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
Crisp press release
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Under Cover
VC #55427
hot sculpted glass, mahogany, paint
10" x 15" x 5"
$2900
Transplant
VC #55430
hot sculpted glass, steel
14" x 5" x 5"
$1800
Forest Dwelling
VC #55429
hot sculpted & sand cast glass, mahogany
11" x 18" x 6.55"
$2800
Farm Dwelling
VC #55426
hot sculpted & sand cast glass, mahogany, acrylic paint
7" x 20" x 10"
$2800
Turf
VC #55428
hot sculpted glass, mahogany
7" x 7" x 7"
SOLD
Three Eggplants Still-Life
VC #55384
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
12" x 18" x 4.5"
$2400
Two Peaches Still-Life
VC #55379
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
10" x 10" x 4.5"
$1700
Five Green Pears Still-Life
VC #55377
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
12" x 26" x 4.5"
$3200
Five Carrots
VC #55378
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel
10" x 20" x 4"
$2700
Mother and Child (Two Red Apples)
VC #55380
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
12" x 10" x 4.5"
$1800
left to right:
Single Red Radish
VC #55382
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel
7" x 5" x 4"
$650
Single Scallion
VC #55383
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel
7" x 5" x 4"
$650
Single Carrot
VC #55381
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel
7" x 5" x 4"
$650
Single Red Bell Pepper Still-Life
VC #55424
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
10" x 7" x 4.5"
$850
Three Green Apples Still-Life
VC #55425
hot sculpted glass, stainless steel, mahogany
12" x 18" x 4.5"
SOLD
Photos: Jeff Baird and Laura Hoppenjans
