Suite Henry

Today I recieved some press from my favourite Toronto-based design blog, Suite Henry. If you have never visited this blog before, you are surely in for a treat! M is always posting the most inspiring articles filled with wonderful masterpieces of art, design and typography. Check it out for yourself at:

suitehenry.blogspot.com

City of Craft Update

Wow, what a great first day at City of Craft! For those of you who didn't get a chance to make it out yet, don't worry the show will be continuing tomorrow from 11am-5pm. I always love to see the great work from all of the talented participants. What a treat! Some of my faves include the always talented Shannon Gerard's crotcheted cacti and hearts, Holly Hobby's mushroom terrariums, Doublenaut's beer screenprints and Rachel Robichaud's sculpture displays to name a few. I will take some pictures tomorrow and share them with you.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Patrick

City of Craft 2010

Please come visit me at City of Craft 2010!

The event will be taking place on Saturday Dec. 18th and Sunday the 19th at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St. W. (at Dovercourt Rd.). It is sure to be an amazing show (just like last years') filled with crafty vendors and cool craft installations. I will be there displaying some of my glass, checking out other vendors' wares and enjoying the atmosphere. There is more info at the City of Craft blog:

cityofcraft.blogspot.com

and at the official website:

cityofcraft.com

Hope to see you there!

Workshop Works

I would like to take this opportunity to showcase the work of some of my students from my recent Introductory Kiln Cast Glass workshop. This workshop was part of the ARTiculate Youth Arts Program.

















I'm so proud of all of you for creating such beautiful pieces and being so friendly and inquisitive. I must also give a big thank you to Melissa and Neda for making this happen! Thanks to Alex as well for so kindly allowing me to use her kiln to fire these pieces.

Impressive artworks no?

Prototypes

Here is a sneak peek at some early prototypes for a secret project that I am working on:

GAAC Conference in Montreal

Hello All,

Last month I attended the wonderful GAAC Conference in beautiful Montréal, Québec. It was an amazing conference and I had the pleasure of sharing a presentation about my work and my experiences with glass as part of the recent graduate's panel along with Karine Demers, Laura Sasseville, Steven Tippin, Brad Turner, and Rachael Wong.

Here are some photos I took of an exceptional goblet making demonstration by Patrick Primeau taken at the Espace Verre hotshop:

And here is a photo of Anthony Schafermeyer at work during his demonstration of the murrine and incalmo techniques:

And one final photo of Laura Donefer being interviewed by a television crew during her Glass Fashion Show at the Montréal Science Centre:

I really enjoyed my stay in Montréal but most of all I enjoyed meeting new friends and spending time with some old ones! All of the demos and lectures that I attended were outstanding and I am very thankful to all of the GAAC members, the people at Espace Verre and all others who organized, participated in, helped out at, attended, and hosted this very successful conference! I must also thank my friends Lauren and Drew for being such gracious hosts that weekend.

Thank You!

New Vases

Hi, sorry for neglecting this blog for so long. I would hate to think that it takes an earthquake and thousands of police, protesters, and numerous world leaders to get me to update my blog, but apparently that is the case. Those of you reading this in Toronto will know what I'm talking about.

Anyway here are a couple photos of some new work, I hope you enjoy them!

I will post again soon to talk about my adventures at this year's GAAC Conference in Montreal.

Later!

Teal Blue

My Father's favourite colour!

I achieved this gradation by overlaying two shades of concentrated glass colour over one another. I enjoy watching the different textures and patterns that the silver foil creates as it disperses while the glass is inflated.

One interesting thing about working with hot glass is that the colour always looks different while it is hot than it will look at room temperature. With certain colours you can roughly tell what it will look like cold, but others look completely different when they are around 600 degrees celcius and up. I think this phenomenon is more common when working with opaque glass. This particular vase looked bluer on the blowpipe, but not drastically so.

While I'm on the topic of colour, I would like to mention that I listened to an interesting documentary about Synesthesia on the radio tonight. I had never heard of this condition before, but it was fascinating to learn about it! You can listen to the program here.

New Work

Here are some images of things that I have been working on recently: