keep on turning
..me, the world and the glass!!
If it´s turning the blowingpipe the engravingstone on the cold glass or traveling for experiencing new glass.
Discovering:
I always used to work with my hands but no other material like wood or ceramics can be as flexible as glass!
I love coincidence in the making progress. That gives total freedom,
captured in the moment that the glass gets cold.
Even the heat and small accidents with the hot material can´t keep me away from working,
because once touched the fluid it´s impossible to stop!
The intensive work needs a lot of experience, in the best case over 10 years.
Temperature, tools, tensions, controlling both hands in different directions and all traditional ways of handling the pipe without touching the glass needs a lot of knowledge that is given by the masters of glassblowing.
So there is still a lot to learn and share to keep the glass turning!!
What I experienced:
..that already brought me to a lot of places all around Europe.
Of course Sweden where my glassmakingroots are from, challenged me to practice one year wineglassblowing i ´Glasriket´, Småland, where I experienced a lot of factorywork and swedish design.
That was after I finished my education in Rheinbach, Germany.
These three years where mostly about traditional engraving by diamond and stonewheels,
but also cutting, fusing, stained glass (church windows) and many more techniques, except glassblowing.
But Internships and exchanges brought me to glassstudios in Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium,
Holland and Bayern even before I found work in the Glascenter Leerdam, NL.
...That should bring me deeper into glassblowingkulture than I ever thought...
Not just working with unique glassobjects, often designed by great international artists,
getting new contacts around the glassblowerworld
-also the living with different glassblowercultures gave big impression on me.
The stories about glassblowerlifestyle and all the knowledge that you cannot find in books is shared from one generation to the other and often celebrated with friends and good food.
And as if this was not enough, even my holidaytrips always end up visiting e.g. hotshops in Denmark or glasscenter like Nový Bor, CZ.
Right now you can find me developing glass at the glastower in Gernheim, Germany.
So the work with this fascinating, moving, freezing, fragile material makes addictive.
And even if there is so much produced in glass already, there is still a lot to discover!!
10 August 2011
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..that already brought me to a lot of places all around Europe.
Of course Sweden where my glassmakingroots are from, challenged me to practice one year wineglassblowing i ´Glasriket´, Småland, where I experienced a lot of factorywork and swedish design.
That was after I finished my education in Rheinbach, Germany.
These three years where mostly about traditional engraving by diamond and stonewheels,
but also cutting, fusing, stained glass (church windows) and many more techniques, except glassblowing.
But Internships and exchanges brought me to glassstudios in Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium,
Holland and Bayern even before I found work in the Glascenter Leerdam, NL.
...That should bring me deeper into glassblowingkulture than I ever thought...
Not just working with unique glassobjects, often designed by great international artists,
getting new contacts around the glassblowerworld
-also the living with different glassblowercultures gave big impression on me.
The stories about glassblowerlifestyle and all the knowledge that you cannot find in books is shared from one generation to the other and often celebrated with friends and good food.
And as if this was not enough, even my holidaytrips always end up visiting e.g. hotshops in Denmark or glasscenter like Nový Bor, CZ.
Right now you can find me developing glass at the glastower in Gernheim, Germany.
So the work with this fascinating, moving, freezing, fragile material makes addictive.
And even if there is so much produced in glass already, there is still a lot to discover!!
Of course Sweden where my glassmakingroots are from, challenged me to practice one year wineglassblowing i ´Glasriket´, Småland, where I experienced a lot of factorywork and swedish design.
That was after I finished my education in Rheinbach, Germany.
These three years where mostly about traditional engraving by diamond and stonewheels,
but also cutting, fusing, stained glass (church windows) and many more techniques, except glassblowing.
But Internships and exchanges brought me to glassstudios in Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium,
Holland and Bayern even before I found work in the Glascenter Leerdam, NL.
...That should bring me deeper into glassblowingkulture than I ever thought...
Not just working with unique glassobjects, often designed by great international artists,
getting new contacts around the glassblowerworld
-also the living with different glassblowercultures gave big impression on me.
The stories about glassblowerlifestyle and all the knowledge that you cannot find in books is shared from one generation to the other and often celebrated with friends and good food.
And as if this was not enough, even my holidaytrips always end up visiting e.g. hotshops in Denmark or glasscenter like Nový Bor, CZ.
Right now you can find me developing glass at the glastower in Gernheim, Germany.
So the work with this fascinating, moving, freezing, fragile material makes addictive.
And even if there is so much produced in glass already, there is still a lot to discover!!
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