About

For close to 30 years, I have been extending the work initiated by my father (RLS) who felt that combining foiled glass with faceted glass would allow for the creation of striking stained glass panels merging the virtues of both techniques. Unfortunately, I do not know what prompted him to incorporate both kinds of glass into a single panel. When he started his exploration in the early 1970’s his work consisted of mostly abstract designs but as his experience grew his panels became larger less abstract and considerably more complex  ( examples of which are included in the Gallery under RLS ).

I was impressed by his work but decided to take a somewhat different tack using simpler designs which depend more on color and contrast for effect. I also felt that utilizing a single piece of sheet stained glass for my backgrounds would reduce the number of lead lines and give a greater feeling of continuity within the panel. I also liked the fact that much of the glass that I used for my backgrounds is by itself often quite beautiful.

The header shows the central area of a panel including two pumpkins composed of faceted glass while the photograph at the bottom of the page shows a side view illustrating how the faceted glass is incorporated into the sheet glass. Four finished works hanging in my sun room, shown below, hopefully give some idea of the results of the fusion of the two kinds of glass. Review the Gallery for individual photographs of both my father’s and my work .

 

It is my intent in this site to illustrate the results of my effort and to share my thoughts on design, choice and preparation of the faceted glass, construction, framing and reinforcement.  It is my hope that this site will encourage others to explore the use of faceted glass for inclusion into their work.

I would like to add that I suspect that complex pieces of facetted glass such as the pumpkins, joined by epoxy rather than soldered foil ( see post on Foil and Solder and Nautilus ) could also be meaningfully incorporated into the epoxy matrix of a traditional faceted glass work.

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me.

I think that it is important to note that working with faceted glass results in the generation of significant quantities of both glass dust and chips so I strongly encourage you to review my posts on safety.