Using a variety of glass-working techniques, Violette pays homage to the garden through her sculpture. Watering cans, shovels and trowels transform from simple tools to beautiful artifacts, sand cast farmhouses oversee a neatly painted wood grid and ripe fruit rise up on pedestals of wood and steel. Soft layers of glass powder dusted over the surfaces of the work evoke dirt and earth crusted into the sides of the pots and the rough textures of rind and peel. She has studied with Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Pino Signoretto, Randy Walker and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, while attending courses at The Rhode Island School of Design, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, and Penland School of Crafts.
Artist's solo exhibition Crisp August 1st - 25th, 2010 Vetri | Seattle
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