Foliage

Kiln formed float glass
Created at Pilchuck summer 2025

In May of 2025 I set off by myself to take part in the first session of summer classes at Pilchuck School of Glass. It took an insightful and fun class led by Lisa Pettibone and Josh Hargrave about creative slumping. For a week we spent as much time as we could in the kiln room and shop experiementing with our projects (although there was only so much waiting you could do when waiting for kiln programs to finish! )

You can see the process photos on the lefthand side. This piece I squeezed in on the side of the other projects because I wanted to utitlize all of the glass that we can access to. Isn’t this a wonderful color palette? Being surrounded by forest and nature for a week inspired the colors of this piece and I think it was a great side project to do kiln work -- something I enjoy doing but don’t often get to do. I randomly cut out curved pieces of each color and then fit them together as best as I could. The result was this leaf-looking piece then which I slumped in the kiln over an arrangement of kiln furniture. This is a fun and simple decor piece that looks great on a console table.