Glass

I have had a few chapters in my life and career with glass. Making Marbles and working my lampworking torch have carried me through most of that time.

Have a look at my current work and work of the recent past here on my site for sale. Read on for some more information about some of my past work and experience.

The concept of melting glass and glassblowing grabbed me as a young boy while watching craftsman at; Henry Ford Village,MI , Cedar Point Park, OH, and Williamsburg, WV. I had a toy chemistry set, and spent many hours melting the glass tubes and rods over the little alcohol lamp. Later while studying chemisty at college, I became involved as a lab preparation student and teaching assistant and worked at technical glassblowing. It was during this time my Father taught me in the basics of Stained glass window construction.

When moving from Michigan to Wisconsin for Graduate school, I began making stained glass and street vending in Madison on State Street and adjacent to the Dane County Farmers Markets on the Capitol Square. I opened a stained glass and wood art studio some time after that, and by the following year had expanded to a stained glass supply shop as well.

That began a long period of making custom stained glass windows and lamps, glass repair and restoration and teaching stained glass. Early in that timeframe I did some studies and apprenticeship in stained glass, Tiffany lamp reproduction and glass blowing. Some time after this was established my stained glass suppliers began to carry some Italian glass rods for torchworking. So putting together some of my own equipment, various plumbing and cutting torches I began making beads and marbles as time allowed.

In 1998, I had moved Blue Mounds, a small town west of Madison and began building a larger studio behind my home, and over the next few years, migrated my business to this new location. Closing out my stained glass supply business to focus on custom glass work and lampworking.

During those many years I phased out the stained glass to focus on beads and marbles, all the while continuing my sales at art shows and as a Madison WI street vendor.

Many may know me as marble man from the Dane county market, but many more may know me as the vendor who make clothing and canvas totes. I do a very home spun silk screening method, with tried and true water based acrylic inks on cotton fabrics and canvas bag and totes.

I am Currently vending at the Dane County Farmers Market, and looking to move into more Renaissance, Viking, and Rendezvous type fairs.