Al Heilman Art: Artist & Blog

The process

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.

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.

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.

Murrini glass necklace set in Sterling silver.

Balance

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Elegant glass Murrini pendant/ necklace with a textured hand made sterling silver bezel setting. The necklace has a feeling of balance. It can be rotated 5 different ways to add balance to your mood and style.

It comes with a leather necklace.

It is shown with the 16 inch cable Sterling silver necklace. This is a a separate item.

The glass has a matte finish.

2 x 3.25 inches

Spring 1.0 vessel

Spring 1.0

$1,300.00

This is a tall fused glass vessel that relates to the colors of the Spring at the Lake. This work combines several types of custom murrini into a fabulous drop ring vessel. This was the first of 3 Spring Vessels. The outer surface is sandblasted and sealed. The interior is clear glass and it is food safe.

11.5 long x 9.5 tall x 6 wide (inches)

Spring 2.0 vessel

Spring 2.0

$1,800.00

This is a spectacular fused glass vessel that relates to the colors of the Spring at the Lake. This work combines several types of custom murrini int a fabulous drop ring vessel. This was the second of 3 Spring Vessels. The interior is clear glass and it is food safe. This vessel has a thin elegant organic rim.

12 long x 9.5 tall x 6 wide (inches)

Spring 3.0 vessel

Spring 3.0

$1,100.00

This is a colorful fused glass Murrini vessel that relates to the colors of the Spring at the Lake. This work combines several types of custom made Murrini into a fabulous drop ring vessel. This was the third of 3 Spring Vessels. The outer surface is sandblasted and sealed. The interior is clear glass and it is food safe. This vessel has a cold worked rim.

The process

Winter Street Gallery

Celebrating Spring !

Murrini glass necklace set in Sterling silver.

Balance

Spring 1.0 vessel

Spring 1.0

Spring 2.0 vessel

Spring 2.0

Spring 3.0 vessel

Spring 3.0

Glass Vessels

Bumble Bee Vessel

Color flow Vessel

Elegant Glass vessel with a custom stand

Fall Spirits Vessel

Fall Vessel

Feathers and Shells murrini vessel

Feeling Pink Vessel

Life's Journeys Vessel

Morning Sunrise Iris Vessel

Murrini flower vessel

Orange Nature flow vessel

Oyster vessel

Saturday Morning Play Vessel

Sea Flowers Vessel

Spring color Vessel

Spring Vessel

Sunset splendor Vessel

Texas Sky Glass Vessel

The Blues Vessel

Tree Trunk Murrini vessel

Tulip Vessel

Under the Sea Vessel

Wondering Thru the Trees Vessel

Enamel works

Garden 2.0 4 x 4 enamel mounted on a 6x6 pvc board

Passages

Monet's garden 2.0

A Rainy Day, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Birds in flight, 4 x 4 enamel mounted on a 6x6 pvc board

Togetherness, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Awakening, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Conversations, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Mother and Child, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Tides in , Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

A storm is brewing 6 x 6 enamel panels

Berkshires in the Fall 6 x 6 enamel panel

Caught in a snow storm 6 x 6 enamel panel

Garden 1.0 4 x 4 enamel mounted on a 6x6 pvc board

A day at the beach, Enamel on copper panel with eutectic fired fine silver

Walking in the Woods enamel pendant

Swiss Cheese Plique-à-jour pendant

Petals

Passages enamel pendant

Enamel Candy Necklaces

Berkshires on Fire

Travels

Rothko Reflections

Plasma Cut Copper Bowl

Morning Fire

Morning Bliss enamel

Morning Awakening

Homage to James Terrell's "Sky Spaces"

Hand-Formed Eutectic fired fine Silver and enamel Copper Bowl

Hand-formed copper bowl with enamel

Fold-Formed Enamel on Copper Bowl

Flight

Fire Fly

Enamel Coffee Table

Glass pendant/necklaces. More options are available under the glass jewelry option in the Menu tab.

16 inch Sterling Silver Black Ruthenium-Plated Diamond-Cut Round Neck Wires

Seaside Murrini and blue colored glass pendant

Rose and White Fused Glass Stunning pendant

Stacked Murrini Fused Glass pendant

Reversible Green and Blue engraved Murrini Sandblasted Fused Glass pendant

Reversible Green and Blue Murrini Sandblasted Fused Glass pendant

Reversible Blue and White Murrini Sandblasted Fused Glass pendant

Reversible tan Murrini Sandblasted Fused Glass pendant

Reversible Murrini Sandblasted Fused Glass pendant