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By Vera Liskova (1924 - 1985)
Czechoslovakia, Prague
1977
Item number: 79.3.14
Flameworked borosilicate glass
Photo by Wayne Stratz

In Czechoslovakia one remarkable woman, Vera Liskova, elevated borosilicate lampworking into a fine art. Her large, striking, abstract sculptures captured the imagination of art critics and collectors during the 1970's until her untimely death in 1979. Liskova's influence can be seen today in the work of several prominent East European lampworkers including the Poles Paulina Komorovska and Anna Skibska who make large, fragile, austere sculpture composed of impossibly thin pieces of glass assembled into a greater whole.

www.artofvenice.com/art/Lampwork1.htm

A client asked Wayne to interpret a photo meaningful to her husband, in stained glass.

Wayne was commissioned to create a piece inspired by the studio of a Japanese artist. The commissioner took this photo of the gift opening.

Wayne was commissioned to create a piece inspired by the studio of a Japanese artist. The commissioner took this photo of the gift opening. He recognized his tea kettle on the fire right away.