{"product_id":"suzanne-kindland-green-blue-hand-blown-art-glass-vase","title":"SUZANNE KINDLAND Handblown ICEFIRE Studio Art Glass Green Blue Mottled Vase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eHand blown art glass vase by Suzanne Kindland, a resident contemporary artist at Icefire Glassworks in Cannon Beach, Oregon.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKindland is known for a painterly style that has been described as \"building a Monet-like painting\" within the walls of the glass. Her work often draws inspiration from nature, utilizing deep earth tones, vibrant colors, and organic forms that reflect qualities of water and light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eMeasures 10 1\/2\" tall x 5 1\/2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eSigned and dated 2011 at base.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eExcellent condition, no chips, cracks, or repairs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e10823-163\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eAs found on Icefire Glassworks site: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eome years ago, Suzanne Kindland dreamed she was suspended in a pillar of fire. By turns in the flame and of it, she danced to its rhythms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eShortly after that, she\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003ebegan an intense search for her medium. She raced from her office job to chorus practice, to theater rehearsals, to volunteer work with a local arts association. Then it was on to Portland to see a friend who was sculpting marble. She wondered what it would be like to be more intensely involved with the arts, to not simply watch art being made, but to make her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"In the way that soft thoughts have of becoming solid, life presented me with a chance to do just that: to explore form, to learn color, to play with fire in a way that is anything but peripheral.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eDancing in the flames, I learn the ways of glass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eCoing rather than forcing, with the glass as my partner, we bring forth objects reminiscent more of water than of fire: cool, smooth forms that reflect light as a pond does, sculptures that bend the light as a ripple does, quiet creations that transmit the light as does the stillest pool.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e10823-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Vault by Gary Germer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45437651452080,"sku":"10823-163","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0469\/5343\/1203\/files\/IMG_0370_09d2b660-d619-44e2-ad46-6832efe79bb1.jpg?v=1783290351","url":"https:\/\/shop.garygermer.com\/products\/suzanne-kindland-green-blue-hand-blown-art-glass-vase","provider":"The Vault by Gary Germer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}