Art Glass

I work in the copper foil method of stained glass, often describing glass as my “paint.” Limited by the unique aspects of each sheet, I purposefully break out pieces to illuminate details within my designs, which are enhanced by the glass.

Blackwater Arts Logo of an American yellow water lily in stained glass with stylized leaves and iridescent black water behind it.The cartoon/pattern designed for Blackwater Arts Logo.

Waterlily I
14.5″ diameter
2021

Abstract Floral Pattern for front door.

Abstract Floral Front Door Panel
2023

The Commission’s design is based on a carving from an heirloom rocking chair that was over 100 years old.

Aloha Calling, art glass window of a boat with two figures leaving a dock with the island of O'ahu in the distance.

Aloha Calling
24.5″ x 48.5″
2022

Exhibiting at Henry Fine Arts Gallery

Stand alone stained glass window portraying kayaking trips down Porters Crossing in Pocomoke, MD

Porters Crossing: The Tides That Bind*
40″ x 80″ framed
2018

Selected Public Work for the 2018 National Folk Festival, Salisbury, MD
*Sold – Private Collection, Baltimore, MD

Top Panel Porters Crossing: The Tides That Bind, of two kayakers in the distance nearly finishing the route, a Heron flying across the water after they passed and a snake slithering across a felled tree in the foreground.
Art glass window with a turtle on a lily pad in the lower right-hand corner and a fallen tree in the upper right-hand corner
Seasonal Reflections, Glass panel of the royal palace in Japan reflection of the palace along the water.
Kimono: The Wandering, A glass kimono depicting cherry blossoms drifting in the sky across a landscape, barely touching the ground with an abstracted floral pattern on a gold obi. Freeform window
Geisha Praying, 14" x 24", 2004, Sold, Private Collection, Glass panel of a Geisha praying at a temple wearing a purple kimono with a green landscape around the temple
Glass panel of a Geisha doll with a hand drum, wearing a red kimono and a golden sun rays in the background
  1. Kimono: The Wandering
    approx. 24″ x 36″, 2004
    A glass kimono depicting cherry blossoms drifting in the sky across a landscape, barely touching the ground with an abstracted floral pattern on a gold obi. Freeform window
  2. Seasonal Reflections, Tokyo Imperial Palace
    36″ x 24″, (Designed in 2008, produced in 2016)
    A glass panel of the royal palace in Japan, reflecting the palace along the water
  3. Geigsha Praying
    14″ x 24″, 2004
    Sold, Private Collection
    Glass panel of a Geisha praying at a temple, wearing a purple kimono with a green landscape around the temple
  4. Geisha Doll
    14″ x 24″, 2004
    Glass panel of a Geisha doll with a hand drum, wearing a red kimono, and golden sun rays in the background
A glass oval panel of two black cats with a red ball of yarn, 2018
An Ode to Frank, A Glass panel of a circle divided geometrically with three glass jewels of various sizes and colors in strategically placed locations
  1. 2 Black Cats,
    2018
    Commission designed during apprenticeship at D&D Stained Glass
    A glass oval panel of two black cats with a red ball of yarn
  2. An Ode to Frank,
    24″ x 14″
    2005
    A Glass panel of a circle, divided geometrically, with three glass jewels of various sizes and colors in strategically placed locations

Alternative Glass Work

Triptych work of art, Where Do You Stand? A glass mobile of a window you can break, a graphic of glass breaking questioning where you stand, a mosaic on the floor of someone punching up to shatter the glass window

Push for Equality: Where Do You Stand?
2019

Triptych work of art, Bottom: Mosaic, Middle: Mirrored Graphic, top: Glass sculpture.

A glass mobile of a window you can break by pressing on a piston shaped like a fist. A graphic of glass breaking that questions where you stand in the glass ceiling experience. Are you breaking the ceiling, or standing in the way of someone? A mosaic on the floor of someone punching up to shatter the glass window

Push For Equality: Where do You Stand? Kinetic glass sculpture where you push a fist that goes through a window, essentially breaking it.

Top: Push For Equality: Where Do You Stand?
Kinetic glass sculpture where you push a fist that goes through a window, essentially breaking it.

Push for equality, stained glass mobile that shatters the glass ceiling when you push up on the piston
Push plate with glass mosaic of a fist and the word PUSH tattooed on the fingers attached to piston that moves the mobile
Where Do You Stand Floor Mosaic is of a figure pushing up at you, are you standing on them, or in their way or are you them?
Stained glass clenched fist with fingers wrapped in a fist shape
Stained glass fist with layered tinned illustrations that make it look like the back of a hand.
  1. Image of the mobile at its pre-breaking point
  2. Close-up of the piston knuckle push mosaic
  3. Mosaic of a person punching the glass ceiling, trying to break it
  4. Large versions of the front and back of the fist. A smaller version is attached to the piston and goes through the mobile, breaking the glass ceiling