Trompe L'Oeil
By Janet Parkhurst
This is a glass blog, so before I launch into trompe l’oeil, I will say something about glass. In Readfield, Maine, there is a building called the Union Meeting House....
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Bottle Buildings!
By Janet Parkhurst
I was recently asked if I had ever seen the Bottle Houses of Prince Edward Island. “Never did,” I responded. “I’ll Google it.” When I searched for “bottle houses,” I...
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Current Artists
By Janet Parkhurst
I have a habit of folding over pages in magazines that I want to go back and look at again. When I read the March/April 2019 Glass Art Magazine recently,...
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Happy Birthday, Marc Chagall!
By Janet Parkhurst
Marc Chagall, one of the great artists of our time, would have been 132 on July 7 this year. He was born in the Russian Empire and worked with paint...
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Tiffany Aventurine - A Celebration!
By Janet Parkhurst
How beautiful is this VASE!? (I FEEL LIKE I COULD JUST POST THE PICTURE AND IT WOULD BE ENOUGH!) This vase was made c. 1910. It is Aventurine Lava Blown...
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Happy Birthday, Tiffany!
By Janet Parkhurst
Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City to Charles Lewis Tiffany and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. (He died in 1933). He attended Flushing Boarding School in New York...
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Artist Spotlight - Miriam Di Fiore
By Janet Parkhurst
This summer, July/August 2018 Glass Art Magazine did an article on Miriam Di Fiore. Her art jumped right off the page to me. Amazing! She was born in Buenos Aires,...
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THE TIFFANY CENSUS
By Janet Parkhurst
I just read an article about an effort to compile the locations that have or did have Tiffany windows. It is a giant challenge but certainly a worthy one. http://www.cambridge2000.com/tiffany/index.html...
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EGGBEATER JESUS GLASS FALLING
By Janet Parkhurst
This week I was waiting on customer who wants to do mosaic something that will be outside. When she asked for the correct products, I could not help but think...
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HEARST CASTLE
By Janet Parkhurst
In one of the articles I read about Oceanside Glass (the new owners of Specturm and Uroborus Glass) they mentioned that one of their first big breaks was getting to...
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ROOTS OF KNOWLEDGE.....Seriously—Prepare to be amazed!
By Janet Parkhurst
In celebration of Utah Valley University’s 75th anniversary in November of 2016, they presented a public art project done in stained glass called Roots of Knowledge. It is a very...
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IN THE BEGINNING—GLASS FACTS
By Janet Parkhurst
1840s—window glass took a step forward from the cylinder method to experiment with cast and rolled glass. This allowed larger sheets. 1800-1900s—John LaFarge and Louis C. Tiffany and glass chemist,...
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