Angelo Fico

My current work involves patterns of color in glass. I strive for clean forms consisting of a simple pattern of lines that becomes more complex as it wraps around the piece. The transparent colors blend to create depth and pattern as you look through the vessel. Each stripe in a vase starts out as an individual glass rod called a piece of cane. After making the glass canes I lay out a pattern of them on a steel plate. This pattern is heated up until the cane melt together into a sheet. I then pick up the pattern of glass canes on a blowpipe and start to gradually shape and blow out the vessel. No molds are used in the process. As my work has evolved over the last 20 years my passion for glass and the use of traditional Venetian techniques has allowed me to create a dynamic body of work.