Artist: Mark Hamilton
Business name: Solstice Glass
Location: Eugene, OR

Website & Blog:
Solstice Glass
Solstice Glass blog
Mark has graciously offered a special discount to Jewelry&Beading readers: if you type BEADING into the box for the coupon code, Mark will give you 10% off your entire order before shipping.  This offer is valid through the last day of November 2009!  Thanks, Mark!
Mark, how do you describe your work?
My work is inspired by natural organic forms and colors, and I work with borosilicate glass because the color palette has more of an organic feel than soft glass does.  Most of my designs are scenes such …read more

Glass artist: Linda Steider
http://steiderstudios.wordpress.com
http://www.steiderstudios.com
http://www.1000markets.com/shops/steiderstudios
Visit Linda’s blog and you’ll be enchanted by the lovely photos of flowers, glass, and the outdoors.  It’s pretty easy to see some of the things that inspire Linda, that’s for sure!   A visit to her website shows you immediately how many different ideas she likes to play with.  Glass is a never-ending source of delight for Linda.

Linda writes:
I love glass! I love wearing it, how it feels against my skin. It can feel light & airy like my earrings or more substantial like my chunky glass bracelets. The pendants I make are everything …read more

Nancy Tobey is a busy busy glass artist!  Her teaching and show schedule are enough to make anyone tired, but that is after she has spent countless hours making all of these gorgeous little gems of glass.
Nancy writes:
Fourteen years ago, my passion for glass led to me wonder if it was possible to make glass beads by hand. I soon found out, not only that is was possible, but that it was grand fun as well.
Over the years my glass love continued to grow and evolve. I went from collecting jelly jar glasses to telephone pole insulators to …read more

Artist: Gail Kops
Websites:
Beadles
Beadles etsy shop

An age old question – is the moon made of green cheese? – maybe – but in my world it is made of glass.
Glass art, especially the lampworking variety is a fascinating mode of expression. It is dynamic, reactive, and absolutely fascinating. Its properties, when heated with a torch, sometimes produce unbelievable special effects and chemical reactions. These chemical reactions are the key components in creating the landscapes in the moon focals I create.
In the moon focals, I use components that mix to create 3D landscape effects, cubic zirconias for definite stars, sparkly …read more