Variations on a Theme

 This is a 14" square Challah tray commission. The client wanted something large and simple....no words just geometric symbols.  We played with a few ideas....none of them landed.  I shared a photo of the Tree of Life-themed work I had done recently and it struck a chord. 

Client and artist are both happy!

TREE of LIFE...NEW LIFE

 A little one named Ezra came into this world. This is a gift he won't outgrow. If you look carefully among the leaves you'll see his name in Hebrew.

Tree of Life- fused glass bowl

The writing on the leaves doesn't show up well in the photo but the names are there! I am pleased with how it looks. The white rim is not part of the bowl...just the rim of the slumping mold.

New Commission for Great Grandma!

The base disc is pre-fired. A second tack fuse firing follows 

Each leaf bears the name of a grand or great grandchild! Once the tree is tack fused, the disc will be slumped into a bowl

I've had a bit of fun (and challenge) working on this latest commission. It is a 14" iridized cobalt blue bowl with the tree of life as its theme.

There are 27 leaves, each with the name of a grandchild (in green and red) or great grandchild (yellow and orange)

Depicted here are two of the stages before firing....the finished bowl will appear in my next post!