Fashion – Salt Lake City
I enjoy working with glass because I’ll think that I’ll never live long enough to learn it all. With glass art, there’s always something new. I also enjoy glass because it’s challenging—it’s not something I get right the first time, so it makes me keep coming back. I derive inspiration for my glass art everywhere. Inspiration comes from other artists, from pictures, from patterns in carpets, just from everywhere.
I joke that I’m a rodent or magpie—if something is shiny or sparkly, I grab for it! So that’s what often shows up in my work. Blue is my favorite color and the qualities I appreciate in it are that it’s calming and deep, and I’ve always been thrilled with water. I am always happy with work that has depth.
When people see my work and decide to purchase it, I think that they have given me the ultimate compliment—the feedback that they really liked it enough to want to take it home. Especially in this economy, for someone to buy my work or take a glass class from me, that’s a high compliment.