf below.

  

  

  For the circles, I fused together random bunches of colored glass and then sliced them with a lapidary saw

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