RAYMOND — Galaxies swirl, waves crash and flowers bloom in one-inch glass art marbles, a marvel of color, depth and design by glass artist Jennifer Fuller of Infinitely Fearless Designs, who will be the featured artist at the Raymond Village Library through July 8, as part of a collaboration between the Raymond Village Library and the Raymond Arts Alliance to highlight the talents of local artists.
A “Meet the Artist” morning will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 1, at Raymond Village Library. Her work will be displayed inside the library, with pieces available for sale. The artist will demonstrate live glass torch work outside with family-friendly activities, including a glass art marble hunt. The rain date is June 8.
A continuing education student at Stained Glass Express, MECA, and now at the Studio at Corning Museum of Glass, Fuller has studied techniques in stained glass, fused glass, lampworking, and her true passion, torchwork, a process of melting and shaping molten glass using a torch flame to create intricate glass flowers, sculptures, and art marbles.
A simple stained glass bird piece, hung in the center of the exhibit is titled “Origin,” the first glass piece of her career as a glass artist. The placement of this piece is fitting, as fused glass plates and stained glass pieces radiate out from her origin piece, illuminating her artistic journey through the glass arts. Her pieces glow and shine with vibrant color, shapes, and textures. Glass cases throughout the library house smaller designs, including torchworked flowers, jewelry, and her masterwork, art marbles; these small wonders are intricate and beautiful, and demonstrate her talent for manipulating gold and silver fumes, sparking dichroic metals, and colored rods into sumptuous glass spheres
She said glass art is the perfect fusion of her interest in science and art, as the exacting practice of coloring and molding glass requires a balance of patience and speed, precision and vision, timing and temperature, and playing with the potential of fuming, air, viscosity, and design. To create pieces, she often starts with a hypothesis, considering how a number of variables such as melting speed, temperature, and the chemical makeup of her materials may influence and impact her final design.To see her pieces, once fully cooled after being created in up to 4,000 degree temperatures, is always an exciting moment for her.
PHOTO: Jennifer Fuller at work. (Submitted photo)
