Over the last few months, I was fortunate to be able to take part to a new masterclass organised by Narcissus Quagliata, one of the most significant contemporary artists in glass. I already talked about this class in a previous post, and showed some of the things Narcissus has taught me. In this post, I will show you some more things.

My participation was generously supported by a Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) Continue Creating 2022 grant managed by the Moreton Bay Regional Council, where I live. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Moreton Bay Regional Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

In the gallery above I have included some examples of laces I have made during the course. I already mentioned laces in the first post about this class; the laces there were mainly made with fine and medium frits. The laces in the gallery in this post, instead, are mostly done with medium and coarse frits. Laces make a great premade material to be incorporated into glass pieces.

Among the techniques we learned in the course, there has been also how to create lines with glass. I experimented with creating lines in different ways: with frits and powders, with stringers, and with a vitrograph kiln. A line is a key instrument for drawing and painting. A line creating with glass and heat is different from what you would do with a pen on a piece of paper, or even from what we can paint on glass with traditional stained glass methods. Some examples of the glass tests I created using lines (and combined with stackers and sliders, from the previous post) can be seen in the gallery below.

Then, I started combining the techniques I learned to make new glass creations. In the next two blog posts I will show you some of the final pieces I created.