February 18-22, 2012
Saturday thru Wednesday
10:00am to 5:00pm each day
Absolutely all materials included.
Tuition $975
$450 due at registration.
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Contemporary Pate de Verre – 5 days with Alicia Lomné
Join us for a very special 5 day workshop led by contemporary Pate de Verre artist Alicia Lomné.
February 18 to 22, 2012 – Saturday thru Wednesday – 10:00am to 5:00pm each day. (Be prepared to learn a exciting new way of creating art in glass and especially expect to have FUN!)
Check out pics of the workshop Alicia led HERE at Hot Glass Houston last year.
Pate de Verre is an ancient and widely varied art form using glass powders and frits melted, fused and cast at different and specific temperatures to achieve a variety of results in glass that intoxicates the visual and tactile senses.
Alicia Lomné has developed her own unique style of Pate de Verre which can be described as alive with energy, whimsical, playful and effervescent with colors and shapes that pop and evoke emotion – just like Alicia herself!
Although Alicia’s own style is to work intuitively, she will provide you a solid base of technical information and a straightforward approach to Pate de Verre that can easily be accomplished in any home studio. In this class you will learn how to make open-faced molds to create thin walled glass forms. Using Bullseye Glass frits and powders you will learn several different methods of exact color placement. We will also cover the use of reinvestments (inclusions) in the mold. We will have class discussions covering firing schedules and the use of temperature to attain specific goals. By the end of this class you will feel confident in pouring a mold, packing it with glass, and then programming and firing in your own kiln.
Pate de Verre is a process which encourages patience but also lends itself to experimentation and unusual expression. You will end up with three or four finished pieces by the end of class. Expect to work hard while having incredible fun.
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About Alicia Lomné…
Alicia Lomné was born in Bastia, Corsica, France and now resides and has a studio in Langley, WA. She attended Swain school of Design and has also been educated at Penland School of Craft, Pratt, and California College of Arts and Crafts. Alicia was also an Artist in Residence at Bullseye Glass Company. Her mother is Keke Cribbs whom has been a great inspiration throughout her life. See more of Alicia’s works at Alicia Lomné – Glass Art – Pate de Verre.
From Cynthia Morgan’s Blog…
Most people employ pate de verre techniques (there are many) to create “classic” vessels, i.e., Art Nouveau/Art Deco stuff: Flowers, bugs, leaves, fish, birds, curly-haired Greek gods with grapes, that kinda thing. I love that stuff–I’d better, since that’s where I’ve been living lately–but it’s fascinating to see what happens when you head it in another direction, as Alicia does.
Alicia’s pate de verre is modern, simple, aesthetically pleasing and absolutely without guile. It also defies gravity (and is a heckuva lot faster than the methods I employ…)
Pate de verre, for those of you that don’t know, is probably one of the first techniques the ancients used to make glass objects, and it’s rediscovered about every other century. In most versions, the artist builds a mold in the shape he wants, packs it with crushed colored glass, and fires it. Pate de verre is French for “paste of glass,” which most people say refers to the glass/water/binder that’s often employed to stick it to the vertical sides of the mold.
In Lomné’s case, she’s making remarkably steep-sided forms, generally without cores, which means there’s a huge chance that the glass will fall away from the sides and into the bottom of the mold during firing. She does some very tight glass frit packing, calibrates the firing speed and temps to the quality of the pack, and slips in just under the gravity wire.
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