Andrew Shea

After 35 years working with glass, I still walk into the studio with eagerness and anticipation. Knowing that I will use my skills to breathe life into the glass to create works of art, is incredibly stimulating. Glass is the best material for expressing creative ideas, because the possibilities it offers are never ending. As I have worked the glass over the years, I am impressed with how much I continue to learn. The techniques and applications seem limitless, and it has become painfully obvious that I will run out of time on earth before I run out of ideas. I spend my time with glass pursuing difference and personal perfection in form and design. I enjoy this exploration. Nothing makes me happier than when a piece of glass I have made takes my breath away as I remove it from the annealed. That’s a tall order, considering I make 20 to 450 pieces a week. There are times when I am so inspired by a day’???s work that I can hardly wait too return to the studio the next day to see the results and begin working again. Glass is perpetual that way, each day with it, each experience with it stimulates ideas