William A Washburn wrote:These are really nice. If it's OK with you I want my daughter (40 YO artist in Portland, OR) to see these. Would it be OK to give her
a link or JPG? She does everything including glass (electric kilns). Sometimes she gets commissions for leaded glass
(as in church widows) and they are beautiful. When she firt started out in Portland she went to work for a pot-glass manufacturer called
UroBoRos [http://www.uroboros.com/index.html]. My brother and I got a tour one night on the way to dinner. These folks would get
a pot and usually put in three colors, and mix carefully, (the mixers were the true artists), pour out just enough into a given roll press with
etched rolls to give the glass random texture so the kinda square 2/2 ft that came out was the right size and thickness.
I spent 1/2 hour going through the racks of cooled finished stock and almost bought a piece to put in a light box on my wall. It
was sky blue mixed with almost black blue and a nedium blue all with a beautiful texture in transparency and thickness.
With nobody having touched the blank it looked like a flowing river! Another had three reds and one orange and looked like fall leaves,
"again with no intervention". Those flat-looking leaded glass works you have seen made of transparent colored glass, when re-cut and
say a leaf replaced with this part number would simply make you breathless. Anyway, Katy does the kind of work you displayed and would
be really happy to see your work if that is OK with you.
Its currently on display at Bullseye Glass in Portland.
-Jerry