Fused glass paintings, mounted on brushed aluminum and heated copper

Capturing moments…moments found soaring above the mountain peaks, standing on the edge of the cliff , watching awestruck as the dipping sun throws color across the sky, feeling  deep within the wind of freedom and the power of the breaking wave and singing from the soul. Those glorious moments when your breath catches and your chest expands and those quiet moments when your spirit rests in a warm gratitude and a deep peace.  These are the moments that sustain and the work of capturing them in glass is the poetry of life and of rebirth. It is the process of taking a blank colorless panel, adding layers and layers of dull powders, mixing, moving and shaping them, dropping in broken shards, and then firing the whole collage to near the melting point.  Always near, near enough to fuse, but never to completely melt.  From the intense heat comes a beautifully faceted, brilliantly colored whole – a captured moment. This is my work and in it is found my gratitude to the Creator, for the moments, for the fire and for the re-created whole.