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WORKSHOP OFFERING: Glass Painting: Medieval Fragments with a Modern Twist

WORKSHOP AT THE AGG CONFERENCE IN ST. AUGUSTINE FLORIDA
MAY 15, 2013
Linda Norris in a rare US appearance will lead a hands on glass painting workshop inspired by her collaborative commission with Rachael Phillips documented in the film above. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to study with this extraordinary artist.
Register online at: http://www.americanglassguild.org/

About the instructor:

Linda Norris has been a painter for over 30 years. She trained in a tight figurative tradition and
has since developed freer ways of working. In her painting she is interested in exploring
emotional aspects of landscape. She first came to glass six years ago, with a painter’s desire to move beyond paint. She has become drawn to explore the myriad possibilities that glass offers her to make site-specific work and to collaborate with other artists. As a material that is between liquid and solid in state, glass allows her to make work with a conceptual content that moves in the poetic space between word and object.

In recent years she has become increasingly interested in exploring in her work the ways in which objects and artwork serve to link us to others and to the past. She is especially interested in making site-specific work in relation to historic settings and stimuli, and in finding ways to make contemporary artwork using traditional methods. She has recently won the International Warm Glass Prize for her piece, ‘Her House is Air’.

With support from the Arts Council of Wales, she is currently developing a new body of sitespecific external glass work for a disused quarry; this work is based on the human shaping of the landscape of North Pembrokeshire.
www.linda-norris.com

AGG Member: Debora Coombs videos

This gives the appearance of a perfect day when everything goes right but I'm guessing it was slightly more work than it looks! Enjoy these elegant & inspirational videos from Deborah Coombs website:

Making Menfolk Part 1: stained glass by Debora Coombs from Debora Coombs Criddle on Vimeo.

Making Menfolk Part II : stained glass by Debora Coombs from Debora Coombs Criddle on Vimeo.

What do Jackson Pollock and Mel Howse have in common?

Today I stumbled upon this film of Jackson Pollock painting on glass from the 1950's. Some of his tools look remarkably like the metal screens promoted by Bullseye for "painting with light" using glass frits.

My friend Mel Howse laid pasta and dried beans on glass before spraying it with silver stain in her large commission for Sainsbury's Supermarket CMK which I saw her fabricating at Derix Glasstudios.

Bryan W. Lewis

Today while doing a Google image search for "the glass painter" I found the work of Bryan W. Lewis. Here's a description from his Bio:

My art career began at age six when, inspired by a colorful Bible story book, I began creating my own Biblical illustrations. At age ten, my father introduced me to stained glass as a hobby. Throughout high school I was a member of The National Art Honor Society and it was then I began my own small stained glass business.

While in college I excelled in figure drawing and, during my third year, I began to explore stained glass painting. I have been painting stained glass professionally ever since.

My work has been featured in Stained Glass Quarterly, Guitar Magazine, The Kansas City Star, television news coverage and other media.

You can visit his website here: http://www.theglasspainter.com/