My wife and I are grateful to live on a lake.  I love living in balance and experiencing nature. This large enamel work is titled "Passages".  It relates to the journey my life has taken to live on the lake.

My art relates to how nature, color, and light all combine to create a visceral response. 

My process of creating:

Enameling and Glass Works

Both require many steps, and time.  The end result is magical with the fabulous colors and depth that only glass and enamels can provide.

Enameling  requires a metal substrate.  This can be gold, silver, or most commonly copper. Once it is fabricated , the enamel (glass) powders are fused on to the metal at very high temperatures, and then cold-worked. I often work fine silver into the enamels at high temperatures.

My Glass vessels are developed with the glass being both the support and the color.

It takes a great deal of time and several long fusing schedules when you work with glass.  Each fusing time can  be from 24 hours or up to 5 days long.

Some work can requires up to 6 different fusing/cold working steps.

This is done with wet glass saws, and diamond flat laps, sandblasting or hand finishing.

You can read my blogs, to learn  more about how this magic  happens.

Celebrating Spring !

These are  elegant glass vessels, that reflect the flowers, shapes and colors, found in our gardens.  They are each alive with divine color and a small bit of attitude. Each vessel is custom formed, with a different shape and final size.

Height dimensions are variable depending on what you wish from 3 inches to 14 inches tall.

Winter Street Gallery

I share a gallery space with the esteemed artist and painter, Patrick Palmer,  at Winter Street studio studios, #B9 in Houston, Texas.

We are open on the second Saturday of every month from 12 noon to 5 pm, and by appointment. 

Sawyer Yards is a collection of several studio spaces including Winter Street Studios.  It brings together the largest collection of working artists, and studios  in the United States.

I  have been a  woodworker and woodturner most of my adult life. I can no longer turn big bowls and make large furniture due to my back. 

I am letting this collection of tools and wood blanks free to have a new life with others, rather than sit on a shelf. 

 If you click on the link below it will take you to the eBay store to view the collection I have for sale.

Ebay AL Heilman art store

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