Schilling Glass
The unique accent lamps in my Brilliance category share one thing in common. Visually, they are compelling. Your eye is pulled to them. As the creator, I began each lamp with a concept that I want to actualize in my unique medium. When that concept emerges from the glass, I want to look at it over and over. They just knock me out.
Unique Accent Lamps That Instantly Command Attention
Every one of our unique accent lamps begins with a moment, an image, a feeling, a scene that I can’t stop seeing. Within the first moments of viewing, the eye is drawn in and refuses to let go. These lamps aren’t designed to blend quietly into a room; they are meant to be noticed, revisited, and admired again and again.
I work in glass because it never stands still. As light moves, the imagery transforms. That constant motion is what keeps me engaged as a creator.
Brilliance Glass Lamp Series Inspired by Visual Impact
The Brilliance glass lamp series is where a concept simply emerges. Each piece starts without rigid sketches. Instead, I allow the concept to guide the outcome as layers of color interact, overlap, and evolve during the firing process.
In the early stages of creation, the composition is a mere suggestion. Clear glass plays a vital role here, without edges; images bend, recombine, and shift depending on the viewing angle and the light source. This fluidity is what gives the series its signature depth and dimensionality.
Are Brilliance Custom Art Glass Lamp Captivating?
A Brilliance custom art glass lamp isn’t produced; it’s discovered. Once the image begins to emerge, my goal becomes simple: create something I want to look at over and over.
What makes each lamp impossible to replicate?
Within the second phase of glazing, powder pigments are electrostatically applied to cylindrical glass. No paints. No liquids. Each color has its own trajectory, its own firing cycle, and its own interaction with the layers surrounding it. As new colors are added, previous layers are carefully protected using heat-resistant tape.
This process ensures that every lamp is a true one-of-one.
Brilliance Art Glass Lamp Series: Spotlight on Ginkgo-Sun
The Brilliance art glass lamp series includes Ginkgo-Sun, priced at $325.00, a piece that emerged organically from several prior works.
A white mist blankets a still lake. You view it through a drapery of ginkgo leaves. They are glazed in autumn tones including a combination of two glaze powders, Spanish Fly and Orange Peel. A crimson sun streaked with clouds sets behind distant mountains. Seven separate glaze colors are used to build this scene, each heat-cured individually.
Lit from below with an LED base, the lamp projects a shifting tapestry of color and shadow that evolves throughout the day.
At Schilling Glass®, we use techniques I developed personally to create multi-dimensional accent lamps that cannot be duplicated.
Unique Accent Lamps Designed to Be Looked At Again and Again
Our unique accent lamps share one defining aspect: they stop people in their tracks. The moment light passes through the lampk, something clicks emotionally and visually. I begin each lamp with a concept I want to bring into the world, but I allow the glass to have the final say.
When I can’t stop staring at, I know it’s finished.
Brilliance Glass Lamp Series: Where Glass Becomes a Display
The Brilliance glass lamp series exists at the intersection of control and surprise. Early in the process, clear glass establishes the foundation. The lack of edges on a cylinder allows images to curve, stretch, and merge.
In the second stage of glazing, colors begin to interact in unexpected ways. This transformation is essential. The lamp isn’t static; it’s alive with movement, depth, and changing perspective.
Brilliance Custom Art Glass Lamp: How Is Each Piece Created?
A Brilliance custom art glass lamp is formed through a meticulous, multi-stage process that values concentration over speed. I’ve never learned patience. And don’t expect to.
Why does the process matter so much?
Powdered material glazes are applied using a compressor and an electrostatic charge. No liquid mediums. No brushes. Each color is heat-cured separately, ensuring purity and dimensional integrity. As new overlays of glaze are introduced, prior ones are carefully masked and protected.
Imagery is seduced onto the surface during this process. Nothing is forced.
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Among the most daring challenge I’ve undertaken is creating a portrait of a sitting model on a glass lamp. I converted her photo first into a line drawing. From there, I used seven separate powder glazes to create this bold portrait. The image is composed in the constructionist tradition.
Now displayed in the WOMAN – 2026 6th Juried Annual Exhibition
4 X 10 In.
Leaves of this tree contain eucalypti oil. This oil is used for medicinal purposes, including for mental clarity. This lamp attempts to portray a simple way to prove this to yourself, by just gazing at the moon. If you stand looking up through a eucalyptus tree at a full moon, many of the leaves reflect a silver light. Like a Christmas tree with silver bulbs, many leaves will stand out amongst their darkened neighbors and shimmer brightly.
