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    Prismatic Powders

    This lamp celebrates my most essential supplier, Precision Powders (PP).  Their products, fusion-bond powder coating, happen to be foundational to what I create. Instead of liquid paint, these dry powders glaze under heat. PP offers a huge variety of colors and finishes. Without first creating and perfecting my own techniques for applying powder material onto glass, I could not create any of my lamps and the projections they display.

    Here, I composed twigs of ginkgo leaves encircling the lamp. This arrangement enabled me to display a small selection of PP colors. There are nine separate powder colors displayed. Also, on several leave, there’s a topping gloss layer.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Art glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying front view.Art glass lamp lit by the LED shown in three stages of rotation arranged in a triptych.

    Sky Divers

    $385.00

    A lamp with an image that relates to an individual sports athletic event: A friend challenged me. A group of sky divers floated into my imagination. Now the fun started. On the face of my lamp, they fall through a particolored hole in the sky. Below, on the back face of my lamp, is a landing zone. Agricultural fields bounded by dark hills on the left and on the horizon, a slender river.

    This art glass lamp has seven different layers of powder coated glaze.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Art glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying front view.Unique art glass Lamp shown lit only by overcast full sun, rear view.

    Tango

    $385.00

    Dance is all motion and posture. In the tango, in an instant both dancers freeze into a striking pose where one embraces the other. On this unique art glass lamp that’s all here. From one viewing, her head rests on his shoulder. From another, he dives under their uplifted arms. Creating this lamp was play day for me. From the first glazed outline in black to the last float in white at the bottom, this glass lamp was a delight at every gaze.

    Her dress has three separate glaze layers. Under her burgundy velvet is a gold primary layer. It glimmers and sparkles yet, when she’s posed under their uplifted arms, her costume transforms into a gold gown with a burgundy front. The top layer is a clear gloss with a rainbow glitter.

    4 X 10 In.

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    A Rose

    $325.00

    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.

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    Peek-A-Boo

    sOLD

    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

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    Red Daises

    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.

  • Unique art glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Unique art glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.

    Athena

    $325.00

    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.

  • Lamp shown under flood light displaying face view of glass cylinder.Shown on a display shelf with its LED illuminated lamp displays brilliant patterns of light.

    Blue Bird

    $325.00

    This striking blue bird is partially hidden by the sandy background. It  perches amongst plum blossoms in pink and translucent, soft candy red. The promise of spring in full splendor is displayed in this simple tableau.

    4 X 10 In.

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    Frog Full of Kids

    $325.00

    On this unique glass art lamp I reveal the energy source that makes frogs suddenly leap and croak ’till dawn. When kids fly around, frogs snatch them out of air like bugs. So frogs are bulging with the exuberance of kids at play.  Bight orange eyes bulge above the frog’s body which is splashed in colors of tan, lime and forest green.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Art Glass Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view. Notice striking overlap between images displayed on front and rear.

    Persephone

    $325.00

    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.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Shown under spot light at upper left, lamp displays brilliant projected color and shadow patterns. Highlighted are displays of patterns through clear glass.

    Red Bird

    $325.00

    In this powder coated glazed glass art lamp, a striking bird perches in a grape arbor. His vivid red back feathers complement his black hood. long tail feathers detailed in clear glass accentuate this basic form. the dangling clusters of blue grapes combined with the watchful eye of the bird convey the natural harmony of a grape vine ripe for harvest.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Shown under spot light at upper left, lamp displays brilliant projected color and shadow patterns. Highlighted are displays of patterns through clear glass.

    On the Rocks

    $225.00

    Waves crashing on coastal rocks. White spumes fountain into a  pale blue sky above the horizon of a breaking wave. In shades of rust, orange, and tan, jagged rocks ascend through the surf. At the base, a wave froths onto a shallow splinter of sand.

    4 X 10 In.

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    Cat Full of Fish

    $325.00

    Who would come up with this? At Bonita Canyon grade school, awards are given for art and my seven year old took a prize. The composition on Cat Full of Fish is a re-rendering.  I used seven separate layers of powder glaze. One for each color. All the fish are in clear glass. Below a deep blue rim filled of clear glass bubbles, now the cat appears inside an aquarium, staring out at us.

    4 X 10 In.

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    Sisters

    $225.00

    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.

  • Lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Flood lit views of lamp in three stages of rotation are arranged in a triptych.

    Red Head

    $225.00

    For this unique art glass lamp, the work of Gustov Klimt inspired this pose of a woman draped in an elaborately decorated head scarf. Her rusty red hair is ornamented with gold accessories and entwines with a scarf. Combined with its dramatic projected images, this lamp exudes a blend of elegance and contemplation.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Shown on a display shelf with its LED illuminated, lamp displays brilliant patterns of light.

    Delicious

    $175.00

    The playful projections of a disco mirror ball inspired Delicious. Bands of firecracker red and silver flow through a scramble of colored dots and clear glass eyelets. Gazing through the eyelets reveals the silvery inner surface. This lamp embodies the spirit of dancing lights.

    4 X 10 In.