Looking back, my first steps toward a life working with glass were taken on a trail in a Caribbean rainforest. The year was 1994 and I had hiked up a small trail toward the sound of moving water. Before me stood a waterfall, a hundred feet high, descending through the forest, ferns, and cliffs. It was a cascade from a painted dream, and I was mesmerized. I watched how the water … [Read more...]
Peter Avdoulos
Peter George Avdoulos Biography-short Peter George Avdoulos is a native San Franciscan self taught artist . Recognition of his inclination towards art from his parents and family was encouraged as he gravitated towards drawing from an early age, continually drawing and then painting with enamels, acrylics and oils. He … [Read more...]
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky born name Hovhannes Ayvazovski; born 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900 deceased) was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, Aivazovsky was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Following his education at … [Read more...]
Susan Bahary
Working in acrylic and bronze, Susan Bahary is a sculptor in representational and abstract styles of animal and human subjects, including life-size sculptures, private commissions, and commissioned public-monument works. A specialty is equine and canine subjects, and in this area she has special knowledge of anatomy from her years as a breeder and exhibitor of champion … [Read more...]
Joel Bless
Joel’s lifelong passion for glassblowing began in his college days at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It was the early 1970’s and the school had just opened its School of American Craftsmen’s glassblowing program. Following these initial introductions, Joel went on to teach himself the craft and by the late 1970's had built his own hot shop. It was at this time that he … [Read more...]