GANT GLASS

Daily Art Muse listing, article in Glass Network (UK) magazine

October 16, 2010 in Blog Posts, New Press | Leave a comment

Some recent press activity: Daily Art Muse recently wrote a posting about my work, causing the biggest demand in a single day for the video on this site. To see what they said, click here and then have a look at the site, it is a great source of interesting handcrafted work. Daily Art Muse.

I just finished writing a short article about my preparatory process for drawings, which appears in Glass Network magazine in December- this is the UK Contemporary Glass Society’s magazine, published quarterly.

Special announcement: married!

October 1, 2010 in Blog Posts | Leave a comment

Anne Gant and Pinaki Ghatak were married in a “small, sensible Dutch wedding” on Oct 1, 2010 in Amsterdam.

New small works -July

July 18, 2010 in In the studio | Leave a comment

Here are some quick studio shots of just-completed work, I hope you will check back to see them once they are cozily settled in a gallery, because they always look nicer when they are photographed correctly- these photos were taken on the day they came out of the glassblowing studio. This blog is a chance to see behind the scenes and to see the newest thing when it is “fresh”, so here they are!:

“The Visitor Epergne”
“The Winged Epergne”

both 30 in high by 22.25 inches wide

“Residual Sparkle”
and a detail shot…
30 in high x 44.5 inches wide

“Epergne for the Wanderer”
26.25 inches high x 19 inches wide

These new small pieces are destined for New York.

Work sold to Corning Museum of Glass- Rakow Library

July 18, 2010 in Blog Posts | Leave a comment

The Rakow Library in Corning, NY, which holds the Corning Museum of Glass collection for prints and paper works, has just acquired 3 of my drawings for their archive. Tina Oldknow, the Corning Museum of Glass Curator of modern glass, visited the Vrij Glas studio last week.

It has been a busy month, which is a surprise for the summer! - even more new pieces have been sold, and there are whispers of some shows for the fall around the US and here in the Netherlands…so I’m going to be hard at work on some new pieces.

Show at Exhibit A

June 25, 2010 in Art exhibitions, Blog Posts | Leave a comment

Now showing 10 glass pyrographies at Exhibit A in Corning New York through July 10, 2010.
Also in the show are:

Mahine Rattonsey
http://www.rattonsey.com/, a lampworking sculptor from New York State (this is our third show together!)

Nancy Sutcliffe
http://www.nancysutcliffe.co.uk/, who is in Dubai, and does exquisite engravings (just look at her site)

Jacqueline Cooley
http://www.jaquelinecooley.com/ from the UK whose color-smart fused glass objects just got her a spot on the British Glass Biennale

Also on display are Candace Gawne’s glowing plasma sculptures.

http://www.luminousartworks.com/

I hope you will have a chance to look at their work as well- so many good artists are hard at work making real, original unique objects- it’s good to appreciate them, even if it’s only via a webpage!