Comments on: This Is Not a Jellyfish

By: Denita TwoDragons

Denita TwoDragons — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:49:58 +0000

Weird…

Anyhoo, I was just mentioning that I wish Dougall was my neighbor, I’d serve him a lifetime supply of pie to learn the craft…I also expressed my enthusiasm for Chihuly’s work even though he’s only directing his apprentices now (with only one eye, no depth perception makes glassblowing a hazardous undertaking)…and I was also wondering if anyone here is familiar with Paul Stankard’s work?

http://www.paulstankard.com/

If you like stuff along these lines, you’ll love Paul’s glassworks as well!

–TwoDragons

By: Denita TwoDragons

Denita TwoDragons — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:46:27 +0000

Hmmm…comments aren’t working…

testing…testing…

–TwoDragons

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:16:51 +0000

I remember Chihuly’s exhibit – it passed through St. Louis this summer – and it was cool, but this looks incredible! I love it when art and nature mingle, for the benefit of both.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:15:19 +0000

Also check out the Blaschka's (a father and son team, actually) glass flower exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

By: gail

gail — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:29:27 +0000

With the popularity of Dale Chihuly, there's got to be an enormous potential market. These guys were artistically way ahead of their time.

By: Dougall

Dougall — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:06:38 +0000

I too have seen photos of the great naturalist glassblowers of the past, and many of the methods they spent a lifetime developing died with them. The Welsh master glassblower who trained me in the seventies was well aware of this, and of the European tradition of ‘secret’ methods, never shared except with your own apprentice.

He told me then that the art was dying out, and to share freely what I knew and learned. I’ve tried to do this, and have always been happy to do so. I have just started my second class for art glass making (artistic glass beads) and I am delighted with the enthusiasm and skill of my students.

I’m working towards a local ‘art glass’ community, and I believe it is going to happen.
- Dougall

By: Denita TwoDragons

Denita TwoDragons — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:17:58 +0000

I’ve seen other pictures of their work…they’re so amazingly lifelike, you expect them to drift right out of the museum. I’d be thrilled to learn how they did such wondrous techniques, but IIRC they never shared their secret, and the gift died with them. But I might be thinking of someone else…

–TwoDragons