On this lamp, the leaves are rendered in either Emperor’s Gold with a translucent red heart, or lavender with a Silver central vein. Scene from the reverse side these leaves shimmer in a bold red and silver. The leaves appear to be fish swimming in a moonlit pond.
SOLD
4 X 10 In.
A white mist blankets a lake. You are gazing at it through a drapery of ginkgo leaves in fall colors of golden brown and yellows . The name of these colors: “Spanish Fly” and “Orange peel”. Beyond, a crimson sun streaked with clouds sets over a distant mountain range. Seven separate glaze colors are used to depict this setting. The composition simply emerged from working on several of my prior lamps.
SOLD
4 X 10 In.
There is a technique used in raku pottery. On a very hot clay surface, natural horse tail hairs are instantly transformed into vibrant wriggles. The results I wanted. In raku, they are working at around 1800 degrees F. I only reach about 400 degrees, yet. Maybe with a torch I can combine this with my glazed powder. This glass lamp opened the door. On a fire cracker colored background, I’ve created a vivid and tactile black spider’s web. It spans from one end in black while the other is in bright gold.
2.5 X 10 In.
The composition for this unique lamp is inspired by a B & W photo. The torso of a women in profile gazes down at a rose in her hand. She’s lit from behind with careful attention to detail and becomes a single white line drawn against a deep black background that’s dusted with multicolored specks. She comes to life in striking vividness. On this art glass lamp, the line is clear glass echoing a silvertone powder material line.
On the back of the lamp, is a re-composition of the rose. It is rendered in glossy orange and floats above an abstract cloud in two separate translucent red colors.
4 X 10 In.
On a glass cylinder, can two figures be transformed into one? On this art glass lamp, a woman and her cat play ”peek-a-boo, I see you.” As you rotate this lamp, the cat comes to nuzzle her chin. From a black cloud of hair at the top, her face is suspended. While from the black cloud circling base, the cat’s head emerges. Las Vegas Nights, the name for this color, units these two figures. One of my favorite colors, this black becomes luminous. It contains flecks that change color across the rainbow of as the light angle shifts.
Silvertone highlights the Cat’s whiskers and features. This creates a striking depiction of the cat’s head. Especially when viewed from within the cylinder when lit by the LED. Translucent Soft Candy Red sparkle in the cat’s collar and the hair brooch above her left cheek along with the art nouveau doodles the decorate the field.
4 X 10 In.
SOLD
This unique art glass lamp portrays a bouquet of Red Daisies set against a solid black background. The petals are in a translucent Soft Candy Red. The stems are in silver paired with a clear glass line. Given the solid black ground, this glass art lamp broadcasts a wonderland of red and rainbow colors on any nearby surface.
FOUND A NEW HOME
2.5 X 10 In.
This unique art glass lamp portrays the ancient Greek goddess Athena: goddess of wisdom, warfare and handicraft. Athena is the sister to Persephone. She gazes at you from this lamp with an alluring image of elegance and intrigue. Athena’s commanding expression changes it’s composition with differing angles of viewing. Her tresses encircle this lamp. Lit by the sun while shaded on the underside, her hair is adorned with gold jewelry and festooned with flowers shown in three translucent colors.
4 X 10 In.
Persephone emerged as I added flowers to curls encircling the surface of a glass cylinder. As the queen of the underworld, she regulates the seasons on earth’s surface and thus the life and death of all vegetation. In the spring, plants sprout from the soil to live and grow. In the fall, they die and sink down in death.
4 X 10 In.
Contemplation is the mood expressed by “The Sisters”. Drawn in single lines, portraits of two women are arrayed on either side. One portrait is of translucent red, the other of teal. Their faces float above a bubbly base of firecracker red and gold. This stunning tableau displays with captivating interplay.
4 X 10 In.
Grape clusters in the still life paintings of William J. McCluskey inspired the design of this lamp. A gold vine with lavender clusters and teal leaves encircles the cylinder, while tendrils float into a shimmering orange field. This lamp expresses the bounty of the natural world.
