Robin Schultes - "Sleeping Beauties" Glass Sculpture

Note: This item is individually crafted by the artist, slight variations in color and size may occur.

Robin Schultes - Toledo Artist

For the past few years I have begun to flamework more "off mandrel" (non-bead making) pieces. It all started with a class I took from the Italian soft glass flameworking maestro, Gianni Toso. He demonstrated how he made his figurines using the ever temperamental soft glass rods. It was fascinating. I thought how wonderful it would be....to be able to create sculptural pieces on the torch that would allow my idea and feelings to be documented more fully through glass.

Wanting to make a full figurine proved more difficult with pieces breaking due to the thickness and size. So I scaled back to focus on the head. With constant practice, the series of women emerged into presentable works of art....

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