Gallery:
English - Dansk
The main issue for me, working with glass, is painting.
To design and paint glass offers unique challenges both technically and visually. It's not simply painting on an ordinary surface, because the transparency provides an extra dimension.
I paint on the back of the object, so technically speaking, I have to think reverse. That means, what I normally would paint last, if it was on canvas or paper, I have to paint first.
In advance I have to know what the eye must catch first. Technically that can be a big challenge,- once I have done the painting and fired it, you can only tone the colour, make shadows and deepen the colours not add special effects such as gold, red or other pure colours.
I paint and fire the object many times typically 5-7 times in order to complete the motif and to insure as much intensity and depth as possibly in the colours.
The temperature of firing is 580 °C and as on coat of paint is fired, there is no way to ever alter it again.
As all the coatings are fired into the glass the painting is imperishable.
I make my glass-objects with smooth or rough surfaces as I slump the glass in a steelmould or in a mould (a relief) I make of stonewear clay.
It depends on the theme how much I simplify my motif. In some I simplify the painting into some lines, in others, I mainly focus on colour intensity and many lairs in the painting. It all depends on which story the picture is telling...In every case the harmony must be present. The painting and the glass-object must form inviolable whole.
On the gallery pages you can see my work and read about the themes.