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My most recent experience in re-inventing my artistic practice, awakening the deadened tendrils of expression – was a foray into glass painting this past week at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, in a week-long intensive. For a number of years I worked in layered transparencies, painted, printed, colored gels – using frosted, colored and clear plastics, all backlit with lightboxes – or neon. But in terms of public art and getting commissions I did not have a permanent approach to working with materials. So I thought glass painting and the application of printed material onto glass would be a perfect match! How arrogant of me, thinking I could learn such a complex approach easily, having developed the former methods over a period of years.Now where I’m left is in an inquiry. Clearly what there is to do is keep drawing as illuminated brush work, combined with mechanically/digitally made imagery, is where my expression lies. I’m working on not making any decisions too quickly (as I often love to).
Nothing like an intensive workshop for a quick (and sometimes brutal) start-up!
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