Jerry Barnett

Care, patience, love and high heat combine to produce kiln-formed glass art in my one person studio. The inspiration for the art arrives from many sources. Each makes a journey inward and becomes altered and combined before emergin in sketches which are then refined to a design drawing. I try to make each element of the design ‘count’. I do not mind complexity in the design, but do seek to avoid ornamentation. Hand cut pieces of sheet glass are carefully fitted to create the design in glass, a process which may also incorporate glass chips, poweders and rods. The color is not paint, but is in the glass itself. The composition is then placed in a kiln to be melted into a solid piece in a carefully controlled firing that reaches a temperatur of around 1500? . In almost all cases, there will be additional firings as the piece is modified to its final form.