What is art? This is a small question with big implications and the debate has raged since the word was invented! Artists, critics, scholars and virtually everyone else seems to have an opinion, and every opinion comes with an agenda.
The round(ish) mark on the bottom of a hand worked glass piece is left by the punty. The process goes like this: 1. Gather and blow First gather glass on the end of a pipe. Then blow the glass and
Update May 1, 2015: Shorelines Gallery has permanently closed. It was an honor to be featured in one of San Diego’s finest galleries. It is a loss to the community. June 8, 2011 Today I had the pleasure of meeting with the
Glass art in general hasn’t changed much over the centuries. Techniques & styles have stood the test of time and are still used in modern glass art studios today. What has changed… or more precisely, evolved… are the tools &
The craft of creating glass has been with us for millennia. It was first achieved in BC 3500’s! A simple start, perhaps even by accident, was with calciferous sand melting as a glaze. It wasn’t, however, until about 1600 BC
I’m Kevin Baker and my passion is glass blowing, an art that involves techniques and tools unchanged since their invention in Renaissance Italy. Since 2005, I have been experiencing the exhilaration of glass blowing at San Diego’s Spanish Village Art