The Artists of Sixth Street Gallery
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name: Peggy Bird media: fused glass more: www.peggybird.com "I started working with glass because I wanted a set of square dessert plates and couldn't find any I liked. Six years and a dozen classes later, I have long had my plates. What I also have is an addiction. Like a fly in a bead, I'm trapped in amber. But I'm also trapped in cobalt blue. And in sunflower.             Cranberry.                      And aventurine green." Read More	Patches of Spring
Autumn Leaves	Still Life For Anita
left: Tickled Pink, middle: Well, I Never, right: If You're Going to San Francisco
Sedona	Perennial

"Glass has fascinated people for millennia. Its unique structure allows the material to capture, transmit and reflect light and color like no other substance. It has flow and movement. It takes shape in a kiln when slumped over a mold or with the merest breath when blown. This almost magic material has mesmerized me since I was a child and saw stained glass windows in an old church. For most of the past decade I have worked with glass to create functional and art pieces that showcase the beauty of the material.

For design inspiration, I have only to look around me. Sometimes I find a fabric pattern in a shop. Often it is something in nature, like a leaf or a landscape. Travel always inspires me. From other lands and cultures I learn new color palettes and indigenous motifs. Whether I’m returning home from half way around the world or just down I-5, I bring back scribbled sketches on scraps of paper, snapshots and postcards full of design ideas.

I also learn from fellow artisans and other artists, whatever the medium. The colors, shapes and movement of painting, photography and fiber art all have informed my sense of what is possible with glass. So, with design ideas all around me and an ever-increasing range of colors available from modern art glass manufacturers, I have a lifetime of possibilities for projects."

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