I am excited, and grateful to announce a new Gallery presence in Houston, Texas beginning this March. I will be joining esteemed portrait painter, and friend, Patrick Palmer at Winter Street studio studios, #B9.
I will be there 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.
These are elegant glass vessels, that reflect the flowers, shapes and colors, in our garden. 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.
Custom orders are now being accepted.
Contact info:
alheilmanart@gmail.com
My wife and I are grateful to live on a lake, and be surrounded by water and nature.
The sunsets and sunrises are the energy, and the stimulus that I use when developing my art.
My enamel work is also developed in a similar way from nature.
The glass work is produced with 3 different processes.
One is made from hand pulled murrini, and the other designed from the color patterns of nature and the last is a hybrid of the first 2 processes.
I then form these interpretations into vessels, which are then hand finished.
Namaste
Al
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.
I am producing new vessels all the time. My studio also does custom commissions.
New Murrini vessels are being developed. Each one is individual,
This large Iris vessel and custom made brass's stand were donated to the Bejeweled Auction for the The Center for Success and independence, in Houston.
The Center for Success and Independence (TCSI) is an adolescent residential and intensive outpatient treatment center providing evidence-based therapy for teens with substance abuse and mental health issues.
In times of crisis and challenge, we give teens and their families a place to turn to for help, putting them on the road to recovery.
The Auction is in Houston on February 16 @ 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm. Contact them to place a bid.
So glad to support such a great cause.
10.5 tall x10wide x10 wide
This large vessel will sit on its own or in the stand.
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