light made solid

The other day I came across some very pretty stained glass work by an artist named Anne Ryan Miller. Her work deals extensively with wildlife and environmental imagery. You can find out more on her about page, or by having a look at her galleries. Also on her about page, she has a bit of information explaining how she gets such great gorgeous detail in her images.

By using a metal overlay technique, I can hand-cut very intricate designs. Using landscape and wildlife motifs, I create a pictorial effect. By applying the metal on the front and back of opalescent glass, I can achieve an enormous amount of depth. By allowing the natural light to diffuse around the metal from the backside, I can obtain a shadowy, misty effect, allowing the front to display a tantalizingly strong silhouette. This is an original and unusual technique.