4 X 10 In.
Inspired by the embroidery on a Japanese kimono, this lamp captures a natural vibrancy. Against a field of dark blue over a pale green base, petals from a cherry tree drift down and carpet the ground. The blossoms and petals are pale pink while the branches and stems are a silver tone. When lit from within, the lamp projects the swirl of petals as a soft pink cloud.
4 X 10 In.
Inspired by the shades and colors found on raku pottery, I explored the limitations of powder glaze for my creations on glass. Results display a dynamic, even emotional topography. Topped with a transparent gold cloud, over a red underlayer, Volcano is glazed in glossy black flecked with metallic specks. With splotches in clear glass and bold red dashes Volcano projects an alien tapestry.
4 X 10 In.
The unique accent lamps in my Brilliance category share one thing in common. Visually, they are compelling. Your eye is pulled to them. As the creator, I began each lamp with a concept that I want to actualize in my unique medium. When that concept emerges from the glass, I want to look at it over and over. They just knock me out.
Unique Accent Lamps That Instantly Command Attention
Every one of our unique accent lamps begins with a moment, an image, a feeling, a scene that I can’t stop seeing. Within the first moments of viewing, the eye is drawn in and refuses to let go. These lamps aren’t designed to blend quietly into a room; they are meant to be noticed, revisited, and admired again and again.
I work in glass because it never stands still. As light moves, the imagery transforms. That constant motion is what keeps me engaged as a creator.
Brilliance Glass Lamp Series Inspired by Visual Impact
The Brilliance glass lamp series is where a concept simply emerges. Each piece starts without rigid sketches. Instead, I allow the concept to guide the outcome as layers of color interact, overlap, and evolve during the firing process.
In the early stages of creation, the composition is a mere suggestion. Clear glass plays a vital role here, without edges; images bend, recombine, and shift depending on the viewing angle and the light source. This fluidity is what gives the series its signature depth and dimensionality.
Are Brilliance Custom Art Glass Lamp Captivating?
A Brilliance custom art glass lamp isn’t produced; it’s discovered. Once the image begins to emerge, my goal becomes simple: create something I want to look at over and over.
What makes each lamp impossible to replicate?
Within the second phase of glazing, powder pigments are electrostatically applied to cylindrical glass. No paints. No liquids. Each color has its own trajectory, its own firing cycle, and its own interaction with the layers surrounding it. As new colors are added, previous layers are carefully protected using heat-resistant tape.
This process ensures that every lamp is a true one-of-one.
Brilliance Art Glass Lamp Series: Spotlight on Ginkgo-Sun
The Brilliance art glass lamp series includes Ginkgo-Sun, priced at $325.00, a piece that emerged organically from several prior works.
A white mist blankets a still lake. You view it through a drapery of ginkgo leaves. They are glazed in autumn tones including a combination of two glaze powders, Spanish Fly and Orange Peel. A crimson sun streaked with clouds sets behind distant mountains. Seven separate glaze colors are used to build this scene, each heat-cured individually.
Lit from below with an LED base, the lamp projects a shifting tapestry of color and shadow that evolves throughout the day.
At Schilling Glass®, we use techniques I developed personally to create multi-dimensional accent lamps that cannot be duplicated.
Unique Accent Lamps Designed to Be Looked At Again and Again
Our unique accent lamps share one defining aspect: they stop people in their tracks. The moment light passes through the lampk, something clicks emotionally and visually. I begin each lamp with a concept I want to bring into the world, but I allow the glass to have the final say.
When I can’t stop staring at, I know it’s finished.
Brilliance Glass Lamp Series: Where Glass Becomes a Display
The Brilliance glass lamp series exists at the intersection of control and surprise. Early in the process, clear glass establishes the foundation. The lack of edges on a cylinder allows images to curve, stretch, and merge.
In the second stage of glazing, colors begin to interact in unexpected ways. This transformation is essential. The lamp isn’t static; it’s alive with movement, depth, and changing perspective.
Brilliance Custom Art Glass Lamp: How Is Each Piece Created?
A Brilliance custom art glass lamp is formed through a meticulous, multi-stage process that values concentration over speed. I’ve never learned patience. And don’t expect to.
Why does the process matter so much?
Powdered material glazes are applied using a compressor and an electrostatic charge. No liquid mediums. No brushes. Each color is heat-cured separately, ensuring purity and dimensional integrity. As new overlays of glaze are introduced, prior ones are carefully masked and protected.
Imagery is seduced onto the surface during this process. Nothing is forced.
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